- Audio CD (21 July 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Altered States
- ASIN: B0000A1WJU
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 128,419 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Asleep At The Wheel |
| 2. Come on Home |
| 3. 100% proof |
| 4. You’ll Be The End |
| 5. Count Them On One Hand |
| 6. St John |
| 7. Shadows |
| 8. She Makes Me Smile |
| 9. Promises |
| 10. Road Trip |
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Undiscovered gem seeking better promotion,
This review is from: Black Car (Audio CD)
Black Car is basically former Blinder and Headswim frontman Dan Glendinning pulling all the strings, with brother Tom providing drums. Headswim made the Top 40 with the single 'Tourniquet' and the album 'Despite Yourself', which was well-received by the critics and radio alike but failed to propel the band up the charts or give them the recognition Dan's song-writing talent deserved. As a point of interest 'Black car' was also the title of a Headswim song which featured on the 'Tourniquet' CD single release and seemed to showcase a more Radiohead-style of song that Dan does exceptionally well and seems to have continued down this road with BlackCar. For me this collection of songs sound more personal than Headswim, which I suppose you'd expect with this basically being a solo project. Acoustically uplifting and hopeful, this album is a real grower. Five stars to the following, - 'Asleep at the wheel' 'Come On Home' 'Shadows' 'You'll Be The End' 'She Makes Me Smile' '100% proof'. Dan really deserves to gain greater recognition for this project and you can't help but think 'what if' . All he needs is for one song to feature in a TV commercial or a film soundtrack and the queues would be forming to snap up the album and see the live set. It happened to Aqualung and Jet...so why not Blackcar?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A bit like early Radiohead... But different.,
This review is from: Black Car (Audio CD)
This album is not ground breaking, it does not contain a "new sound" that you can listen to and then suprise your mates with your discovery. But don't be put off, if you like the genre inspired by early Radiohead and continued by Coldplay, you'll love this. If you enjoy the strange enchanting melodies of Turin Breaks then you'll find a little of that here too. Just because this album doesn't invent a new niche for itself doesn't mean that it's not good. It is, very good indeed.The opening track is everything you could ask a song of this kind to be, initially quiet, emphasising the lyrics and a sense of melancholy. Then just when you're beginning to wonder what's going to happen next, it explodes into a soaring distorted guitar chorus, pricking the hairs on your arms and enthralling you. Only to fade away again to a haunting vocal. This is one of the best tracks I have ever heard, it's only a shame that so few other people seem to have heard it too. The rest of the album is excellent, dipping between quiet and contemplative to brash and disrupting. The only let down this album offers is that the first track you hear is the best, and you're left listening to the rest of the album hoping for another track as good. This does the album something of an injustice. Not that I could do any better.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic album. Simply fantastic.,
By Sodesune (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black Car (Audio CD)
Every now and then you get one of "those" CDs. The ones that lodge themselves in your CD player and refuse to come out. It's mellow yet intense, beautiful yet arresting. The bends-era radiohead comparisons aren't entirely off-base, but this is an extremely original album that doesn't really "sound like" anyone. It's practically criminal that this received such a limited release and such poor promotion, but what can you do. Well, except buy it and play it for everyone you know. :)
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