Noah's Ark

CocoRosie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 13, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Touch & Go Records
• ASIN: B000AGL1PC
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,361 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

A unicorn, a rainbow spitting zebra and what looks to be a horse sprouting a third eye are engaged in group sex on the illustrated cover of CocoRosie's second album. If that leads you to expect something playful and magical but also starkly screwed-up from the recording inside, you are on the right path. With assistance from Antony and Devendra, Ark is easily one of the most rewarding releases of 2005. The core of the music is made by singers/multi-instrumentalists Sierra and Bianca Cassidy, formerly estranged sisters who bonded over music and made their magical debut in a Paris flat. Their music has a lunatic music box feel that ought to appeal to fans of Bjork and Joanna Newsom, while the lyrics mine transgressive territory more often found in a book by JT LeRoy than a pop song. The true stars of the album are the singers' lovely, ethereal voices, which refract a '30s jazz-blues idiom through a strangely deadened, forever-sad delivery. It's the vocal equivalent of the toymaker's creations from Blade Runner and it is simply beautiful! -Mike McGonigal

Product Description

Since the mysterious and beautiful "La Maison de Mon Reve" surfaced in early 2004, CocoRosie have spent months traveling the world with the likes of Bright Eyes, TV On The Radio, Antony And The Johnsons, Devendra Banhart, and Blonde Redhead. Along the way, "Noah's Ark" took shape, where heart-offerings of friends, family, loved ones and lost ones surface gracefully, contributing depth to the narrative journey. "Noah's Ark" is the result of a rootless reality, a drifting consciousness across state lines, date lines, time lines...connected to the past, vague about the future. But the heart of these songs is always issued from a tender present.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The angst and the pain of the world explained through delicacy and beauty that no other could suprass., March 21, 2006

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Amanda Mikalson "Mandahunx" (Pullman, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Noah's Ark (Audio CD)

Noah's Ark was delicately beautiful, simplistically intricate, lovely in form and sound, that is how I would describe CocoRosie's new album Noah's Ark. Each song deals with things that hit on various different emotional levels in such a way as if you are being innundated with rainbows, with each color telling you a different side to the story. This is an album that strikes a nerve, it hits your heart with it's soft tender little clings and clangs, and tiny voices, each of which hit convey to your heart a different and new emotion. CocoRosie have painted a beautiful landscape, that is at once pretty and fantastical yet beneath the surface shows the grit and grime of reality. A place where art has created perfect harmony between the oppositions.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, October 7, 2005

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Wesley Walton (salem, or United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Noah's Ark (Audio CD)

i recently saw cocorosie open for antony and the johnsons after only hearing their first album (which i honestly wasn't too impressed with) and they blew me away. it was so cuddly-sad, like the feel i get from listening to mum, but more gritty, less ethereal. this album does a much better job of showcasing their live sound. "beautiful boys" makes me want to sob(!) if you liked the first album, you'll LOVE this one. it's beautiful, sad, rainy-day music for sure. see them live if you can. it's amazing.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Those Beautiful Girls, February 12, 2006

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mmmtea (ON, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Noah's Ark (Audio CD)

The best thing to happen to me all year was this album. I honestly never even thought of music this way before: professionally amateur made music with effective randomized sounds (music box, opera singer, cats, car, barn animals, etc etc). This is the sisters' darkest album they have ever done covering controversial issues [arguably, even more so than Tori Amos]. Such songs include "K-hole" - a state of a wildly dissociated experience in which other worlds or dimensions that are difficult to describe with language are said to be perceived, all the while being completely unaware of one's individual identity or the outside world; my favourite, however is "Beautiful Boys" featuring Antony & The Johnsons - homosexual hate crime in a way of imprisonment/orphanage with references to the holy church, "A devil's child with dove wings". Basically, it's just one of those albums I cannot get tired of. There is an overwhelming amount of beauty and sorrow -a glorious concoction in this electronica trip hop folk. I have never been this wowed in my entire musical life, lyrically, musically, creatively, and engineer...ly. My #1 album of 2005 without a doubt.