We Collide [Import]

Mesh | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 2007)
• Original Release Date: July 16, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Koenigskinder
• ASIN: B000E8N9TC
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,561 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Open Up The Ground

2. What Are You Scared Of?

3. Step By Step

4. No Place Like Home

5. Petrified

6. Rest In Pieces

7. This Is What You Wanted

8. Room With A View

9. My Hands Are Tied

10. Crash

11. Can You Mend Hearts?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Celebration time, May 7, 2006

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Ethan Straffin (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Collide (Audio CD)

Well, just for the record, I consider Mesh to be the most talented purveyors of dark synthpop on the planet at the moment. So, it probably wouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone that I like this album. A lot. Is it as good as "Who Watches Over Me," or possibly even better? I'm not prepared to answer that one just yet, so I'll just take the easy way out and recommend buying both. Both albums are at least 2/3 brilliant, with a few lesser moments toward the center. Going track by track:

1. Open Up the Ground -- This is the first of the album's three big dancefloor tracks, and it's a perfect opener.
2. What Are You Scared Of? -- One of my favorites. It's got a dangerous groove, nice use of piano in the verse and guitar in the chorus, and one of the album's better lyrical hooks ("Only you can press that button").
3. Step By Step -- The second dance track. I'm given to believe that it will be the second single, and if it gets enough of a push, it could be a monster. Fingers crossed.
4. No Place Like Home -- The first of three downtempo songs, and easily the most stunning. It's reminiscent of "Leave You Nothing" from WWOM both musically and lyrically. Addressed to a son or daughter with an abusive (and murderous?) stepfather, it manages to be simultaneously heartbreaking, haunting, and hopeful. Very Depechey, with some strong piano work.
5. Petrified -- My feeling about this one is that, as the longest song on the album, it needed a few more chord changes.
6. Rest in Pieces -- And now we have the shortest song (apart from the hidden one at the end, which I won't otherwise spoil). It's not bad, though there are a few uncharacteristic clunkers in the lyrics, of which the bad-goth-poem title pun is only the most noticeable.
7. This Is What You Wanted -- The most guitar-driven song on the album. It reminds me a bit of "Razorwire" from WWOM, but it's considerably better.
8. Room With a View -- From what I've been reading in the fora on Mesh's official site, people seem to either like this one a lot or not much at all. I must admit that I fall into the latter camp. It's just too consistently minor-key and dirgelike for my taste.
9. My Hands Are Tied -- From the most minor-key song to the most major-key song. While the beat and the unexpected "wah-wah" guitar cause the verse to veer strangely close to midtempo disco territory, all is forgiven once the chorus kicks in. I can't get the darn thing out of my head.
10. Crash -- This is the lead single, and a fine choice it was. It's very catchy and very danceable. If you like it, I recommend the "Alien Six Kerosene Remix" on the single, which I like even more. (The single also features a great B-side in "Soul," which I think they should have swapped with "Rest in Pieces.")
11. Can You Mend Hearts? -- Mesh tend to have a way with big emotional midtempo closers. (See "The Trouble We're In" from WWOM and "Not Prepared" from "The Point at Which it Falls Apart," of which this one is strongly reminiscent in one particular passage.) This is a fine addition to the canon.

All in all, it's a terrific album. If you can, consider getting the limited edition with the DVD. (I posted this same review at the page for that product, but with an additional paragraph that discusses the DVD.)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It really doesn't get any better than this!, May 4, 2007

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Wayneman (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Collide (Audio CD)

Mesh has been one of my top two favorite bands over the last ten years(the other being De/Vision), and with 'We Collide', they certianly have outdone themselves.

For a band who has created such hauntingly beautiful electronic music for over a decade, they amazingly continue to ascend. 'We Collide'... well, I just can't find any flaws.

It is also very difficult for me to choose may favorite tracks, because they all effect me in different ways at different times.

"Crash" is one of their best dancefloor songs ever, while striking a serious emotional chord at the same time. Seriously, how many club-friendly songs have the ability to do that?

"Petrified" is simply incredible. The programming is crisp and trance-inducing, while the lyrics possess depth rarely heard in this genre.

I won't describe all the tracks in this sort of detail, but I will say this: this band deserves much more than it gets in terms of popularity, especially here in the U.S.

True artists have the ability to create a thing of beauty, while at the same time provoke, and spur their observers to deep reflection.

Mesh are true artists in every sense of the word, especially with a masterpiece like 'We Collide'. I couldn't recommend it enough.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mesh never fails to WOW!!!, April 27, 2006

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J. Caron "psychohead7" (Orem, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Collide (Audio CD)

This new album was well worth the wait! Mesh is one of my favorite bands and they never fail to wow me. I love this CD. The music is catchy enough that you love it right away, though it only gets better with each listen. In fact, I like this better than their last effort. It has a little more energy and grit. The songs are punchy and diverse, heartfelt and thought-provoking. My favorites are "Open Up the Ground", "What Are You Scared Of?", "Step by Step", "No Place Like Home", "My Hands Are Tied" and "Crash". If you love Mesh, synthpop, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails or just plain good music, get this album!