Label: tmg records
Category: Music
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Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 784298001221
EAN: 0784298001221
ASIN: B0000CEJFT
Release Date: 2003-08-01
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Artist: Transcendence
Label: tmg records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Explicit Lyrics Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 784298001221 EAN: 0784298001221 ASIN: B0000CEJFT Release Date: 2003-08-01 |
Sleep with You
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Album Description
The long awaited new release from Transcendence. Ed Hale and the boys deliver 13 new tracks (plus bonus material) on this follow up to last year's worldly Rise and Shine. Sleep with you is darker (Junkie, Vicodin) and rocks harder (I'm not the only one, Sleep with you) than its predecessor. Its mood is at once passionate and romantic (Beautiful one, Veronica) and cheeky (Minnie Driver, Girls) and fun (Super hero girl). Gone are the multi-cultural world-music leanings as the band delivers over the top alt-rock and brit-pop ear candy dressed up in beautiful melodies and soaring guitar. This is the heaviest the band has ever sounded, and the most authentic as a "rock band" as evidenced by the pounding bass and drums on almost every track that warrants such. Not that Sleep with you is all rock. As much as it rocks, its not. Guilty is as radio friendly pop as you can find, and Keep moving on could be an alternate track from U2's All that you cant leave behind. The album closes with the delicate and gorgeous fire-side ballad Little tree, and then explodes into a thunderous one chord anthem complete with Zeppelinesqe strings and some seriously head-spinning guitar before trailing off into dreamy samples and feedback.Customer Reviews:
Wow.......2007-01-02
This CD rox!.......2003-12-09
New Transcendence Album.......2003-12-05
Ok I'm done with my rant, and in response to the above rant, I'm going
to write a specific review about the new Transcendence album and how it
makes me feel. Hopefully giving people interested a real idea of what
to expect.
Instead of getting too heady about the new album, I have put sleep with
you in my ear drum damaging walkman so as to get as emotionally
connected to it as possible as I write this review.
Ok volume is turned up all the way and my ears are in pain, here we go:
>From the opening track you can tell this is a whole new Transcendence.
It's like the whole band is on the edge, and at any time could lose it.
The guitar sound is so much heavier this time around, but still retains
much of the melodic sound Transcendence is known for. The crazy amount
of creativity in the guitar work alone should keep most listeners happy
for a LONG time. If you are sick of the typical guitar sound that is so
trendy right now, Transcendence will blow your mind; and your ears if
you listen to it as loud as I am right now. I firmly believe this album
really needs to be listened to as loudly as possible to really get the
full rush I've come to expect from the new album. Drum and bass
intensity have also been turned up drastically making the album
absolutely roar! Now for vocals, God damn, I want to know what the hell
happened to Ed Hale between RAS and SWU?! What ever it is, I'm not going
to complain. He is singing from a whole new place on SWU, and volume for
that matter.
He now shifts from guttural emotional screams to falsetto that leaves
you nodding your head with a satisfied grin on your face. You can
honestly feel that he is serving up his heart and soul for you to sink
your teeth into; the vocals are that raw and vulnerable at times. Ed's
vocals are so real, not some formulated processed sound. Absolutely
nothing is held back on this album-he is so raw and vulnerable. And the
Transcendence boys played like this could have been their last album
ever. Even the slow songs have an underlying tension and intensity that
is the trademark of SWU. The whole album is much more focused this time,
and you can really hear and feel the chemistry of everyone coming
together. If this size leap from RAS to SWU is what we should expect, I
can't wait or imagine how the next album will sound.
Transcendence has a particular tone that is unmistakable---Ed's vocals,
the guitar sounds, the intricate bass lines, and the unique keyboard
lines. I feel this new album will get some serious airplay even though
it doesn't follow the boring formula that infects our airwaves on a
daily basis.
To anybody reading this, sorry for the lack of continuity throughout the
review it's damn hard to write as you have your ears blasted.
This is really good..........2003-11-17
Music Album:
Music CD
Second Sight ~ Marc Johnson's Bass Desires
All Night Long ~ Billy Mitchell
Heretic (Original Soundtrack) ~ Various, John Zorn
Invisible Story ~ Tibor Szemz%C3%B3
Scott Hamilton With Strings ~ Scott Hamilton
Air Mail Music: South American Flutes ~ Various Artists