Guess Sometimes Need Be Reminded How Much You Love

Magnetophone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: 4ad / Ada
• ASIN: B00004Y9V0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #699,035 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Oh Darlin'

2. Frankholmes Drive

3. Didn't I Blow Your Mind?

4. Californium

5. How I Learned to Love the Future

6. Medley

7. Air Methods

8. Why Stop When It Feels So Good?

9. Grateful, Aren't We?

10. So Much as Hold My Hand

11. Humdahh

12. Love Needs You

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An adventurous, but odd, release from the new 4AD, February 1, 2001

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Christopher Culver - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guess Sometimes Need Be Reminded How Much You Love (Audio CD)

Magnetophone, one of 4AD's latest signings after the departure of label chief Ivo Watts-Russell, specialize in a low-key brand of sonic noodling. Their first full album, I GUESS SOMETIMES I NEED TO BE REMINDED OF HOW MUCH YOU LOVE ME, is a unique achievement, but one that certainly wouldn't appeal to everyone.

Eschewing traditional instruments in favour of all manner of old electronic equipment, Magnetophone produce a fuzzy, vocal-less noise pop that seeks to answer the question "What is music?" While many of the songs here are unlistenable, other tracks such as "Oh Darlin'" and "Milk of the Commander" capture the listener's attention well. The album is all the more enjoyable to long-time 4AD fans because some of the tracks, especially "Frankenholmes Drive," evoke memories of the "Early Works" of Warren Defever (His Name is Alive).

I GUESS... is not for everyone. In fact, I suspect a lot of people will despair of 4AD because of it, but I'm glad to see a release this original. The album is all the more enjoyable because of the remarkable design by v23, which uses an envelope instead of a booklet in the CD case and whose back insert is only half-size.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not for everyone, but patience is rewarded, November 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Guess Sometimes Need Be Reminded How Much You Love (Audio CD)

This CD will definitely not appeal to all, but it does something most music doesn't even try to do these days: experiment. Magnetophone are never going to fit in anywhere--neither as "electronica," nor as "avant-garde," but this bizarre exploration of the limits of what music can actually be is worth a listen. There's not much point, either, in comparing it to Aphex Twin, My Bloody Valentine with more keyboards, etc. 4AD took a real chance here, and continues a great tradition of signing superior instrumental acts.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars somewhere between autechre and brothomstates, November 22, 2005

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bowery boy (seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guess Sometimes Need Be Reminded How Much You Love (Audio CD)

magnetophone live in their own universe.

i guess sometimes i need to be reminded of how much you love me confidently skips, pulsates, fizzes and vibrates along lead by a barage of very self assured beats, sonic walls of sound and melancholy melodies. tracks are anywhere between 6 to 9 minutes long with a few 2-3 minute long snippets thrown in for good measure. oh darlin is a brilliant and lovely opener which then segues into the sonic bliss of frankholmes drive. melodies and drum beats are heavily buried under the sounds but they're there. one of my particularly favorite tracks is why stop when it feels so good? but at 9+ minutes it meanders along for far too long and doesn't quite go anywhere but it's a nice ride and definitely lives up to its title. grateful aren't we?, so much as to hold my hand and the emotional closer love needs you are all definite stand out tracks for me.

the album art is interesting too. the cover is actually a slip case too small for the CD to fit in but when you open it to try to fit the disc in, there's a photograph of a very angry looking woman with a blonde flip gazing at her reflection in a mirror. very clever.

this is very emotional electronic music with an edge. it really touched me. reserve a space of time to sit back, relax, and immerse yourself with a really good pair of headphones. it gets to you, as much as you don't want it to.