Together Is the New Alone

Artist: Donnacha Costello
Label: Efa Imports
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 718752310420
EAN: 0718752310420
ASIN: B00005NYCA

Release Date: 2001-10-16

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Tracks:

Slowly Sinking In
Awake On The Fifth Floor
In Spite Of Everything
Your New God
Daydream Belief
That Empty Feeling
And I Got Left Behind
Nothing, Still Nothing
Dry Retch
Always A Part

Customer Reviews:

Music?.......2005-12-20

Is this album really music? It has basically no tune or beat to it. If you like the sound of computers or robots you might like this but this is not for people who like melodies and beats in their music.

Music for Sad, Sleepless Nights?.......2004-12-08

This is about as quiet and minimal as sound and rhythm can possibly get and still be called "music." The rhythms are not much more than the tiniest of white noise and clicks, in the DSP tradition of electronic music of the late 90s and early 2000s. The synthesized sounds are gentle, repetitive, and never pretend to be anything more than synthesized sounds, nothing remotely sounding like a violin or piano. Only the closing track, "always a part" has a familiar sound, that of a very persistent electronic snare drum, layered on top of a repetitive synth progression so reminiscent of Eno's `Music for Airports.' The repetitive nature of the sounds reminds me somehow of the early music of the Cure, also at times touching on hopelessness and despair.

On his album "Together is the New Alone," Mr. Costello has done something unusual in that he's created an ambient music that describes a landscape, but that landscape is perhaps the internal emotional landscape of a hopeless and downtrodden person. Three months later and I simply cannot stop listening.

For more good recent ambient electronic, see also Loscil, "First Narrows"

Moody, minimal, mellifluous.......2004-02-06

I've been listening to this album a lot in the last month or so. At first it made hardly any impression, but it got deeper and sweeter every time I heard it. The title is, I assume, a sardonic riff on 'Quiet Is the New Loud' by Kings of Convenience. Where that album is acoustic, this is electronic. And where that one is melancholy, this one is quite downbeat. Both albums share a lovely sense of minimalism -- never using two notes where one would do; never using two instruments where one (or none!) would do. Costello's album is never harsh or brutal or mean, but there is definitely a sense of despair running through it. But hey, that's part of the 21st century vibe. We can handle it. If you like Dub Tractor, you'll like this. And if you like Mokira, you'll like this -- though it's more minimal than Mokira. (If you can't imagine anything more minimal than Mokira, this is probably NOT the album for you.) I'm listening to it now and it's a lovely, lovely thing. By the way, Costello's previous album, 'Growing Up In Public', is also nice... but more conventional and less remarkable than this one. Peace.

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