Sleep and Release

Aereogramme - Sleep and Release

Sleep and Release
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Artist: Aereogramme
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-02-18
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Indiscretion #243
  2. Black Path
  3. A Simple Process of Elimination
  4. Older
  5. No Really, Everything's Fine
  6. Wood
  7. Yes
  8. In Gratitude
  9. A Winter's Discord

Music reviews of Sleep and Release

Music Review: Great potential...but I'll pass...
Rating: 2 Stars

I'm writing a review of this album to balance out the more enthusiastic reviews with a more sober account.

This band has great potential. In fact, compared to the tripe garbage that the masses readily consume, they sound pretty good. It's just the ground they cover has been covered so many times before.

Their songs are heavily layered with distorted guitars, chimes, violins, a few random sound samples, and even a harp melody on the piece, "A simple process of elimination", which is actually very pretty. Track 10, which is hidden, also has some very interesting drumming, and very beautiful folksey violin melody. The layering lends to a very lush soundscape. The rhythm from song to song is varied enough. The song structure and melodies usually aim for wistful, tragic, and melodramatic pop hooks, somewhat akin to Radiohead, and especially Muse, except there might be some Mogwai thrown in there as well.

From the first listen onward I knew something was amiss with this album. The soundscape, as lush as it may be, "sounds" flat. There is so much layering at times that some of the instruments lose their emotional impact. The vocalist, Craig B. usually sings in a high range tone that is slightly whiny and effeminate, occasionally he breaks out into rather powerful blood curdling screams. According to Wikipedia he lost his voice for six months from screaming so much. The lyrics really do not impress me. They are the sterotypically vague personal lyrics, which really give me no idea of what Craig is trying to sing about. FOR EXAMPLE:

It's time to follow the black path
And come tommorow you won't laugh at love
Faced down you can see the ground turn
From green and red, black to grey
Where everyone becomes afraid of you

How am I supposed to interpret this? I guess I'm at a place where I want a vocalist to sing lyrics that are specific and descriptive. I want lyrics that address personal, social, or political issues in a creative and detailed manner, or at least more detailed than the lyrics cited above.

The song structure and melodies are even more frustrating. Many of the songs just too short and "radio friendly" for my taste. Just when this group starts to milk a REALLY interesting passage, they have a nasty habit of going on to something else, or end the song altogether, which is usually boring. This habit lends to an undeveloped and anti-climatic sound, and not even in a purposeful way. It's just jarring and annoying.

Speaking of jarring. The transitions between some of these songs can be rather crude. The end of many of these songs just cuts off abruptly, and immediately throws the listener into another song, full scale. For me, this method of production does not allow for reflection on, and recovery from the previous song. It also doesn't adequately prepare you for next song. Needless to say, this REALLY bugged me.

There is no doubt this band is talented, but it takes more than talent to please my ear, and unfortunately, my ears were not impressed.

Description of Sleep and Release

'Aereogramme make smart, politically charged music out of pungent patchworks of seemingly disparate genres' - Entertainment Weekly. The second album from this Glasgow quartet is a work of epic proportions, containing intricate & anthemic guitar-based music. Matador. 2003.

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