Dwell [Import]

The Envy Corps | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 21, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal UK
• ASIN: B000RY00TA
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,802 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wires & Wool

2. Sylvia (The Beekeeper)

3. Keys To Good Living

4. Rhinemaidens

5. Before The Gold Rush

6. Walls

7. 99, 100

8. Rooftop

9. Party Dress

10. Story Problem

11. Baby Teeth

Editorial Reviews

2008 UK pressing of the debut album from the Iowa Alternative Rock/Pop outfit. Features the singles 'Wires & Wool', 'Rhinemaidens' and 'Sylvia (The Beekeeper'. Mercury.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Of 2008, July 7, 2008

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Alex NYC (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dwell (Audio CD)

Stumbling across The Envy Corps is one of the best accidents I've had in a while. I only had to listen to Dwell twice to know that it was going to be one of my favorite albums this year. Radiohead, The Verve, Modest Mouse, Jeff Buckley, Death Cab, Coldplay's first album--the comparisons to all and more will abound. But there's more going on here than just appropriating sounds from a bunch of other artists; this Ames, Iowa group (by way of the UK) works those likeable elements (beautiful melodies, great guitars and keyboards, interesting songwriting, creative handclaps and other experimental sounds, a voice that ranges up into falsetto, check check check) together to create something new that I actually needed in my music collection. It's rare to find an album where every single track so thoroughly delivers. Really, you say? Every track is that good? Yes, holy smokes yes. Get Dwell now.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, August 13, 2009

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Sean Flattery (Des Moines, IA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dwell (Audio CD)

Dwell is hands down one of my favorite albums and I've listened to it countless times. The big singles are Story Problem and Rhinemaidens. Both songs are incredibly catchy and serve an appetizer to the sonic feast that is the rest of the album. There's not a song here that I skip past, even after listening to it on endless repeat. There are also two b sides that didn't make the cut (Pip Pip and Pink Clouds), which is a shame since they're as good or better than any track enclosed. Both can be found on iTunes last I knew. If you like indie or melodic music, this is a must buy.

The Envy Corps is such a phenomenal group that I simply cannot understand how they aren't household names. If they keep putting out such high caliber music, they soon may be. Get in on the band, buy the album, and enjoy listing to what should be the next big thing.

Great songs include:
Rhindemaidens
Story Problem
Keys to Good Living
Before the Gold Rush
Walls
Sylvia
Wires & Wool

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, November 12, 2009

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muna0001 (MN) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dwell (MP3 Download)

This album blew my mind from beginning to end. Lyrics that can evoke so much emotion along to such unbelievable catchiness. This is a masterpiece in my mind.