The Blacklight Trap

The Blacklight Trap Artist: Milton Mapes
Label: Undertow Music
Category: Music


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


UPC: 722560102825
EAN: 0722560102825
ASIN: B0007NMKA8


Release Date: 2005-03-08

The Blacklight Trap


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Categories | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
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Tracks:

  1. In The Corner Where It All Began
  2. Thunderbird
  3. The Blacklight Trap
  4. Bowie AZ
  5. Waiting For Love To Fail
  6. Tornado Weather
  7. Underneath The River Runs
  8. When The Earth's Last Picture is Painted
  9. Craters Of The Moon

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  1. Westernaire
  2. The State Line
  3. If You Didn't Laugh You'd Cry
  4. Everything All the Time
  5. Let Me Come Home

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Undeservedly Obscure.......2006-05-24

With the exception of Tornado Weather, which seems to drone on for far longer than 4:32, The Blacklight Trap is another excellent album by Milton Mapes, a band that deserves a bigger audience and a much higher national profile. As on Westernaire, I like the ballads best here, especially Bowie AZ and Craters of the Moon, a simply beautiful love song. Nothing on the CD rocks, but even as the songs are slow, the band can get a little noisy and that is welcome on the first two cuts and the Rudyard Kipling reference, When the Earth's Last Picture is Painted. In the interest of full disclosure, while it doesn't bother me, band leader Greg Vanderpool has a nasal vocal style that may grate on some ears.

If you like alt-country, Texas music, but haven't heard of Milton Mapes, they are definitely worth an impulse purchase.

4 out of 5 stars

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  5. The Ultimate Tribute to U2 ~ Various Artists
  6. Mr. A-Z ~ Jason Mraz
  7. Out-Side ~ The Beta Band
  8. Cocktail Angst ~ Cocktail Angst
  9. Mael Intuition: The Best of Sparks 1974-1976 ~ Sparks
  10. The Rock 'N' Roll Era: Greatest Hits ~ Various Artists

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