When Your Heartstrings Break

Beulah | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 6, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugar Free Records
• ASIN: B00000IAK3
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,414 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unstoppable pop rocks keep on fizzing, January 15, 2001

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C. Olsen "Chuckumentary" (MINNEAPOLIS, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When Your Heartstrings Break (Audio CD)

I pop this scintillating disc in the stereo - quite frequently - and the first track begins to play. Something comes over me. I become a human rhythm machine. My brain actually shuts off, except for the part of my brain that makes me drum along with various writing implements to this amazing driving pop. I also try to sing along, but my brain can't combine melody and rhythm with anywhere near the skill that Beulah can.

It's true, the 60's influence is here: the lush orchestration, strummy guitars, production by Elephant 6's modern-day Brian Wilson, Robert Schneider. Yet somehow it all sounds fresh and new. Miles Kurosky's lyrics and delivery set Beulah apart from so many wanna-be pop bands. Even when his songs don't make much sense, his delivery is just so damned punchy and passionate I can't help but to sing along!

What I'm trying to say is, this album makes me act like a complete idiot for half an hour, and that's a wholesome and gratifying thing.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars unbelievable greatness, October 24, 2003

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Emily (London, Ontario) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Your Heartstrings Break (Audio CD)

Beulah's 2nd album, when your heartstrings break, is probably their best album thus far. It's incredibly happy, fun and extremely well done. Beulah are definitely the best indie pop band going right now and everyone who has not checked them out should. Pick up all of they're albums while you're at it.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Goodness From Elephant 6, February 25, 2000

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Ken Neld (Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Your Heartstrings Break (Audio CD)

Upon first listen, this record immediately brought to mind The Apples In Stereo; in particular, their 1997 album "Tone Soul Evolution". This was not a good thing because A) It made Beulah's album sound somewhat derivitive and B) I didn't particularly care for "TSE". After giving "When Your Heartstrings Break" a few more listens however, I have become convinced that not only is this album very different from said Apples album, but also that Beulah is the best band the Elephant Six collective has to offer (I say "band" rather than "artist" because I feel Jeff Magnum aka Neutral Milk Hotel is the best thing going in music today). At any rate, this is an album that demands close attention and repeated listenings. Like last year's "The Soft Bulletin" by The Flaming Lips, there is a unifying tone to the album that can make all the songs sound the same at first. The extensive use of horns and various other kinds of high school marching band instrumentation, along with some Pavement style "sha-la-la-la-la"-ing initially gives the songs a decidedly sugary sweet sound. Give the album a chance to sink in though and these theatrics fade to the background and some suprisingly fantastic melodies take center stage. Highly reccomended to patient fans of indie-pop.