JM
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Wicked Album
Two seasons is a hypnotic mixture of styles with thought provoking and very relevant lyrics. The album is a unique and addictive guitarless (yes!) rock album which brings together wide influences and styles. The, at times, insistent and at other times ethereal lyrics combine with some wicked synths to deliver an album that is on the most played list on my ipod. “A song for now”, “Summers loves” and the penultimate track, “That part of the story” hit the spot for me. Wicked Album
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Steve Paine
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Two Seasons
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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Suzi Poole
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Two Seasons
Simply bloody fantastic! Original, inspired, catchy, well-produced and thought provoking. Hugely enjoyable from an experienced, British, musical talent. I am One is one to watch out 4!
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Graham Sugarlump Evans
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re-make re-model
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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JimBob (guitarist, etc,. 'DevilBase')
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..he plays a devilish bass..
The best albums are the ones that transport you to another mood, another place, another world; ‘Revolver’ ‘Pet Sounds’, ‘Exile on Main Street’, ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ ‘Hunky Dory’, ‘The Wall’, ‘Older’, ‘OK Computer’, ‘Urban Hymns’ ‘Dummy’ etc,.
I picked up a guitar again after years of disillusionment because Mark sounded like all my heroes rolled in to one; The Beach Boys, Bowie, Ferry, and Morrissey; I started playing with other people and got disenchanted again. It was bland, I was bland. Then I started playing & writing with Mark the sort of stuff I’d always wanted too; atmospheric, emotive, moody, dark, trippy…thoughtful… The reason I love working with Mark is because with him I can make the kind of music that people feel, rather than just listen too.
When Mark gave me a copy of ‘Two Seasons’, I uploaded it, and listened to it all day. It takes you to a very different place, a very different space, a space I’m very happy to be in time and time again – and one that gives me hope, no easy task! Marks voice is beyond anything you’ll here today, it’s truly surreal and beautiful, his bass playing is unusual, non generic, wild but controlled, different, and brilliant for it. His songs are thoughtful, intelligent, exuberant & subtle, and make you think (the chillingly beautiful, ‘Surveillance’).
Get the album people, Mark is a Legend…and, he is one.
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