Two Sunsets [Vinyl]

Pastels, Tenniscoats | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (November 3, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Domino
• ASIN: B002PHVH76
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #370,162 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. So Many Stars

2. Two Sunsets

3. Song For A Friend

4. Vivid Youth

5. Yomigaeru

6. Modesty Piece

7. About You

8. Boats

9. Hikoki

10. From On A Mountain Sodane

11. Mou Mou Rainbow

12. Start Slowly

Editorial Reviews

The Pastels are from Glasgow and Tenniscoats from Tokyo. They have different sounds, but something in common too. The collaboration that eventually became the Two Sunsets album arose from a suggestion by Tenniscoats that some studio time be booked while they were in Glasgow, just to see what happens, and maybe to try to find out what it is that they have in common. It's melodic, optimistic and brilliant.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rising suns, January 27, 2010

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Boxodreams "[e-mail]" (district of columbia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Sunsets (Audio CD)

Good people and fans of delicate sounds, this pastels collaboration with tenniscoats is a breathtaking beauty, a shimmery summer thing released in winter, but a summer thing that lives in the twilight, the extended lazy, lovely hours of daylight's savings time, in a magic world where you are not rushing, stuck in traffic, to and fro from work, but, rather, wandering a park with friends, perhaps Japanese friends, enjoying an idyll by a lake or stream, or a backyard barbecue when all the hustle and bustle has died down and you're sitting in a circle with said friends, sipping wine under the fading day sky with music blowing hypnotic waves of soft goodness into your ears, simple joys. These songs are flower petals, pastels, sung in English and Japanese, with lovely keybs and guitars, sometimes shades of early Orange Juice strumming, the pastels' glaswegian bretheren. Much of it is hushed or sweet pop, with the tenniscoats, an experimental couple, providing seemless embellishments to the pastels gently hooky grooves. it is a masterwork of serenity in increasingly coarse times. The pastels come from out of the past, the '80's, and the Creation Label and can be considered parents of the twee but also with a fine sensibility, which included a long relationship with the gals from the unjustly forgotten but still very pertinent Shop Assistants. These grown-ups never wavered and lapsed into any kind of modern, bitter snark. They must drift through life very happy to make sounds this lovely. and that's just side one. pick hit: "Vivid Youth."