Low Birth Weight [Import]

Piano Magic | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 9, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Rocket Girl
• ASIN: B00000JST0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glen Johnson is probably a genius., May 23, 2000

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George T. Parsons (Nevada City, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Low Birth Weight (Audio CD)

This `99 release sounds like some lost `80's masterpiece of dark atmospherics and sweetly gloomy pop. Wonderful and eerie, experimental and dreamy, trance and organic psychedelia in a mix of male and female vocals. Bringing to mind: Deux Filles, Strawberry Switchblade, Durutti Column, Anna Domino and such contemporary outfits as; Hood, Jessamine, Current 93, Tindersticks, and Lambchop's darkest musings. Piano, not so much, Magic, much indeed. Twilight drawing room's shifting ambience and slowly emerging details, keep this sound/song tapestry consistently captivating.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure genius!, August 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Low Birth Weight (Audio CD)

Glen Johnson has done it again - using guest vocalists to flesh out his stories (Raechel Leigh from Baby Birkin, Simon Rivers from Bitter Springs, Caroline Potter, Jen Adam) and musician friends from post-rock's intelligentsia (State River Widening, ISAN, Icebreaker, The Wisdom of Harry) - he creates a world of unrequited longing and heartbreak. The textural soundwashes caress the listener as the words cut the soul in two with their loneliness. The difference from the last PM release, _Popular Mechanics_ seems emotionally radical. There's a sensuality & warmth that contrasts with the distance of the earlier work. It seems that Johnson has found his heart and lost it again... Lovemaking/Breakup album of the year. Standout tracks: "Snowfall Soon," "Not Fair," "I Am The Sub-Librarian" A brilliant accomplishment.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Low Birth Weight Meets High Expectations, June 7, 2004

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Gymlinks (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Low Birth Weight (Audio CD)

Easily one of the most underratd groups in the UK Indie music scene, Glen Johnson's collective Piano Magic has produced it's share of masterpieces, but this is easily the cream of the crop. The mood throughout is sombre and depressing, but also achingly beautiful at the same time. Here Glen takes a back seat in the vocals department in favor of PM regulars such as Caroline Potter. Similar to Artists Rifles, the PM follow-up to Low Birth Weight, several of the songs are merely poetry readings over a simple guitar track. "Snow Drums" is simply a narrative about a ride home from a reahersal (I breathe a canvas on the window/ to write your name on the landscape). "Dark Sectrets Look for Light" is easily the most haunting track on the album (Get me an ugly wife/ no man will look twice/ let me fall asleep at night/ and dream of someone else . . . I went back to the flat/ and found her hanging there/ silk nightdress fallen chair/ I found her hanging there).

Although PM went on to produce some great albums, this will always stand out as their best work and some of the best Indie music to ever come out of the UK