Private Cinema

Slaraffenland | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 26, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hometapes
• ASIN: B000RB9QG6
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,450 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Band To Watch" --Stereogum

...textured aural luxury...7.9 --Pitchfork

...that they ve found just the right sounds to so effectively haunt the halls of their own aesthetic should put the album comfortably on a number of year end lists, and the band firmly on the radar. --Coke Machine Glow

Product Description

Full-blooded, jazz-damaged artpop from Denmark. Based in Copenhagen, Slaraffenland expertly expand on the guitar-bass-drums standard with brass and woodwind instruments, various racket-makers, and transfixing gang vocals. Private Cinema is one of those records that just screams album. There are one-million-and-one ideas pouring out of every nook and cranny, little drops of sunshine pelting you in the face until a summer thunderstorm sneaks up from behind you. Rock (post and otherwise), jazz (avant and otherwise), electronics (both out there and accessible), and vocals (sung, shouted, chanted, & hummed) all find themselves intermingling. The monumental deluxe CD packaging is designed by Friends With You, the world-famous duo from Miami comprised of Arturo Sandoval III and Sam Borkson. In the past few years, Friends With You have turned museums, stores, and malls upside down with playful, mind-bending playground-like installations. Private Cinema is packaged in a custom storybook-style case printed in three exquisite colors. The pockets conceal a CD and a two-sided miniposter insert.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Post-folk/loose, psychedelic chamber folk/hippie campfire jazz-pop, May 5, 2008

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M. Jason (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Private Cinema (Audio CD)

On Private Cinema, Slaraffenland wander through the various realms inhabited by Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Bardo Pond, Pinback, and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. A bit crunchy on the surface but urbane and even stark just below it. Most of all, this record is sublime. Guitars, brass, woodwinds, drums, a bit of electronics, male hippie-choral vocals. If you pay attention, this Copenhagen band even know how to be scary. A frighteningly good album that sneaks up on you. This is their second full-length. Limited edition EP due this summer as they tour the US with fellow Danes Efterklang.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slaraffen sluff, December 9, 2007

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Nobody - See all my reviews

This review is from: Private Cinema (Audio CD)

When "Watch Out" didn't pick up immediately and kick it after the "better watch out" refrain and drifted into soft horns, I knew I wasn't going to like this nearly as much as I might. It's like that pretty much all through, it sounds like it's going to slide into a shoegazer cascade, and the musical ideas are such that you're anticipating good things, but instead it noodles around, bringing in other (generally unwanted) instruments and settles for being eclectic rather than electric. It's all build up and no pay off, long passages where either nothing happens, or a ramp gets built leading to nowhere, like "Rod".

Which is too bad, because it sounds like they could be really interesting if they played a little more like countrymates Mew and less like Blue Aeroplanes, if you know what I mean. I guess they're actually more what I imagined a Danish prog band would sound like. Well, other bands started like this (for example Sky Cries Mary), and eventually got past the noise phase and produced gold, so we'll see, but pass for now.