Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

Do Make Say Think | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Constellation
• ASIN: B0000CD5I3
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,888 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beauty, October 27, 2004

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N. Turner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (Audio CD)

my first introduction to post-rock came a few years ago, with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and after that initial love-affair i searched endlessly for more bands in the same vein. Many of the GYBE affiliates(a silver mt. zion, fly pan am), as well as others not under the Constellation Records umbrella(mogwai, epxlosions in the sky), but i think i've found my favorite in Do Make Say think. Their album and song titles may sound about as pretentious as any other post-rock outfit, but that's basically where the prententions end.

With Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn, DMST have created a work of pure post-rock perfection. Blending elements of jazz with the chamber rock features of label mates Godspeed, but with the perverbial "fat" cut out of the songs, just pure honest songwriting. You wont find your self fast forwarding through numerous minutes of inaudible ambient noise, no sir, from the upbeat jazzy opener "Fredericia", to the soft, serene closer "Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!", Winter Hymn puts the listener into a state of post-rock haaven, and once the final notes of "Hooray!(x3)" play out, you'll be begging for more, I know I was.

this is a band that plays for the sheer love of music. This is a band that is helping to make the music industry a better place. This album is a must have for ANY post-rock fan, but also worth looking in to for those of you who have never even heard the term "post-rock" in your life. Invest the simple $12 on this album, and let it move you.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best post-rock album so far, May 29, 2004

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Thaddeus (nyc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (Audio CD)

I hate when people say "Best (blank) ever", especially about music because music is so personal. But I've listened to a lot of post-rock (a genre that hates to name itself, by the way) and this album is just so great. I'm so glad to see that the average review is five stars, so few really deserve this much praise. Things that set Do Make Say Think apart from their peers: 1)They have a greatly expanded melodic vocabulary. Not all moments here are somber or angry. 2)There is just so little indulgence in this music. Nothing in here seems to last forever or go off into a place that is unnecessary. 3)The semi-exotic instrumentation (horns and strings, basically) isn't temporary and isn't there to back-up the guitars. The chamber elements used here really function in a way that's integrated. I have a big place in my heart for Godspeed...!, Mogwai and Tortoise, but this album has got them all beat.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chicago meets Montreal, October 14, 2003

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a1 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (Audio CD)

Do Make Say Think are instrumental, cinematic indie rock hailing from Quebec. This is definitely a sister album to their previous, "And Yet And Yet", rather than their first two albums. They've departed a little from their original epic buildup sound and become a bit more like Chicago instrumental post rock without the malaise: tighter, snappier, yet still as indulgent as ever with the song lengths (10 minutes tops - no complaints here). I don't want to imply it's a total frenzy though - just lively. They make excellent use of poignant lulls and Mogwai(c) dynamic crescendos. As with &Yet&Yet, lilting waltz-like time signatures, syncopation and jazzy little fills abound. And as with all their albums, Winter Hymns has its few moments of truly transcendent beauty, where the musicianship and the mix comes together and makes your toes curl.