Luxury or Whether It Is Better To Be Loved Than Feared

Luxury or Whether It Is Better To Be Loved Than Feared Artist: Captian Audio
Label: The Orchard
Category: Music


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


UPC: 803680128824
EAN: 0803680128824
ASIN: B00005NNK4


Release Date: 2001-08-14

Luxury or Whether It Is Better To Be Loved Than Feared


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Tracks:

  1. Lemon
  2. Los Pedasos
  3. Velvet
  4. Piano Robotico III
  5. Presentame A Tu Novio
  6. Piano Robotico I
  7. Take It Like A Pill
  8. Because Of You
  9. All In The Everything
  10. Star
  11. Piano Robotico II
  12. Goodbye Suite

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars "Luxury or Whether It Is Better To Be Loved Than Feared".......2001-08-31

The catchy title may be lengthy, but the album, in three words: Don't overlook it!

"Lemon" and "Los Pedasos", the first two songs, are satisfyingly messy pop gems.

These two songs are a real joy. And, played in sequence, they continuously segue beautifully. Experiencing them for the first time kicked in all my love-of-first-discovery thrills.

Despite my love of the hook in "Lemon" ("Inside your head, behind your eyes"), I most respond to the production: the spots of thick, layered sound, the huge unpolished vocals that put teen-pooper stuff to shame.

"Lemon" has a beautiful gimmick to it: it adds musical elements (starting with street noises and a brief reverb-y guitar like a stray dog sniffing along the sidewalk) a bit at atime, breathtaking broad vocal harmonies rising atop a big, nearly-anthemic wave, cresting to a climax you only realize has been reached when elements start dropping away. I could swear a "gimmick" this good has to have been done before, but I can't recall anything exactly like it. (Only Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and The Intro and The Outro come close, but neither gets quiet like Captain Audio's. I imagine I once heard some orchestral European Classical piece with a similar method, or perhaps I'm just thinking of songs like the Iseley Bros' Shout!)

"Los Pedasos" reminds me of foreign language songs that used to chart Top 40 in the 1960s and '70s. I rarely cared to know what all the lyrics meant, because they were so fun and the hooks so good. This upholds the tradition (which fell apart when the hooks became all about the novelty factor, and not the song: a trap this song avoids). In addition, "Los Pedasos" contains the strangest - yet - most - wonderful tempo-slowing guitar breakdown I've ever heard.

To me, those first two songs are the highlight of the album.

The CD comes in an all-cardboard sleeve -- and yet, it's a gatefold! Like 12" albums of old! I'm impressed by the rare environmental sanity of that sleeve.

I leave the rest of it to you to discover.

RIYL: The Cranberries, The Breeders, Beatles, Brian Eno, R. L. Burnside

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