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- Original Release Date: 22 May 2006
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. There Is No End | 7:49 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. Spring | 5:20 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Dormant Love | 4:54 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Black Bed Blues | 17:37 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 5. Two Birds | 12:40 | Album Only | ||
| Play | 6. Hope Against Hope | 5:13 | £0.89 |
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There's a strange beauty about the Charalambides, its taken me about ten listens before I've realised that they are just two guitars and a beautiful voice, no bass, no drums yet a warm, full sound, sometimes its sparse like at the start of Hope Against Hope, the fragile guitar line carefully mimicking the words of Christina Carter. Like most duos there has a been a romantic connection, Tom & Christina are by all accounts ex husband and wife.
Songs stretch and sprawl to upwards of fifteen minutes yet never outstay their welcome, they build but unlike say Godspeed, never to a climax of brutal white noise that has so regularly been used as the trump card for bands who like to stretch out their songs. Instead they build in beauty, the icy vocals stand apart like perfectly formed icebergs, the guitar lines are glacial and carefully picked, guiding their way like the Titanic through treacherous waters only to eventually end up crashing, yet far from disaster the collision causes something beautiful, the way a tragedy can sometimes reveal the true inner person, an opportunity to say what you've been holding in, to tell the one you love just how much they mean to you.
Imagine if Espers stripped right down and understood the beauty of slowness, the importance of the silence between the notes and the joys of spring.
Songs stretch and sprawl to upwards of fifteen minutes yet never outstay their welcome, they build but unlike say Godspeed, never to a climax of brutal white noise that has so regularly been used as the trump card for bands who like to stretch out their songs. Instead they build in beauty, the icy vocals stand apart like perfectly formed icebergs, the guitar lines are glacial and carefully picked, guiding their way like the Titanic through treacherous waters only to eventually end up crashing, yet far from disaster the collision causes something beautiful, the way a tragedy can sometimes reveal the true inner person, an opportunity to say what you've been holding in, to tell the one you love just how much they mean to you.
Imagine if Espers stripped right down and understood the beauty of slowness, the importance of the silence between the notes and the joys of spring.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
i first encountered the band on last fm.the track i heard was good so ipurchased the album.the music on it is just long drawn out sprawls of empty gaps no atmosphere,more like acouple of musicians rehearsing and practising chords.think folk music but holes punched throughout each track.if you like your music down to basics,two guitars twanged here and there with a female singer as an afterthought who knows,it could be for you.its great for sending you to sleep.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Beautiful..
1 Oct 2007
Format:Audio CD
i cannot believe noone has reviewed this amazing album before me..
Its a 2006 release. Charalambides continue their ethereal trip to heaven..
Beautiful folk melodies with experimental orchestrations that touch ambient and psychedelic sounds at some points..
Highlight of the album is the unbelievable 13 minute masterpiece 2 birds..
Its a 2006 release. Charalambides continue their ethereal trip to heaven..
Beautiful folk melodies with experimental orchestrations that touch ambient and psychedelic sounds at some points..
Highlight of the album is the unbelievable 13 minute masterpiece 2 birds..
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