Label: Jet Set Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 604978004529
EAN: 0604978004529
ASIN: B0000666WD
Release Date: 2002-05-21
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Artist: Tram
Label: Jet Set Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 604978004529 EAN: 0604978004529 ASIN: B0000666WD Release Date: 2002-05-21 |
A Kind of Closure
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Slo-mo, downbeat miserablists Tram return with their third album, the suitably tear-stained <I>A Kind of Closure</I>. Critical acclaim and a secure record deal do not seem to have eased their resolutely pervasive mood of melancholy. Singer Paul Anderson continues his fruitless dissection of relationships and disappointment, enveloping the mournful themes in stripped-down, otherworldy gentle plucks of guitar and piano. The songs are not joyless, however; the gorgeous, countrified pace of "Painful Education" belies Anderson's opening gambit of "So what is there to show / For all these battered years." The themes may be end-of-the-world bed-sit gloom, but the songs are so beautifully structured and delicate that the misery is made wondrous by its life-affirming music. The opener, "Three Years," is an impressive slice of dramatic, dark pop about someone who has "detected a joy he knew was a flaw," but the swooning, emotional pull of the song suggests the man can still see hope on the horizon. Low have been oft posited as Tram's spiritual comrades, but Tram perfect a particular, unwavering kind of melancholy that could only come from Britain. Tram wallow in their sadness, but do it beautifully. <I>--Suzannah Brown</I>Album Description
The 3rd and finest release yet from this CMJ top UK group. Jetset Records. 2002.Customer Reviews:
Continuation of downbeat sound of earlier albums.......2002-08-05
"Painful Education" seamlessly weaves pedal steel into the mix of slowly strummed acoustics, violin, piano and bass, and the muted horn arrangement and cymbal-work of "Theme" sit heavily in the air like the clouds of an approaching storm. Spare, delicate ballads like "Forgive Me Dear" and "Fools" unfold in super-slow motion - like non-ironic versions of Nick Lowe's "Endless Sleep."
With titles like "The Hope Has Been Taken Away," "You Let Me Down," and "Forgive Me Dear" Tram's latest LP is likely to please those who mope to The Smiths or tuck themselves away in their dorm rooms for repeated listenings of Leonard Cohen.
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