Home for an Island

Home for an Island Artist: The Exit
Label: Wind-Up
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 601501311321
EAN: 0601501311321
ASIN: B000B5Y03M


Release Date: 2005-10-11

Home for an Island


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Tracks:

  1. Don't Push
  2. Let's Go To Haiti
  3. Back To The Rebels
  4. Home For An Island
  5. Pressure Cooker
  6. Tell Me All Again
  7. The Sun Will Rise In Queens
  8. Soldier
  9. Warm Summer Days
  10. Darlin
  11. So Leave Then
  12. Already Gone

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars I left my home to buy Home for an Island. .......2006-05-16

I could easily give this album 10 stars. It was one of the last albums I bought in 2005 and it was by far one of the best that i've bought period. I just recently bought there earlier album "New Beat" I can't believe the difference in these 2 records. "Home for an island" is a much much much better album. This album has alot to offer for everyone. The musical styles change and shift throughout the album and it keeps things interesting. This is an album that for me, it's impossible to get bored with. It's confident, creative, dynamic, cohesive and one of the funest albums to listen to. The drums alone make this album worth buying. It's not often you come across a band that can write music that's so different and new, yet so catchy and listenable. The Exit rocks.

4 out of 5 stars A taste for everyone.......2006-03-11

This was a solid purchase. If you have an ear for a very diverse sounding band, then you should appreciate these guys. Catchy melodies and strangely different yet appealing beats should keep any music lover listening, especially those in tune with an indie rock type sound.

5 out of 5 stars New Progressive Rock. .......2005-11-06

The new album "Home for an Island" by The Exit may signal the direction that that guitar rock is taking: 'back to the future'. This is "progressive rock". The album does have emo and pop punk influences, but also draws it's strength from the "classic rock" era circa the mid-late 70s and early 80s. In fact, I bet that you could have released this album in 1978 and it would have been played on most progressive rock stations.

The drummer sounds a lot like Neil Pert, the bassist sounds a lot like Sting, The guitarist sounds like lots of people, all good. The band likes to go on "serious jams" (that's a technical term that us rock academics use for extended, improvisational drum and guitar instrumental streaks and solos) some verging on some of the art rock of the 70s.

The song development is fairly involved. The band really goes to town when they write a bridge, I mean some of the bridges are pretty impressive. They also write multiple choruses in the same song. The songs build and build until they reach some pretty indulgent crescendos that would make any arena rocker proud. The title track is a prime example. This way of composing songs in several movements with lots of development and syphonic flare is why I think this album belongs in the Classic Rock genre.

Much of the vocal styles, is rooted in newer sounds of emo and the music is actually pretty original. Another surprise that classic rock fans will welcome is the lyrics, which comment frequently on modern Western culture and politics without being pretentious.

Overall, It's a pretty solid, rockin' album. I cruised around with it in my car for a few weeks. It's leaps above the band's first album, which I don't own, but checked out. There are plenty of good songs on the album. They definitely have potential. If you like serious guitar rock that's not "heavy metal", check it out. Looking forward to The Exit's next installment.

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  2. BBC Radio 1971-1974 ~ Soft Machine
  3. In Blood ~ Billy Childish & Holly Golightly
  4. Love Songs ~ The Bee Gees
  5. Our Swedish Collection ~ Dr. Hook
  6. The Essential Stabbing Westward ~ Stabbing Westward
  7. Rise Above ~ Epic Soundtracks
  8. It's Like Magic in Reverse ~ The Talk
  9. Rusty ~ Rodan
  10. May Street Project ~ Shea Seger

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Marilynmba ~ David Wright

Niente Da Capire ~ Francesco De Gregori

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