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Bromst [CD]

Dan Deacon Audio CD
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The art made by Baltimore artist Dan Deacon is about community and how to organize and inspire it. From founding a now well-known art collective (Wham City), to organizing and running an annually sold-out DIY music festival (Whartscape), to conceiving, planning and curating a massive 60 person/30 band tour (Baltimore Round Robin Tour), it’s clear to see that community and bringing people ... Read more in Amazon's Dan Deacon Store

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  • Audio CD (23 Mar 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Carpark
  • ASIN: B001QIRSJG
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 116,553 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Even The Frogs Are Dancing ! 4 Feb 2010
By The Wolf TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Electronic musician/composer Dan Deacon is a
happy soul. I say this without any real certainty
as I have never met him. His album 'Bromst', however,
provides strong evidence to confirm this hypothesis.

This is the cheerful face of electronica.
Big, bold, bubbling compositions, brimming
over with energy and bursting at the seams
with scintillating musical ideas.

It's a bit like a beam of white light hitting
the heart of a diamond and bouncing out in a
thousand directions simultaneously.

Mr Deacon is in touch with his inner-hippie
and that is no bad thing when it generates
music as curiously enthralling as this.

There's something strangely wonderful going on
in the forest clearing on 'Paddling Ghost'.
Listen carefully and you will hear a family of
chipmunks singing and dancing along deep in the mix.

Many of the compositions have an anthemic quality.
Multi-tracked vocal incantations layered over
buzzing and warbling synths and blistering percussion.

The ecstatic near-madness of 'Snookered' is like a runaway
express train which is in danger of flying off the rails.

The fairy bells and military drumming at the beginning
of 'Of The Mountains' evolves slowly together with the
ambiguous, near-tribal, chanting into one of the project's
most satisfying compositions. A hypnotic riot!

'Woof Woof' is a big, barmy bundle of fun.
All manner of woodland creatures and ethereal
beings would appear to have united in song
with a common purpose. To make us smile!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Album of the year so far? 18 Aug 2009
Format:Audio CD
Want to restore your faith in dance/electronica? Start here. Sounds like Brian Eno doing happy hardcore,which turns out to be a good thing.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars whoa 7 July 2009
By D - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
I think I've found the soundtrack to my summer. I hardly listen to any music that ventures this far into electronica, but I might if more of it were this well composed. It's not a perfectly consistent album though - "Surprise Stefani" and "Get Older" don't do much for me, and "Baltihorse" would be much better with a big anthemic group vocal, or even as a purely instrumental song...anything but those "chipmunk" vocals!

But at its best (Build Voice, Wet Wings, Woof Woof, Slow with Horns), it's nearly as brilliant as any of the music I love. In fact, in its finest moments, I'm reminded of one of my favorite bands, Sigur Ros. Not in style, obviously, but in the grandeur and complexity of the music.

Maybe not quite a classic, but still a really, really great album to listen to in the car on a bright summer day.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant baltimore browbeating beats and noises 28 Jan 2010
By xopher - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
An album which has a way of making you want more- even with the somewhat intense, long lasting layers upon layers of busyness, that paints a J. Pollock on almost every track. You may find it hard to listen to all of the way through, but once you do, it changes from busy to beautiful. I associate some parts of Deacon's album with a reminiscence of kraut styled lengthiness and repetitive beats/noises. Keeping that in mind, Bromst is way more advanced; though the elements are indeed sometimes there. The album is altogether something that sounds--- new!! ...very interesting. very unique. and all without losing replay value. Terrific album by Dan Deacon.

Listen to a sample before purchasing. It can be a bit much for someone who is only slightly into borderline obscure organized chaos. ...and oh yeah, I've heard the live shows are interactive and extraordinarily fun. bonus!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars At Times, Mind-Blowing Stuff 13 Jan 2011
By Gregory William Locke - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
There's a scene in director Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 sci-fi thriller, Children of Men, where music plays a key role in the film's secondary agenda - forecasting the future. Foul blasts of broken robot noise spill from the screen as actor Michael Caine dances a jig we've never seen. It's a noble effort by Cuaron, Caine and whoever programmed up the awful sounds, but let's leave the musical predictions to the musicians. Dan Deacon's second album to see major distribution, Bromst, whether it means to or not, does a better job at predicting the future of pop music.

Beginning with a hushed ambiance that slowly builds into what functions as an introduction, Bromst gives the listener a final moment of peace before the aptly-titled opener, "Build Voice," really revs up. An arrangement of vocal loops, piano, digital beats, horns and rolling keyboards create a song that feels more like a rethinking of classical composition than it does electro-pop. No real strings being stroked with bows; plenty of programming and loops. The song, like most of Deacon's material, would fit well if played between cuts from LCD Soundsystem and the Animal Collective - good company. The general vibe here is electronic pop, though maybe the most anything-goes version of said genre you'll find in the U.S. It's a somewhat brutal sound, just as the music in Children of Men was.

While 2007's Spiderman of the Rings, Deacon's first major release, was maybe a tad too silly to be taken as the grand artistic statement it was so often written up to be, Bromst settles back a bit, expanding on Spiderman's style while tightening the screws. Each song, including the record's shortest composition - the three-minute "Wet Wings" - here feels epic, almost exhausting. By the time track three, "Paddling Ghost," ends you might need a break - it feels almost as if Deacon has thrown the whole world at you. The whole world, backed by somewhat organic drum programming, electro-fuzz, loads of vocal effects, endless keyboards and solid production. It's the kind of solid, hard-labored work that even a late-70s Brian Eno would be impressed by. It's the kind of work only a pop culture junkie with extensive college-level composition studies under his/her credit could accomplish.

The only real question remaining is whether or not Deacon ever intends to make music that can be taken seriously by the heard-it-all set. (Is he maybe just a step or two too far ahead of his time, or will his snazzy style always feel a little too youthful, playful and, well, forward looking?) Should he buckle down even more, or would doing so take away the magic? Songs like "Snookered" and "On the Mountains" suggest that Deacon is capable of making the kind of forward thinking proto-prog Radiohead has made ... but do we really need another Radiohead? Does "serious music," even when of the futuristic breed, need to be self serious and joyless in order to be effective? Something tells me Deacon will answer these questions in no time at all.

Until then, we have Bromst, one of the very few recent records this writer would consider filing under "genius." It's an extreme collection of sound that wont fit your every mood, surely, but one that will stand the test of time due to its sweeping imagination. Deacon is not so much predicting the future as he is influencing it - a rare feat indeed.
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