Two Seasons
© Copyright-I am One
(884502254525)
Record Label: Worried Racoon Records
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Two Seasons - written and recorded between New Years eve 2008 and the first of June 2009. Two Seasons is the sound of hope for better times and despair at the moment we live in. Musically, I wanted to make a Rock 'n' Roll album without guitars. Lyrically, I wanted to reflect the hopes and fears of the moment: "Put Your Head Up!" - a repetitive cry not to lose heart, to be bold of spirit. "John Dillinger Died for You" - a call to arms against the bankers of this world (when John Dillinger, a depression era gangster, robbed banks, the public didn't cower in fear, they applauded him, as banks and bankers were hated even more then, than they are now). "Summer Loves to Greet Bee" - the timeless endless beauty of a summer day. "That Part of the Song" - a sweet and tranquil regression to the simpler days of youth, when time and any sense of order are blurred by the joy of a day spent with your life's greatest love. "One by One" - the fall and fall of the good and the great as seen through the eyes of a reader of The Sun.
Two Seasons * Summer and Winter
"Bowie and a toaster on Jupiter" - BD Booze
"Get the album people....Mark is a legend" - Jimbob Devilbase
"Juxtaposition is a word that sums up this album... it has the recognisable and the incomprehensible, the avant-garde and the eminently listenable - no mean feat in itself. Built on a foundation of drums, percussion and bass, after that all bets are off with the electronics at once bewildering and satisfying and the multi-faceted vocals weaving a soundtrack that is challenging, compulsive and yet down right catchy. For me this echoes the 3rd and 4th Peter Gabriel albums of the early 80's in the way that its sonic textures are unique there is no comfort zone or common reference point - not to say this sounds at all derivertive or 80's this is probably the most contemporary album I've heard this century.
Lyrically this album varies from the hypnotic chant to the thought provoking and then to the surreal and at times it sends those chills down your spine as you realise it is telling you what you feared all along... A masterful performance and dare I say it a tour de force - if that's sounds cliched bear in mind cliches are there because they happen to be true!
The press release declares this as an 'album for the credit crunch' I would suggest that this album will still be around long after the credit crunch has become a soggy chewed up yesterday! In conclusion I wish I had produced this album!" - Steve Paine Legend
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Cool
author: ukemonkey
Loving this experiMENTAL album - catchy, avant garde, sweetly sinister, like walking round your local supermarket wearing lavalamp shades. Such vocal talent should be bottled or banned it soars and saws through you. Really quite good.
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re-make re-model
author: Graham Sugarlump Evans
wow its not often I come across an album that holds no demands mr attention so compulsivley as did the first Roxy Music album " To start, it wasn't the kind of music that categorized easily, but it was also far too interesting to ignore with its combination of glam rock pomposity, sleazy Vegas-style lounge, and a solid backbone of straight-up rock & roll"
All the above also applies to the bi-polar sounds on 2 seasons strangley beautiful, depressingly uplifting, timelessly now and downright freakin weird! Right up my street .This guy knows how to mess with my head, long may it remain messy .
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So Original
author: Ash M
As a recording engineer I haven't heard anything quite like this, it's great to hear something so refreshing and different from a UK artist. I'm still trying to get Summer Love out of my head!
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Two Seasons
author: Steve Paine
Juxtaposition is a word that sums up this album... it has the recognisable and the incomprehensible, the avant-garde and the eminently listenable - no mean feat in itself. Built on a foundation of drums, percussion and bass, after that all bets are off with the electronics at once bewildering and satisfying and the multi-faceted vocals weaving a soundtrack that is challenging, compulsive and yet down right catchy. For me this echoes the 3rd and 4th Peter Gabriel albums of the early 80's in the way that its sonic textures are unique there is no comfort zone or common reference point - not to say this sounds at all derivertive or 80's this is probably the most contemporary album I've heard this century.
Lyrically this album varies from the hypnotic chant to the thought provoking and then to the surreal and at times it sends those chills down your spine as you realise it is telling you what you feared all along... A masterful performance and dare I say it a tour de force - if that's sounds cliched bear in mind cliches are there because they happen to be true!
The press release declares this as an 'album for the credit crunch' I would suggest that this album will still be around long after the credit crunch has become a soggy chewed up yesterday! In conclusion I wish I had produced this album!
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