PARTICLES & WAVES

Cranes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: PID
• ASIN: B00021Y92W
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,123 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

UK release of the long awaited seventh studio album, & first studio release since 2001's highly acclaimed album Future Songs, by English dream trance-pop/shoegazing group, features ten tracks. Dadaphonic. 2004.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Got Everything We Need, August 24, 2004

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sgnimmuc t. (Hollywood, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PARTICLES & WAVES (Audio CD)

Long-time Cranes fan here. Since 1990. I've run the gamut with them, definitely. Years of music, changing styles, etc. But this album ranks as one of my favorites by them; and I dare say it may make it into my top 10 of all time. A simple, honest, straightforward shot of songs. It's a mysterious and enthralling musical landscape that I enjoy roaming with each new listen. It's innocent and often eerie explorations of outer space-ness, and all the forces in our world we can't see yet we know are there (like wind, or the stars in the daytime) are magnificent. Highlights: "Here Comes The Snow", "Particles and Waves" and "Far From the City." Cranes fans will adore it, and new listeners will as well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very new direction, August 3, 2004

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Paul Bates (Southborough, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PARTICLES & WAVES (Audio CD)

Jim Shaw reveals a strong Geir Jenssen influence in many of the new tracks in Particles and Waves. For those familiar with Biosphere, this will come as good news. For those still longing for the good old rock and roll of the Cranes' earlier work, this will sound the death knell. Not that there isn't some bounce in the CD, but most of that is limited to the title track, which is sung in French and has more of a pop sound that their great grinding guitar signature of songs like Wish, Starblood and E G Shining. No, this is more trance/mantra, incredibly well done. Ali is in great form, and Jim's singing (limited to one track)has improved since Population 4, thank goodness.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Soft solitude, November 14, 2004

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Beketaten "beketaten" (Pangea) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PARTICLES & WAVES (Audio CD)

This was actually my first Cranes album; I bought it knowing that it was supposed to be different from their many other previous works...After hearing those later, I can see what everyone means.

I love this new direction as much as the old, but in a totally different way...It is much like the snowflake on the cover...it's an album that's like riding on a snowflake, and the gentle songs are like waves of secretive emotions. Guitars and various strings make it sort of airless in their softness and it's rather hard to describe. But whatever words are used, this is definitely a delicate gem.