Evanescence - Anywhere But Home (w/ bonus DVD)
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Artist: EvanescenceEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Music Label: Wind-Up
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Haunted
- Going Under
- Taking Over Me
- Everybody's Fool
- Thoughtless
- My Last Breath
- Farther Away
- Breathe No More
- My Immortal
- Bring Me To Life
- Tourniquet
- Imaginary
- Whisper
- Missing (previously unreleased audio track - studio recording)
- Bring Me to Life (music video)
- Going Under (music video)
- My Immortal (music video)
- Everybody's Fool (music video)
- Behind-the-Scenes video program
- Haunted
- Going Under
- Taking Over Me
- Everybody?s Fool
- Thoughtless
- My Last Breath
- Farther Away
- Breathe No More
- My Immortal
- Bring Me to Life
- Tourniquet
- Imaginary
- Whisper
- Missing (previously unreleased audio track - studio recording)
Music reviews of Anywhere But Home (w/ bonus DVD)
Music Review: Great live CD and music videos; the concert is problematic.
Rating: 5 Stars
There have been artists in the past couple of years I've liked more than this band -- Kathleen Edwards, for example -- but none of them were as good at presenting themselves visually as this band.
Is it taste? Good choice in collaborators? The mystique of the band? Or all of the above? Regardless of the reason, this package is an excellent audio-visual representation of the band. Because there are so many components in this release, I'll have to break them down.
The live CD is very well done, with good performances and mixing. I own all of the singles from the Fallen album and have always been impressed by the quality of this band's live recordings, and this live CD is no exception. "Breathe No More" is especially revelatory, with gorgeously spare acoustic guitar lines, a subdued backbeat and Amy Lee's crystalline voice forming a perfect coalition. Just mind-blowing. There are discrepancies in levels from track to track, a minor flaw, so be prepared to adjust your volume levels, and the CD booklet messed up the track listing, which isn't outwardly visible on the package. Next time, guys, put the track listing on the back of the CD box!
The live CD sounds good, the concert portion of the DVD does not. The shooting and editing of this live footage is impressive; this looks like the work of somebody who knows how to cut music and performance and conveys the energy of the music and musicians well. But somebody in the DVD production seems to have botched the sound. I don't know if it's because of the recording -- judging from the good quality of Evanescence's live audio material, this is highly unlikely, so chances are it happened in post-production. Not only are the levels far too low, but there seems to be a big space missing somewhere in the mix. Throughout the DVD concert I felt like as if there's a vacuum somewhere in front of me and to the right. Perhaps a frequency range under-represented. In any case, everybody -- Lee, the guitar players, the backbeat -- is low in volume, and get ready to have your ears blasted the minute you hit the menu button to go from the DVD concert to the main menu. The difference in volume must be at least 6dB. Such a shame, because if this concert had a sound mix like the live CD here, it would be killer. Though the band is now inching towards superstar status, there's still a disarming innocence about both the band and its audience, such as when Lee invites the audience to sing along to "My Immortal". Her face seems to open up, as if slightly embarrassed by the gesture, but touched by the audience's reception.
The DVD includes all the videos made by the band up to now, and they are some of the most well done I've seen in years. I've made plain my dislike of modern music videos, but these ones recall the golden era of the form. With the exception of "Bring Me to Life" (nice staging, limited concepts), the videos are well tailored to their songs. Finally, we get video directors who pay attention to the lyrics! I'd never seen "Everybody's Fool" before this, and it floored me. Who said a goth-metal band can't have a sense of humour? The dark hotel-room nightmare is harrowing -- Lee plays the character as a drug addict in withdrawal. "Going Under" is a good, solid performance video, and "My Immortal" is more about shots than story, but it far surpasses most concept videos today just by virtue of shot variety; this is one video that doesn't look like it was shot in one day, and is emotionally true to the music. And the image of ex-guitarist Ben Moody alone at the piano, separate from the band, is both affecting -- and revelatory, just like the famous "Ian Curtis ghost" in New Order's "Perfect Kiss".
A few points ducked for the horrible sound mix on the concert DVD, but otherwise, this is an extremely satisfying release, made even more so by its modest price. Overall, thumbs up.
(A final word to certain other reviewers: You're not supposed to treat live albums like regular releases. Few live albums contain many new songs. Know the distinction!)
Description of Anywhere But Home (w/ bonus DVD)
Evanescence?s "Anywhere But Home", captures one night of the magic as cameras entered The Zenith in Paris to capture the phenomenon. The two-disc DVD/CD features Evanescence?s sold-out European tour and is offered in both 5.1 and two-track audio mixes. In addition to the live concert DVD, which was directed by Hamish Hamilton (U2, Peter Gabriel), "Anywhere But Home" also includes a CD of the concert presented in a two-track mix, and the previously unreleased studio recording of the composition "Missing." The DVD features the band's four music videos, an hour-long behind-the-scenes program, and some special surprises in addition to the concert film. The special surprises will be discovered by the viewer as they navigate the menus designed exclusively for this special release.Essentially a live showcase for their mega-selling breakthrough Fallen, this CD/DVD combo set chronicles Evanescence in peak form during a subsequent tour stop in Paris. The performances here lean early on the crunch of guitarists John Lecompt and Terry Balsamo (reaching a peak on the the band's potent cover of Korn's "Thoughtless"), but ultimately revolve around the melodramatic, goth-rooted vocal charisma of singer Amy Lee. It's on stripped-down, yet still larger-than-life takes of "Bring Me to Life" and "My Immortal," as well as the shadowy grace of "Breathe No More," that Lee stakes her claim to the alt.diva throne. Taken as a whole, the forceful renditions here argue that this live recording was hardly premature, instead well documenting the band's more direct musical tack and considerable live chops. The CD contains the appropriately named, previously unreleased studio track "Missing," while the DVD supplements its crisply shot and edited concert performances with four videos and an hour of documentary footage and interviews. --Jerry McCulley
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