Strange We Should Meet Here (Mcup)

Idiot Pilot | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 17, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B00063MC3Y
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,980 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Losing Color

2. A Day in the Life Of A Poolshark

3. Open Register

4. Les Lumieres

5. The Violent Tango

6. Nightlife

7. .Sparkplug

8. Moerae

9. Strange We Should Meet Here

10. Militance Prom

11. To Buy A Gun

12. A Light At The End of the Tunnel

13. Arrhythmia

14. Lucid

Editorial Reviews

Jarring and aggressive yet beautiful and melodic, Strange We Should Meet Here marks the debut album from Idiot Pilot, written, performed and produced by 18-year-olds Daniel Anderson and Michael Harris. Mixing electronica, post-hardcore and contemporary pop, the result is a potent, propulsive and powerfully original musical statement. A juxtaposition of emotionally charged music and the cold logic of electronic sounds, Strange We Should Meet Here heralds the arrival of one of today ’s most promising young bands.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply put......astonishing..., May 26, 2005

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Jimmy (Edmonton, Alberta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strange We Should Meet Here (Mcup) (Audio CD)

When I first heard any of the songs off of this albulm, it was live at the Taste of Chaos tour. Me and several of my counterparts we're left jaws dropped and expecting to need a new pair of pants.

It's easy to enjoy a band live when you know the songs, but very little do you find a musical group that can blow your mind at first chance live. Especially when they only can play 5 songs and are part of alimited acoustic set used to provide transitions between the bigger bands. As me and my friends agree, they we're by far the best act of the night and to our everlasting shame we never got a shirt.

Luckily the band stated their name proudly...."Idiot Pilot" and that until their albulm release in May you could find their songs on their website. Of course the very next morning it was the immediate impulse to listen to every single last one of these songs. At first one looks for the songs he/she recognizes from the concert, then moves on to the even less familiar songs. You love the ones you heard before and are intrigued by the ones you haven't. The boldness of the albulm is cultivating. Songs like 'The Violent Tango' with the raw screaming and often....un-conventional-music like sounds are interesting. And at first one is set off by the boldness....but it is this extreme displacement of sound that makes this band so amazing. The music is melodic yet powerful. Streamlined by techno-ish keyboards and soaring vocals, and made raw and gritty by guitar and throat ripping screams. Interestingly enough it's not poorly thrown together. 'Spark Plug' is one of the most intense songs I've ever heard, yet it still has melodic factors. 'To buy a gun' is now a favorite among those I am associated with. 'A day in the life of a poolshark' is catchy as hell, but it has enough quality that you don't mind when it gets stuck in your head for hours at a time.

To say the least, this albulm is sheer genius on both sides of the creative mind-pool. A team truly destined for the musci industry. And their homemade music videos only boost the incredibility of the albulm.

I recommend this albulm to an open-minded and patient audience who will carefully listen to the songs and not just pass it up at first glance. For within lies talent found by few other mainstream bands out there.

And if you get a chance.....SEE THEM LIVE.....IT'S AMAZING!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strange We Should Meet Here, June 12, 2010

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Blake Estes (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews
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Every song on this album is just plain beautiful. Even the screaming is done tastefully and never really gets annoying, and for me, that's something pretty hard to accomplish. This album in general just fits together perfectly, it has its ups and downs, and it never ends up sounding the same. There just always seems to be something in each song that catches your attention even without there being any kind of chorus.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great work, June 12, 2010

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L. Helms - See all my reviews
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On a whim I got this album. Now its one of my all time favorites.

The duo really seem to understand the importance of texture, layering, and of contrast. Oh yeah, there's yelling. If that's all you are hearing, you aren't listening closely enough. It's just an emotional dynamic that pushes the recordings over the edge in a great way. Thom Yorke isn't the first thing I think of when hearing the vocals. I think its less a case of him trying to sound like Yorke, but of some listeners hearing elements that are present in many singers, Yorke included, and of a bit of overexposure of Radiohead--who are indeed a great band, just well-listened to. It is useful in some sense to define one band with others more familiar, but there reaches a point where you actually have to talk about what the music is, not just what it is like.

And this music is wonderful. Delicate textures cascade in some tracks (lucid) while others are more aggressive (spark plug), all the while never losing focus of the intricate sound field these two guys are weaving. In these days where so many albums are really just a loosely related selection of singles, this release feels right as a whole, so put it on and listen to it all the way through. These guys really paid attention the the work they were doing, and you will find few recording artists capable of this kind of product.