- Audio CD (11 Feb 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Cooking Vinyl
- ASIN: B00005MJE0
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 234,768 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Intro |
| 2. Hold |
| 3. A Bell (Of Love Rings Out For You) |
| 4. Clone Of Al Capone |
| 5. 16 4 2010 |
| 6. Bright Anchor (Anchor Me) |
| 7. Interlude |
| 8. Suck On Science |
| 9. Conspicuously Leaving (Without Saying Goodbye) |
| 10. Victoria |
| 11. Poem |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Perennial underachievers they may be, but that's no reason to underestimate O, the third full-length album by wayward guitar pop experimentalists--A C Acoustics. Their last album Understanding Music, was rightly hailed as an offbeat gem, but despite a barrage of critical acclaim, it failed to set the indie record-buying public alight. So over a decade after their inception, they have the dubious honour of stalling in the category marked "critics' band". Nevertheless, O is a triumph and shows no signs of a band defeated. While not as mind-poppingly eclectic and widescreen as their previous efforts, the songs are still propelled by an epic and windswept thrust and Paul Campion's voice, which always sounds heroically wracked with yearning and the failure of disappointment. On the elegiac, string-laden "Clone of Al Capone", Campion's recurrent themes of opportunities wasted and loves lost are sung in a voice soaked in emotional resonance. Aside from the shuffling beats of an interlude and a brief, spoken-word poem which closes the album, any sonic, experimental trickery is largely absent, yet the album still sounds otherworldly. "Victoria", an eerie paean to a departing lover evokes Leonard Cohen singing over Mercury Rev and is quite beautifully strange. --Suzannah Brown
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Completes hat-trick of great albums,
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This review is from: O (Audio CD)
Following on from 1997's heavy 'Victory Parts' and 2000's panoramic masterpiece 'Understanding Music', 'O' sees the band pulling back the reigns and honing their epic-guitar sound to near perfection. Highlights include 'A Bell (Of Love Rings Out For You)' and 'Clone Of Al Capone'.The album was recorded in just ten days. Paul Campion's abstract/ stream of conciousness lyrics draw you in closer and lend the album a mystical edge, more than making up for the (lack of) production. The overall sentiments are clear . "Will you carry me, I bruise easily" he pleads on 'Bright Anchor', before reasoning on 'Conspicuously Leaving' that "I only ever dared to dream, tried to be good inside, I tried to be kind, tried to get it right". This is the sound of a man wracked by the guilt and disappointment of fractured relationships. Things come to a head near the end on the beautifully haunting 'Victoria', with Campion yearning for a lost love over minimal backing from the band. Thankfully sanity is restored by the closing short spoken word poem, and the journey is nearly complete. As usual though with A.C. Acoustics, it's a journey with more twists and turns than first expected but ultimately well worth taking.
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