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Lush is Progressive Pop, April 12, 2000
This review is from: Spooky (Audio CD)
The one thing which no one reviewing Lush's albums seems to notice is the level of harmonic maturity in their songs. They never take the easy or obvious resolution in a cadence or turnaround. The modulations are subtle and sometimes abrupt. Who cares about the lyrics. Whoever wrote the music (my guess is its the guitarist) knows their harmony. Any jazz musician would find soloing over Lush tunes to be as challenging as much of the jazz standard catalog. This is not jazz but the level of songsmithing is there hidden behind layers of distortion. The other shoegazer bands arent even close. Lush is progressive pop, like XTC and Todd Rundgren, and Kate Bush.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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A masterpiece, March 21, 2002
This review is from: Spooky (Audio CD)
I have owned this album for ten years and never get tired of it. It's a bit of a departure from other Lush albums, mostly due to the fact that it was produced by the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie. Sensuous and shimmering, it is an album to listen to late at night with your eyes closed and only the Christmas lights on. Guthrie's sense of beauty and Lush's intensity blend seamlessly here. At times dreamy, at times passionate, at times haunting, and in all cases beautiful, this album takes the "otherwordly layered wall of sound" that the Cocteau Twins pioneered and moves it in a unique direction.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Gorgeous, July 28, 2000
A Kid's Review
This review is from: Spooky (Audio CD)
Ok, this record is not as good as, say, "Forever Changes" or "Marquee Moon", but you know what? in my humble opinion it comes pretty close. Although Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie's somewhat nebulous production isn't entirely satisfactory, this is a haunting collection of songs. It would be hard to sum up where the strength of this record lies. The song have a perfectly dreamy quality Guthrie's own band never fully realised, the multiple flanged/distorted/chorussed guitar qualls sounding like nothing else before or after in guitar music (and don't give me that tired old rap about how MBV "did it all before", they never did it with the same grace as Lush did!)or Miki Berenyi's soothing, just-slightly-out-of-tune voice. As for the latter-Miki's voice kept me hooked for ages, for one thing she sounds pretty sexy to these ears! This record should be the soundtrack to a wonderful love affair, a night in Tunesia stoned on kif or your worst nightmare-and at best it's all of the above. I personally cherish this record, you probably will too. In one word? Gorgeous.
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