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Y'all Get Scared Now Ya Hear

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This album makes everything easier. Everything about life, in general. I get up to go to work, and for the last three mornings, I've listened to this album. It's the perfect length for the drive, and the fact that the songs are ordered on the album in from simplest to most musical and most instrumental make the morning, in a way, build into a good idea. I noticed that another reviewer mentioned that this is an album to listen to while you're falling for someone. I agree. I'm at the beginning of a new relationship and the first track, "Be There For Me," is everything I'd ever want to say--but haven't said, yet. The rest of the tracks on the album are all reasons to say it, though. I'm amazed that this album was recorded in ten days. It's sonically beautiful and so intense; but at the same time whimsical. I think that's a good word. The second portion of the album is a stretch from the first, but a perfect one. The processed rhythms and bass lines that subtly drive the last tracks are amazingly crafted, and the closing track, "The Day We All Died," is about the finest melody I've ever heard. That's about all I can say. I love Belle & Sebastian; I love this. You all will, too, you hear?

Believe it or not, I'm not familiar with Snow Patrol, Arab Strap, or even Belle and Sebastian. I bought this album because I heard it playing in the record store. It's wonderful: poignant, playful, subtly profound. It starts very simply -- a voice and and acoustic guitar -- and builds slowly and steadily to a raging rocker, but gently all the way, and with a sweet "goodbye" at the close.

Fans of Yo La Tengo, Low, and the (incredible and underrated) Red House Painters should love this.

This debut from some of the best bands on the Glasgow (Scotland) indie scene is a curious mix of lo-fi misery, tinged with haunting ooh-aah vocals through to melodic riffs, and who knows, on tracks 5 & 7, perhaps even a single! The bands frontsman, Gary Lightbody of Irelands great Snow Patrol, puts his own stamp quickly on the proceedings with the beautiful and accessible opener "Will you be there for me". The album moves mysteriously through it's superb collection bringing out the best (though perhaps in a few cases could have allowed a little more) from bands as diverse as Arab Strap, Mogwai, Astrid and Belle and Sebastian. Nice atmospheric percussion and brass permeate throughout, led by sad almost tortured vocals but at all times fantastically expressive, you realy feel what they're trying to say. The story goes that Lightbody drifted through the extensive Glasgow indie scene asking everyone "Do you wanna be in me band?" and thankfully they all seem to have said yes. How on earth he then put together such an accomplished collection with real meaning is amazing. I believe that "Y'all get scared" is a gorgeous and unique record and once those lingering ooh-aahs drill into your subconscious, you just won't want them to stop.

It's a shame that Belle and Sebastian are given credit as the main contributors to this album because that truly misrepresents the sound. The real brain child behind this project is Gary Lightbody of Snowpatrol. Fans of Snowpatrol can look forward to an album of sparkeling beauty. Where it will fall short is the lack of catchy pop hooks and lyrics that stay with you all day like those on SP's first two albums. The first half of the songs on the album start out at a slow pace while some percussion appears in the back half to create a little more toe tapping and head bobbing, all the while layered with GL's soothingly smooth vocals.
Any fan of Snowpatrol will appreciate this album, as well as Belle and Sebastian fans if they are not expecting Stuarts witty sarcasm to appear anywhere. Oh, by the way members of Mogwai, Astrid, V-twin, Mull Historical Society, Eva, Arab Strap and Hercules appear as well (good luck finding most of these bands).

I just got this album, only because I am fans of Snow Patrol, and Belle and Sebastian (Mainly Looper), but I must say, this album opened me up to many other bands, not to mention thoughts and memories. This album has the basic acoustics, pleasant harmony vocals, and at times, eerie uprising "Oh-hs".

This cd features great indie-rock talents, and the ability to calm the listener down, but I am a bit dissapointed some of the bands featured here barely play a chord, or hardly show off their talents. However this is made up for by the other bands. I guess your basic idea is that this Reindeer Section is a complete band within itself, which is cool with me, but still I was listening for some Looper in there, which I didn't get.

Bottom line: The cd is great for those that enjoy soft music, and don't mind waiting a while for the good stuff. However, it may take a few times to listen to it, to get used to liking it. In my case, 2 times, but that's just me. It's an okay album.

Before I complain about what's wrong with this album let me tell you what's right. It's gorgeous, slightly baroque indie-pop at nearly it's finest. It's amazing that this album was slapped together in 10 days. It's a real testament to the talents and professionalism of all those invloved--- and those involved include a veritable who's-who or British Isle's indie music: member or Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol, Astrid, Arab Strap, etc. I guess you could call Reindeer section a "super group"-- except, it comes across as more of a Gary Lightbody (of Snow Patrol) solo album. And therein lies its "problem". It just strikes me that with all these great musicians in one room for two weeks, they could have been a little more collaborative. Instead, most of the players sound like competent side-man rather than co-visionaries. At least Lightbody could have shared the mic a little more. The best track on the record by a wide margin is the stunning "Nytol" featuring creepy-sex-obsesser Aidan Mofat (of Arab Strap) on vocals-- I could listen to this guy sing anything. Just listen to the way he sings/says the word "idiot". That makes the track great by itself. "Nytol", to me seems like a glimpse of what could have been given a little more democracy. Instead we are left with what sounds like a very lovely, slightly quieter Snow Patrol album.

Nice smooth album. If you are a fan of Gary Lightbody you will really like the music. It's more mellow than the past few Snow Patrol albums, but a nice relaxing listen. I would recommend this cd.

This is an interesting mostly Scottish super-indie-group led by the vocalist of Snow Patrol (Irish, not Scottish). If you only heard the Snow Patrol tracks from pseudo-alternative terrestrial radio or some lame network show, you won't like this. If you love the experimental tendencies of Songs for Polar Bears, or if you recognize the Glasgow elite on this disc, you will love this.

I bought this album at the same time that I bought a Bob Dylan and a Modest Mouse album, and between those drastically different, often rambunctious sounds, this one sort of got lost. But I still left it in my stereo, going round and round, never paying much attention to it, until one day when I happened to be talking to someone that I was falling for big time. Then this darn cd jumped out and grabbed me by the throat, like it had been waiting for just the right moment to ambush me. Very laid back, almost but not quite too laid back, this album has a ton of gorgeous depth to it. Like I said, listen to it while you're falling in love, if at all possible. :D