M4

Faunts | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: December 11, 2007
• Label: Friendly Fire Recordings
• Copyright: 2007 Friendly Fire Recordings
• Genres: Alternative Rock/Indie & Lo-Fi, Dance & DJ/Electronica
• ASIN: B0010CGXRG
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,848 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Warped, droning bliss, February 10, 2010

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Jon - See all my reviews

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This review is from: M4 (MP3 Download)

Sleepwalker is aptly named. It sounds like a dream; almost real but you never quite get a hold of it. It's a slowly swirling foggy night with a bright full moon. Except you look down and there's no earth beneath your feet.

The first three tracks are phenomenal, and really the album could have ended there and I'd be quite satisfied. The last two are good too, but totally different, and perhaps too straightforward to achieve the same muted brilliance as the opening trilogy. Meno Mony Falls sounds a bit like what you would get if you added a drum machine to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, though it lacks any of the complexity of a GY!BE piece. Of Nature is an appropriately subdued ending to the album, but isn't particularly memorable.

Of course, this being an MP3 purchase, you could just buy the first three tracks and be done with it. But I'm still fixated on the album format in general, and I definitely suggest that this one be consumed as a whole. It has the sweet-spot length of right around forty minutes and a rise-and-fall action that would be missed if taken in pieces.

If you like Mogwai, Sigur Ros, M83, Epic45, My Bloody Valentine, fourcolor, Slowdive, Four Tet, Stars of the Lid, or anything else that's some combination of warped, droning, spacey, and distorted then you'll probably like this. And if you like this (or some of those) and haven't listened to one or more of those other bands, check 'em out! They're great.

4.0 out of 5 stars Electronic Chill Rock, August 12, 2011

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Like so many others, I had to find out what song played at the end of Mass Effect. I found this album, previewed it, and decided to go for the whole thing. I'm glad I did! M4 Part 2 is definitely the catchiest song on here, but the others still have a morose energy to them that I really enjoy. This album is pretty different from their others (this one's less ambient, and more powerful--a win, in my book).

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, March 8, 2010

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Robert Bruce (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

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It's really slow-moving and calm, so if thats not your thing don't get this, but its super spacey and very well constructed. Long sweeping building kinda arrangements. Short and sweet. It's a little more interesting than Faunts newest in my opinion.