Per Second Per Second Per Second Every Second

Wheat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• Copy Protected
• ASIN: B0000E32VA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,320 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Met A Girl

2. Breathe

3. These Are Things

4. Life Still Applies

5. Go Get The Cops

6. Some Days

7. World United Already

8. Hey, So Long (Ohio)

9. The Beginner

10. Can't Wash It Off

11. Closer To Mercury

12. This Rough Magic

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, Dream Pop, January 11, 2005

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Around "Around" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Per Second Per Second Per Second Every Second (Audio CD)

'Per Second' epitomizes what pop music should be, but so rarely is: gorgeous. Wheat's fourth album is so beautiful and dreamy it hurts. If you want a few catchy, inspiring songs, this album has it in "I Met a Girl", "Life Still Applies", and the breath-taking "These Are Things". Or, if you want to fall asleep listening to the prettiest ethereal songs, try "This Rough Magic", "Hey, So Long", or "The Beginner". What makes Wheat so fantastic is their ability to take the elements of modern pop, which have decayed into repetitive and stale radio playlists, into something which sounds like all the perfect things in your life in a song. I love this album.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars hopefully better with time, December 6, 2003

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M. G Richardson (edinburgh uk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Per Second Per Second Per Second Every Second (Audio CD)

After waiting 4 years since thier last effort 'hope and adams' perhaps i set myself up to be dissapointed.
This is not a bad album at all but it sounds very safe and predictable throughout.
It is a more mature album than 'hope and adams' but it seems with that maturity comes a blandness, this sounds like it comes from any year in the last 20, unlike the last album which had much more of an edge with its ambient and abstract production.
During 50 minutes of this album i was really hoping something new was going to happen, but it never did, in fact there are songs that sound really similar,you can sing 'i met a girl' along to the chorus of 'some days' due to the almost identical bass line.
So im there thinking 'has this band run out of ideas?' then comes a hidden track, an inferior version of 'dont i hold you' from their previous album stripped of all emotion, really not needed.
I must stress again that this is not a bad album 'hey so long' has some really nice touches and the melody of 'the beginner' rivals 'dont i hold you' in the goosebumps contest.
I hope its a grower but i just expected something a bit more inventive from wheat.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better with every listen, & it was great to begin with!, November 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Per Second Per Second Per Second Every Second (Audio CD)

This album represents a fairly major evolutionary leap for Wheat from the excellent lo-fi indie music they present on Hope & Adams and Medeiros. The change seems as major to me as the shift in Wilco from A.M. to Summerteeth. They have gone from being a pretty much a sadcore band to a brilliant, sparkly, edgy pop band (sort of like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/ Wilco crossed with the Fountains of Wayne) Hard to pick out favorites when the whole damn thing is so good, but check out "I met a girl", "World United Already", and "Life Still Applies".

I agree with the second poster that a comparison to Phish and Dave Matthews is insulting to Wheat, but hey maybe it will influence the folk who listen to that stuff to start developing a little taste and discernment in their music :-)