The Decline of British Sea Power

British Sea Power

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2005)
• Original Release Date: July 8, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rough Trade Us
• ASIN: B000XJ5U2G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #104,887 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
'The Decline Of British Sea Power' is the long awaited debut album (after 3 precursory singles on Rough Trade) for one of the most innovative, visionary bands of our time. Pigeonholers may be quick to note the passing resemblance to the more adrenalised elements of late 70's/early 80's new wave, from Joy Division to Magazine but there's also a sublime undercurrent of romantic nostalgia for wind-up wirelesses & discontinued bombers here too. Includes the previous singles 'Remember Me' & 'The Lonely' plus forthcoming singles 'Carrion' & 'Fear Of Drowning'. 11 tracks packaged in digipak format. Rough Trade. 2003. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars heard it and didn't really like it, June 28, 2003

By	doug (Rocky River, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Decline of British Sea Power (Audio CD)

I hope i am not alone in this opinion, because I have to be honest I really thought the music was fairly average. At first the album sounded really good, but after a couple listens the effect of the band just seemed to really wear thin. I love this kind of music, but in my opinion this band doesn't do it very well yet. A lot of the tracks reminded me of many bands all at once, which isn't exactly a bad thing is this day and age, but the songs really didn't hook me and actually turned me off in their quality some of the time. Maybe I will get it later, but as of right now it seems like the band is at an early point in their career and will progress on to bigger and better things. Not exactly disappointing, but nothing that I really will buy or seek out to listen to. In my opinion just stick with Interpol, Pavement, Joy Division, Nation of Ulysses, and the Sound if you want to listen to music that sounds like this, but is far superior in songwriting.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great new music, July 16, 2003

By	alexliamw (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Decline of British Sea Power (Audio CD)

The first thing that you hear on this CD is a 40-second Gregorian Chant entitled "Men Together Today". From this, its safe to say British Sea Power are an eccentric band. But eccentric is a word to be scared of in music recently, with bands like The Coral being "quirky" and "mad" for the sake of it and forgetting to make good music. British Sea Power tread the line between irritating and unspeakably cool - landing, fortunately, on the right side, even on tracks like the ramshackle, insistent "Apologies to Insect Life" which is a bit of a mess in an endearing way. But its not all like that: "Something Wicked" is glorious stately pop, and doomy, beautiful songs like "Fear of Drowning" and "The Lonely" evoke Joy Division and This Is My Truth-era Manics. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the glammed-up fuzz of "Remember Me" and "Carrion" recalls peak-period Bowie. Despite these many influences, only "Blackout" is anything less than consistently inventive. But at 14 minutes "Lately" is the album's stunner, a song for which the word epic seems too conventional.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most dynamic new interesting album of 2003!, July 22, 2003

By	William Bird "Breukelen" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Decline of British Sea Power (Audio CD)

British Sea Power are without a doubt the most interesting dynamic young band to come out in 2003. There is not a bad song on this album. The songs range from manic Pixies-ish pop to softer Belle and Sebastion ballads. But BSP know the meaning of dynamics and they put out some powerful rock. It may not be for the neogarage-rock fan of today but this is what Brit-pop should be! Buy it NOW!