- Vinyl (9 Oct 2006)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Hefty
- ASIN: B00005RTBU
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 815,435 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I listened to Telefon Tel Aviv's debut album after seeing their name mentioned on the internet with favourable comparisons made to Warp Records acts such as Boards Of Canada and Autechre. Telefon Tel Aviv are American duo Charles Cooper and John Eustice signed to Hefty Records. This album quite frankly left me in awe.The title track chugs along like Radiohead's "Everything in It's Right Place" remade by LTJ Bukem. "TTV" sounds like a loungecore addition to Aphex Twin's Richard D. James album. "John Thomas On The Inside Is Nothing But Foam" is what Boards Of Canada could achieve with a degree of intimacy added to their pristine soundscapes, whilst "Whats The Use of Feet If You Haven't Got Legs" sounds like a perfect synthesis of Autechre's "Confield" album and Squarepushers "Go Plastic". Quite simply there isn't a bad track on this album and it's already joined the likes of "Go Plastic",Massive Attack's "Blue Lines", David Holmes' "Lets Get Killed", and bent's "Programmed to Love" in the pile of my favourite dance C.D's.An excellent album.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Vinyl
Imagine a nice, laid back beat, with some soothing ambient guitar or piano blended in - a bit like something from a Windham Hill. But then at the same time imagine the droid R2D2 on amphetamines, manically whispering in your ears: 'Bleep-twong-rrr-chirip-bbb-dwoop...'. That's about the effect you get on each track of Telefon Tel Aviv's debut album. But don't let the random electronic twiddles put you off: they project a rich and mesmerising texture breezing across the calm, contemplative underlayer. Personally, I love the juxtaposition, though it won't be to everyone's taste and some tracks do work better than others. The stand-out track for me is TTV, which I first heard on Soma FM. All in all, Farenheit Fair Enough like giving your eardrums a relaxing-yet-invigorating digital massage.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Flow and Meander
3 Feb 2004
Format:Audio CD
I noticed the previous reviews for this album were short and didn't tell enough. So I shall elaborate. This album is flavored towards IDM. Intelligent Dance Music. The sound is a mix of blibs and smooth atmosphere melded together by welders who are masters of their trade. This is an album that needs to heard as a whole. The sound flows and builds on itself through out the whole album, as if one is traveling a round trip. I've found I can put this album on repeat while working and not get tired or hearing the cd play over. This album is not background noise however, it is very well engineered beats that define a new step in electronic music. For a while I was afraid electronic might stagnate, but this album holds a promise for its continuence due to its evolutionary new concepts. Give this album your ear. You won't be disapointed.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Shiny
22 Feb 2004
Format:Audio CD
With their first record, 2002's Farhenheit Fair Enough, Joshua Eustas and Charles Cooper created a loyal fan base through touring and implementing the most useful instrument to any artist; word of mouth. Telefon Tel Aviv's elegant complexities of brash electronics combined with the duo's guitar and piano ambience came at a perfect time when down tempo was becoming predictable and the popular IDM sounds from the West Coast were slowly fading. Farhenheit's orchestrations allowed the listener to assign their own emotions, making it the foreplay to their second full-length album.
With their second album, Map of What is Effortless, Eustas and Cooper mark their return with a palate that is significantly stronger and more assertive via forceful guitar chords and the addition of voice. If Fahrenheit Fair Enough was their foreplay, than Map of What is Effortless is clearly TTA's attempt to finish what they started. The vocals of Damon Aaron and Lindsay Anderson leave no question that TTA is ready to present a more visible and wider range of emotional highs and lows alongside their instrumental speak. The gentile creativity of Farhenheit still looms, however the duo explores more raw, frontal sounds as with, "What it is Without the Hand that Wields It", a track that is closer to the likes of Aphex Twin than the TTA previously known. The layers of heart wrenching simplistic guitar strokes, computerized crunches and dramatic vocals of 'What it was will never again' perfectly summarizes this album's overall strengths in an audio and characteristic context.
The obvious audience favorite will be Effortless' first single, 'My Week Beats Your Year.' It's clap ridden rhythm back dropped into Anderson's popishly seductive vocals are enough to move hips and turn the heads of the music elite all in one spin. However, the dance fever of the single should not cloud what Eustas and Cooper are doing on the rest of this album. Sequentially laid out, the songs all lead to an emotional destination that is left for the listener to point towards. There is an obvious map of human emotion being drawn here; one that is much more dramatic, blatant accessible than that of Fahrenheit's. As with any achieved successor, Effortless takes the duo in a new and challenging path of keeping the auditory satisfaction interesting. If Effortless is the temperate foreplay's follow through, than Telefon Tel Aviv's love affair with us has just begun.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Whirling wrenches
13 Aug 2009
Format:Audio CD
Great glitch-tronica debut from the (late) Louisiana duo is a bit short of a masterpiece, but is still a very classy affair of layered, buzzing beats, underlying memorable melodics, and impeccable production reminiscent of an M83 by way of Squarepusher.
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