Kick Up the Fire, And Let the Flames Break Loose

Kick Up the Fire, And Let the Flames Break Loose Artist: The Cooper Temple Clause
Label: Bmg
Category: Music


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


UPC: 828765556521
EAN: 0828765556521
ASIN: B0000AOYBY


Release Date: 2007-01-30

Kick Up the Fire, And Let the Flames Break Loose


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Tracks:

  1. The Same Mistakes
  2. Promises, Promises
  3. New Toys
  4. Talking To A Brick Wall
  5. Into My Arms
  6. Blind Pilots
  7. A.I.M.
  8. Music Box
  9. In Your Prime
  10. Written Apology

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Album Description

Full title - Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose. UK limited edition of 2003 album includes a bonus DVD (PAL) with all 6 of the band's videos to date, 'Promises, Promises' (Video), 'Promises, Promises' (Video - Making Of), 'Let's Kill Music' (Video), 'Film-Maker' (Video), 'Been Training Dogs' (Video), 'Who Needs Enemies?' (Video), & four exclusive DVD/Audio tracks recorded at the end of the band's spring/summer 2003 tour at the Kentish Town Forum, London, 'Promises, Promises' (Live), 'Blind Pilots' (Live), 'The Same Mistakes' (Live), & 'A.I.M' (Live). 20 tracks in all. Morning Records. Copy Controlled.

Album Details

Sophomore Album from the Alternative English Rockers Takes a More Focused Approach to their Craft with More Melody Oriented Songs and Better Arranging Than the First Out of the Box Smash. Its a Different Direction in Rock and Ctc Are Helping Lead the Way.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars TCTC's Second Album Soars... One of 2003's Best.......2003-11-07

The Cooper Temple Clause follow up last year's "See This Through and Leave" with "Kick Up The Fire" (10 tracks, 53 min.), with excellent results. For those not familiar with TCTC, think Hawkwind-meets-Radiohead-meets-Pink Floyd, but with more guitars.

"Kick Up the Fire" is making serious waves in the UK, with the singles "Promises Promises" and "Blind Pilots", both of which are pretty straight-forward power-rock tunes. But it's on the more adventurous tracks that TCTC really shines. Take the opener "The Same Mistakes", sounding ambient yet pulsating. Even better is "New Toys", which is what Radiohead should sound like if they had the guts. The album's "piece-de-resistance" is the closing track "Written Apology", an epic 10 min. blow-out of piano, guitar and electronic noodling, fantastic!

It's a crying shame that neither of The Cooper Temple Clause's album have been released in the US, but thankfully you can still purchase them on sites like... Amazon! Or you could happen to be on business in the UK, like I was. Either way, if you're a fan of "quality" alterna-rock, you will love this album.

5 out of 5 stars Love Again.......2003-10-19

Quieter. Louder. Faster. Slower. Softer. Harder. All over the place. Controlled.
The second coming of Cooper Temple Clause is all of these things and more. It represents a significant progression from the admittedly fantastic debut, being more coherent whilst retaining the exhilarating mood swings that made the band so special in the first place.
'The Same Mistakes' kicks things off. Mellow, ambient and quite dreamy. Though the refrain of " You can't jump ship just yet..." is underpined by anxious drumming. And then the track builds. And builds.
Songs start off quietly, explode in a frenzy of guitars or sequencers or both. And then go quiet again. It's almost like a very British take on the quiet bit/shouty bit genius of grunge that was obviously singularly American. This music is a million miles removed from grunge but that dynamic is there. It's there and then disrupted, messed with and just attacked like there's no tomorrow. Emotional in its intensity and beautiful in its tranquility. It's a schizophrenic album that seems to have read the script.
Next is 'Promises Promises' - guitar-led and angry. "Forget about me/And just desecrate everything...".
I don't think I'm wrong when I say that no-one else is currently doing this, anything like this. Sure, Cooper Temple Clause are a post-Radiohead band but that is just an indication of the power and innovation at work here. If pushed, I'd call this band an angrier, edgier Mansun, with apologies for lazy comparisons. And I would like to think that is a serious compliment.
I love the electronica bits throughout the album, the climax of 'A.I.M.' for example, but the best is saved to the end : 'Written Apology'. Ten minutes long, seeming to last half that time and moving from a gentle piano ballad to a pulsating, deafening techno whiteout. Which is awesome in its excitement and brutality. And seals the album.
Finally, then. This album takes its title from an early Philip Larkin poem ("Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose/To drive the shadows back...) and is an astounding work of poetry and poetic worth itself. "It's in the pain that won't leave you...It's being happy again...". And then you just want to play it again.
Please don't ever change...

4 out of 5 stars Depressing, maddening, frustrating, exhilarating.......2003-10-17

The biggest musical crime of the past two years is that this awesome British band cannot get an American release. Hopefully their 10/24/03 gig at the Irving Plaza in the Big Apple will open up that door.

Their follow up to the incredibly brilliant "See This Through and Leave" is a bizarre and eclectic sonic mish mash that threatens to blow out the speakers. Really, turn down the bass before putting this in the disc holder. This band defines genre so I will not attempt to classify them here.

The CD begins with the foreboding "The Same Mistakes" then into the single, the pounding "Promises, Promises". "Into My Arms" is a completely depressing mantra that recalls Pink Floyd before the drone is obliterated into a furious industrial apocalypse. In the meantime, topics such as death, suicide, death, loss, suicide, death . . you get the picture . . are covered.

Unlike the more radio friendly (?) "See This . . " the tunes are marked by a quirky uncatchability that will make you want to kick in your stereo. But that is part of CTCs brilliance: the music is borne of frustration. In "See This . . " CTC suckers you in with a slow, catchy ballad before . . WHAM! They blow out your eardrums with a lot of noise. On this CD this format is toned down a little . . . but enough to allow the listener to hear the songs melt into a brilliant mess.

If you can afford it, get these two CDs now and automatically become the coolest person on your block. Because next to the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Cooper Temple Clause may be the coolest band on the planet.

4 out of 5 stars

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