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Transportation + Communication = Love

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it's jimmy from postal service and dntel. pure excellent electro pop. as good as it gets.

This changed my world. Before I was good person, I was a very bad person. When I was a bad person I listened to bad music. Now that i'm a good person, I listen to good music. If every man and woman on earth listened to the music on this CD...there would be no wars.

Their humor and simple sohpistication is endearing and just plain satisfying. There's something about the call and response lyrics, fake Euro-accents, robots and modem sounds that set them apart from the other electro-clashers. I am forever grateful to the friend who gave me this album. The second album 'The Heartfelt' is more mature and eclectic, but the lyrics are still along the same mushy themes. (...). I think I may love it even more the T+C=L. *Also - does anybody know what happeded to their site and any news of a new album?!? Somebody - include that in a review! I really need a new Figurine fix!

To say that Figurine makes self-aware music doesn't quite do their songs justice. It'd be more accurate to say that Figurine makes songs about self-aware music. Heavier, and slightly less refined, than their second main album.

I agree with everything everybody else said, but it's not super absolutely spectactularly amazing -- it's just really good. Some songs are better than others and the good songs really are spectactular. "Eurodiscoteque" and "New Millenium Song" are stand outs. "New Mate" reminds me a lot of Gary Numan but the campyness sounds a bit more tame 20 years later. It's not as innovative nor as good as their second album as it relies on synth pop conventions to flesh out the songs rather than the post-Mouse On Mars-ish computer distortion and polished edits(?). But it's quite fun. Also, compared to their second, it sounds like a bunch of singles as opposed to a cohesive album. Reccomended to those who like synth-pop and twee type boy/girl vocals.

Figurine is absolutly fantabulous...if you dig synthpop, you'll dig this album. It's poppy, emotional, has great electronic backgrounds, and is just an all around great album. Truly synthpop for the masses!

This album is a lot of fun and often silly. I listened my original copy to death and eventually had to track down another. If you like fake Euro accents and twee speak and spell kind of music, this might just be the one for you. It has such stand outs as a song that breaks in the middle so the singers can get abducted by aliens and dumped in a swamp while sounding resigned to there fate. Pretty damn funny if you ask me. Eurodiscotheque is very danceable and Batteries (Can't Help Me Now) is just highly enjoyable. Worth a spin, especially if you like DNTEL or J-pop.