Alone, Not Alone

Alone, Not Alone Artist: Montag
Label: Carpark Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 677517002829
EAN: 0677517002829
ASIN: B0007NBABS


Release Date: 2005-03-01

Alone, Not Alone


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Tracks:

  1. Le Temps D'Observer Les Voies Ouvertes
  2. Grand Luxe
  3. Temps Partiel
  4. Perfect Vision
  5. All I See
  6. Time Difference II
  7. Figures Of A New Color
  8. Motif
  9. Angles, Country & Terrain Connu
  10. Les Choses Se Placent
  11. Exit Melodie
  12. .

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Album Description

Montreal's MONTAG (aka ANTOINE BEDARD) got lonely making music by himself. After working all alone on his first record for France's Gooom Disques (M83, CYANN & BEN), Antoine decided it was time to share his knowledge of arrangement and orchestration by enlisting the help of friends such as James Cargill of BROADCAST (Warp Records, Drag City), Amy Millan from STARS and BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE (Arts & Crafts), and SIXTOO (Ninja Tune, Anticon). With its strings, horns, wind instruments, layered vocals, and analog synths, Montag's Alone, Not Alone has a lush sophisticated sound that helps redefine classic electric pop.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Igloo Magazine's REVIEW.......2005-12-03

Review by: Mark Teppo at [...]
(02.18.05) Antoine Bédard has seduced M83; it is his string compositions which grace their recently released Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute, 2005). Now, with his second release as Montag -- Alone, Not Alone -- he's out to entice the rest of us with his delicate micro-symphonies and elegantly weightless pop. Shining with a digital polish, his analog melodies and orchestral flourishes caper and cavort like Disney-fied animals in a field of sunflowers while he and his vocalists (Amy Millan on two tracks, Ariel Engle on one) wander through the trackless fields of flowers in a haze of wistful nostalgia. Taken as a thematic statement, the title of the record captures the dichotomy of the modern creative process: the digital abstraction which huffs and squirts and whispers across the tracks arrayed against the bountiful echoes of the collaborative aspect of pop songs wherein the writer directs a band, a string ensemble and a bevy of vocalists.

The slow brush of percussion and the wandering woodwind section of "Figures of a New Color" paint a rain-swept city street (Paris, in my mind, naturally), populated by the slumbering motion of forgotten lovers, their nostalgia for their lost companions gently pushing them along the water-stained streets. The melancholic narrative voice of "All I See" drips with heartache, a palpable resonance behind his words and the delicate and wry melody. Processed field recordings sneak in for the last two minutes of "Perfect Vision" and drain away all the Mazzy Star-esque heartbreak that has lingers in the wake of Amy Millan's voice. Clavecin, organ and brushed cymbal spin into the early twilight in the penultimate "Exit Mélodie" as the solitary odes of Alone, Not Alone draw to a conclusion; this final fade is tempered, naturally, by a re-visitation of the song for the last track by the combined percussion, strings and winds who have provided material on preceding tracks, an affirmation of the belief that not all solitary travelers are alone.

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