Mare [Vinyl]

Mare | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (March 13, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Translation Loss
• ASIN: B000EWBOK4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,022 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Anisette

2. They Sent You

3. Tropics

4. Palaces

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Woe is me, March 9, 2007

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L. Saulsbury (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mare (Audio CD)

I just recently read on the bands official myspace that Mare has called it quits. I've never written an amazon review before, and I don't know if I ever will again, but I feel it is my duty to attempt to influence anyone who may come across this to buy this album. Many bands dabble in the kind of doom and dismay that defines this album; Isis, Kayo Dot, even Godspeed You Black Emperor! But I've never heard any other band achieve the pure blackness of this EP.

Every second of every track contributes something to the album as a cohesive whole, as if you've begun staring at one square inch of a sprawling mural, zooming out little by little, until the entirety of the masterpiece is revealed to you in it's final, dying moments. The only other album that utilizes this sort of effect as well (in my opinion) is Jane Doe, and I don't compare things to Jane lightly.

When I first heard this EP I thought Mare was the future of heavy music, now it's the only artifact we'll ever have of a movement that died within its first steps. Enjoy it, and just try not to think of all the things that could have been

R.I.P. Mare.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Purely breathtaking..., June 2, 2005

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E. M. West "Musicholic" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mare (Audio CD)

This Canadian 3 piece is no joke. Mare's debut EP is so infectious, there will never be a remedy. Bands like Neurosis, Isis, and The Melvins have been mentioned in previous reviews, but you can't excuse elements of jazz and The Beach Boys. I haven't heard songs with such magnitude, power and diversity in years. The last album to really touch a nerve in a similar way for me was AENIMA by Tool.

Tyler Semrick-Palmateer (former singer of The End) truly shines through out. Here's a man who sounds so vomitous and who's screams make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up (picture Phil Anselmo and Chino Moreno having a bastard son) and then slithers right into beautiful soprano moments and Beach Boy-esque harmonies. And his guitar playing is fantastic as well. Intricate chords and huge riffs make him no slouch whatsoever.

A forward progress in the oversaturated landscape of heavy music, while the others are left far behind picking their jaws up off of the floor. BUY THIS NOW!!!

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mare is Awesome, December 7, 2004

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Steve (Brampton, Ontario) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mare (Audio CD)

yea you need to check this band out..awesome.. to the other dude that wrote a review.. i was at the show that weekend as well haha.. sweet... but yea.. this bands really good