Movie Monster

Sound Team | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000FILW90
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,139 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An exceedingly robust, and classic, Movie Monster, June 11, 2006

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Bastion Wilcox (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Movie Monster (Audio CD)

Amidst the early swell of blogger buzz generated by Sound Team's fantastic "Work" EP (released independently in November 2005 on their Big Orange Records imprint) little did anyone know that the band would grow so quickly in the wake of that taseter set.

But the buzz continued.

Then swelled.

If "Work" was a taster for what might have been, Sound Team's debut release inches the Austin six-piece toward something far less speculative, largely due to the fact that Movie Monster is, quite simply, a rarefied gem.

It nothing less than the slightest understatement to say that they achidve something special here, something that not just any act can achieve on such a highly anticipated debut.

Whereas the Work EP often finds Sound Team venturing into masterful, Moog-driven major key cacophonies, Sound Team, this time around, explore darker, more experimental territrory whilst keeping their effortless tunefulness in tact.

Let it be know, there's diffuse territory to be traversed on Movie Monster. "Get Out," a terse, driving teaser anthem is followed by two dense pop gems, the pleading "Born to Please" and the Randy Newman meets Delfonte Gerard Boncleste ditty, "No More Birthdays."

The pulsating title track is the opening salvos to the record's middle act, which is, at times, darker and more experimental, part Neu!, part Eno, part Harry Nilsson, if that even makes sense.

It'd be otherwise negligent to overlook their influences, yet it'd be unwise to cite them as anything other than reference points: Sound Team sounds like one of those great, rare bands vigilently unique unto itself.

The record's third act meanders amongst exquisitely hazy sonics ("Afterglow Year" and "You've Never Lived a Day"), claustrophobic dance pop ("Shattered Glass"), and anthemic ennui (the epic/live staple "Handful of Billions").

One of 2006's ten best. Hands down.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic, June 6, 2006

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F. Madden (boston, ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Movie Monster (Audio CD)

I got my hands on an advanced copy of the album a month ago and am still listening to it constantly. Easily my favorite album of the year, and a real leap forward from the promise the band showed on the Work EP. The album has a distinctive sound and very cohesive feel, with my fave tracks being Born to Please, Handful of Billions, and Back in Town.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A slow burner, January 10, 2007

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Jason Harrington "Trucker Hater Magazine" (Little Rock, AR) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Movie Monster (Audio CD)

This is an indie rock kind of thing...not too wierd or exotic, but there is a seathing realism that creeps out from underneath these seemingly meaningless lyrics. There is something very creepy and real going on in these songs, along the lines of Death Cab For Cutie but with more ambiguity and with an overall sound that could tour alongside everything from We Are Scientists or the Bravery, to Single Frame or Autolux (all groups which should never be confused, or underestimated). I can't really descibe this sound, except to say that it's addictive, it ages well, and therefore I can't bring myself to take it out of my CD wallet. It's been in there for almost a year now. That single "Yr Eyes Are Liars" is a MONSTER if you have the ears to notice. So buy this if you are thinking about doing it anyway. Even though they are on a major label...come on, I mean, this label has no clue what to do with a group like this anyway...I was barely able to even find them on the record label website. Just buy it...I doubt they will be on this label for long.