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You Brought Us Here

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A friend recommended this CD to me and I HIGHLY recommend it to others.

Track 1, Long Beach is my favorite, with rich guitar drone and a very very catchy bass line. Perfect song. The other songs range from beautiful melodic pieces to outright noise. It all seems to meld perfectly together.

This is definitely one of the best dream pop records I've come across in a looong time. There are lots of imitators, but Bethany Curve stands alone. Get this CD!

I just received this CD. It's incredible! Lots of great guitar sounds and catchy melodies.

I was in Tower Records in SF last week and heard the first track, "Long Beach" over the PA system and bought the CD immediately. The best I can describe it is a giant wave of distorted tones that together make incredible melodies. Not for the fragile minded. Some very moody and beautiful stuff. Going from one song to the next is like chapters in a book. Each song has a different story to tell.

What else can I add to what's already been written? If you like space rock (like Spiritualized), shoegaze/dream pop (like Slowdive) and/or musical introspection, then this CD will blow your mind! Through the beautiful background noise pierces transcendent reverberating guitars that will take you away to blissful splendour. I've been reading a lot of Jungian books lately, and this was the perfect soundtrack, so to speak, for Jung's ideas on the archetypes of the unconscious and the mythologies of the mind. Your imagination will flow; creativity will abound. True avant-garde rock. Buy this!

Yes sir, they certainly did. I recently attended a Bethany Curve concert in southern California and it was quite a treat. I expected to hear the typical "shoegaze" sound that thousands of bands are exploiting right now (do they realize that they all sound the same?). Anyway, Bethany Curve's presentation of music is beyond the ordinary "shoegaze" sound. Their music incorporates a unique dash of moodiness in every song. Something that is just not done correctly by anyone else. "You Brought Us Here" presents that moodiness is a great way. This record has a particular rawness that is perfect for their style. It's a rawness that grabs you and doesn't let go. I highly recommend the songs Long Beach and Airplanes Down.

"You Brought Us Here" is possibly their best effort yet. When I first listened to all the tracks, I knew this album was a masterpiece. While Bethany Curve is indeed labeled as a shoegaze band, they don't sound like the quite vapid "nu-gaze" bands from the past decade. These guys have been around since the original shoegaze movement in the UK was dying down. The tracks have layer upon layer of beautiful guitar tracks, pounding bass lines, and riveting drums. My personal favorite off the album is "Silver", but I don't think any song on the album disappoints. The vocals are all washed and drowned through the melodic, sometimes melancholic guitars, and it all creates a very relaxing mood.

Definitely pick this up if you're looking for some interesting shoegaze music, especially if you're a BC fan and haven't listened to this before!

Even though Bethany Curve continued to follow their self-described credo -"atmosphere arrangement sound layering noise," the band's third album "You Brought Us Here," simply doesn't measure up to their first two ("Skies A Crossed Sky" and "Gold"). Sure, it has the one great song "Long Beach," which is clearly one of the band's best (and according to IPod, their most downloaded track). Indeed "Long Beach" has its sublime moments. But besides "Silver" which, to my mind, is basically another version of "Long Beach," the album kind of meanders along with gloomy atmospheric music that becomes downright tedious. Some of the tracks might have benefitted from some drastic editing, but it's hard to say.

As an atmospheric meditative exercise, "You Brought Us Here," isn't bad. And it does have that one great song. But I don't think it's comparable to Bethany Curve's first two albums which I like quite a bit more and find much more exciting.

This is Bethany Curve's best effort to date. The CD is rich with lush soundscapes and melodies topped off with hints of well captured noise.

Okay, how can I even describe this properly. If you like dream-pop, space rock, shoegaze, darkwave, etc, you will love this record.