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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It makes everything easier..., October 12, 2001
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?
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Slowcore with Balls, September 28, 2001
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.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not really Belle and Sebastian, but just as good., September 26, 2001
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).
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