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Thread: Album Club: 17.01.2012: These New Puritans - Hidden (2010)

  1. #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bazil View Post
    I'm struggling with this a bit, but I like to give albums a fair chance so won't vote just yet.
    I must admit that I'm the same - but I never vote until I've heard the album at least twice, so there's still hope yet!
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    This is one of those albums where I can't decide whether it's magnificent or it's horribly over-rated.

    On a bad day I get visions of some 1980s BBC2 arts programme in which this is the soundtrack to a modern ballet about life in an industrial town (don't ask me why !) - a bundle of random tribal drumming, brass, choral and woodwind. All very worthy but...

    On a good day it's rich, varied and suitably challenging, and should be applauded for not coming from an obvious pigeonhole.

    Still can't decide which mind

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    I kind of agree with Pete's assessment of this. This probably means I need to play it a few more times.
    Some of it seems a little awkward in that, at times, a track could almost be badly stitched together from two completely different ones, but at other times the effect is the total opposite(such as some of the woodwind sections).
    What I can hear (even through Spotify) is some well recorded drums and maybe even (dare I say it) a very slight FZ/MOI influence?

    A somewhat tentative 6/10 from me.

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    In the end I could only give it 5 out of 10. Maybe with a few more listens it might grow on me more.
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    I played it again, twice - still not sure, either! At the moment it gets a 7, but that could go up or down a notch or two on further listens... The point is, unlike some of the other Album Club weeks, I want to listen again...
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    I have now given this album enough plays to rate and I'm afraid its only a 4 from me.
    I find it interesting to start with but it quickly becomes tedious and ends up like I'm wading through thick mud.

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    Quite interesting but I found it a bit repetitive after a while.
    I like the use of brass, well i would, but the whole concept gets lost imo.
    I wouldn't buy this. I would listen to it again though.
    Just under halfway I think.
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    Played it again this morning - I really like it - the drums/percussion is really imaginative and different from any formula - 7 out of 10 for me.
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    Kinda Kodo meets synth noodlings. Overall it wouldn't be my choice of music so it gets 4/10. Great to hear such variety of styles being suggested in Album Club, though.

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