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Sweep Of Days

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For trip-hop fans that enjoyed Massive Attack's Mezzanine album, you will enjoy this similarly inspired, yet highly progressive, album that slightly goes beyond the limitations of the genre. The production quality is flawless, the soundscapes are very imaginative with a blend of the organic and digital, and the vocals are haunting and sensual. I highly recommend this album. Be sure to check out the track entitled "Sweep", as it will be a song that sticks with you for a while.

As blown away as I was by this release, I was a bit disappointed with Blue Foundations newest release, Life of a Ghost. Aside from the familiar female vocals and quality production, there is very little that resembles the style of this album. I am very supportive of musicians exploring new musical territory, but unfortunately they seem to have abandoned musical innovation and inspired creativity for alt-pop convention. Their new material is still enjoyable, but much more forgettable, unfortunately. I hope they return to their musical roots and don't get a case of Top-40-itis.

actually, amazing release from these danish! i haven't heard anything else from them but this cd rules!!!
it has many beautiful and haunting melodies without becoming cheesy, it is the perfect combination between pop and intellectual i think.
excellent effort!

I'm not a big Twilight fan, or a big trip hop fan (yet), but I love this album! It is melancholy and catchy at the same time, with occasional bits of jazz and blues. The guy singer's rapping has thoughtful lyrics, but half the time his performance is not the best. However, most of the songs are this wonderful dreamy soprano female singer.

Things that I generally like: synthpop, goth, klezmer, bagpipes, opera, oldies. I guess I would say this album has catchy voices like oldies, synth like synthpop, with a lack of meaningless cheerfulness, which (the lack, I mean) is something that goth aspires to. No bagpipes, sadly, maybe they haven't reached Denmark yet.

Originally I had never heard of this band before. I've stand firm in never seeing any Twilight movie, so I discovered this band from a Bar9 remix of the Twilight song on youtube. I went and got all three albums and this is how it ranks.

If you are a fan of Trip Hop, and have followed it as it has gone through ups and downs as far as great content, this album alone ranks as one of the greats.

The first album, Blue Foundation is a good album consisting mainly of samples layered over top of each other and looped around with a lot of scratching inbetween. Good, but not great but the BPM is a solid typical Trip Hop pace.
Consider it to RJD2, with nothing but samples looping around, but not at all with any rap or hip hop, just quality I mean.

Sweep of Days is a pure return to form. It seems like they had their gears all in line when making this because the production quality is great. If there was samples being used on this album you really wouldn't know because there's no vynl scratching or abrupt reverb cuts. The singing is soft and angelic and done well as it adds beauty and a great atmosphere, especially on End of Day chorus. This album all around is great to add to the addition of the collection to what you'd like to just have as relaxing background music, or a calm gathering. They just don't make music like this in the states and that's why I come across it almost a decade later. I haven't heard a Japan influenced track since DJ Krush and all his greatness. 10/10 There's even a piece from the original Tomb Raider PS1 game added into a sexy song - the part where the harp loops before the choir chimes back in.

With Life of a Ghost, it's not even the same band or genre anymore. They've completely removed any form of Trip Hop with samples or great 'surround head' production. Maybe they returned to their roots of Danish music, or got a new line up but it is not worth getting. Everything is too up beat, the best comparison I can say it this album is an EP or B-sides of Death in Vegas, because that band has like only one good song of their entire collection. The singing sounds effortless and lazy. It's a weak drum set, with weak guitars and a highly tuned bass. 4/10 if even that deserving after their wonderful second album.

Basically compare Blue Foundation's second and third album to Zero 7's first, second and third. The first Zero 7 was great because it was a fresh take on things, The second trimmed it down to more of a band and less samples and sound effects, and then the third just flushed itself down the toilet with sounding like a game show band or something, and then releasing a covers album with different vocalists. Hero to zero.

But Sweep of Days is a must own.

Blue Foundation is a new band for me, I discovered them from Twilight movie soundtrack..their first song I heard "Eyes on Fire" captured my attention right away! I then started listening to other songs, downloading 99 cent songs here and there through Amazon..but this album..I bought in entirety! All the songs are GOOD...I love their style.