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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
August 07, 2007
Studio:
Red Int / Red Ink
Number Of Discs:
1
Average Customer Rating:
based on 103 reviews
Description:
Since their inception in 1996, the praise for Australian quintet Augie March in their homeland has literally poured in from critics and a passionate following. With the release of Moo, You Bloody Choir, their third full-length album and first major label release in the states, US audiences will finally have a chance to hear one of the most impassioned and poetic bands in Australia's rich musical history.
Track Listing:
1.
One Crowded Hour
2.
Victoria's Secrets
3.
The Cold Acre
4.
Stranger Strange
5.
Mother Greer
6.
The Honey Month
7.
Just Passing Through
8.
Thin Captain Crackers
9.
Bottle Baby
10.
The Baron Of Sentiment
11.
There Is No Such Place
12.
Clockwork
13.
Vernoona
Customer Reviews:
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promisingNov 14, 2008 This album has quite a few excellent moments, particularly where lyrics and sound come into a kind of agreement. They're more literate than most, without being egg-heads, and able to construct some good melodies. I am less thrilled with the music per se, which tends to smear into brown-noise and has a hard time maintaining an idea. Production is much too dense. I'd love to hear some of these songs pared down, stripped of excess wall-of-noise-ness.
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Solomon BellowedApr 18, 2008 It grew on me. From the first to the second listenning. But not much. I appreciate the freeness of this CD from the vine program, and understand that I need to review it to get more free stuff. So that being said, it's alright. When I listen to it on my iPod, my gait slows down. I imagine I am the lead character of a hacky prime time drama, thinking vaguely profound voiced-over thoughts as I stare off dreamily while the music comes on. I enjoy that. But not enough to listen through three times. That said, I'm sure these guys are perfectly lovely, and I appreciate the Saul Bellow reference.
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Truly beautiful albumApr 15, 2008 Right from the spine-tingling opener "One Crowded Hour", Augie March sneaks up in your subconscious like a cruise missile rather than bluntly shoving hooks in your face like many in popular music today. The gentle landscapes painted by their laid-back musical style and poetic, softly crooned lyrics generate an introspective, calm feeling. Augie March are a treasure and continue to produce awe-inspiring, grow-on-you music.
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WORTHWHILE SIGNATUREMar 04, 2008 Augie March apparently took the Australian music industry by surprise when they won album of the year and I'm not sure the album manages sustained excellence so much as a couple real high points and intermittent neat turns of phrase. But just give a listen to its signature song, One Crowded Hour, and it's hard to imagine any band recorded a better one.
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BlandMar 03, 2008 I like a lot of Australian bands: Midnight Oil, The Birthday Party (everything Nick Cave for that matter), Ghostwriters, AC/DC, Regurgitator, Dirty Three, Yothu Yindi, etc. So to hear a band described as, "...one of the most impassioned and poetic bands in Australia's rich musical history" sets expectations pretty high. Needless to say from the two star rating, I think a bit of hyperbole was employed in writing that bit of publicity about the band.
They aren't terrible by any stretch of the imagination, but neither are they particularly remarkable. It kind of sounds like most bands heard on corporate radio, which is to say, competent performers that don't leave much of an impression on me. "One Crowded Hour" gave me high hopes for the record as it is a pretty solid song, but unfortunately, that was as good as it got for me.
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