- Audio CD (3 Nov 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Desoto
- ASIN: B00005EBPN
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 254,327 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Hardcore luminary J.Robbins returns with Burning Airlines second album, Identikit, and it doesn't disappoint. Although this album varies slightly from the formula of their debut album 'Mission: control' It still brings the quality post hardcore rock we've come to expect from Robbins. 'Identikit' has a slightly more funky edge to it's songs than its predecessor (mainly due to their new bass player) that is slightly reminiscent of another fantastic band, The Dismemberment Plan. Standout tracks include 'the deluxe war baby' and the acoustic closer 'dear hilary'. Fans of bands such as Quicksand, Texas is the Reason, and Jawbox (Robbins'previous outfit), or anyone into intelligent, well written guitar music should check this album out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
J Robbins is, quite simply, a brilliant song writer. After forming and ending the much-missed and highly influential Jawbox, he came back with this little beauty of a band. This, their second album, stands above the debut in manner of diversity and of basic progression. From the first song, it's obvious that this is going to be good.
There is a very unexpected and colourful flair to Burning Airlines that wasn't there in Jaxbox, and certainly not in most of the Dischord releases, except perhaps late Fugazi and Bluetip. Jawbox were brilliant, but this lot are something else. The actual title track is very strange, with it's hypnotic and almost waltzing dance-hall echo verse, and it's sludgy, almost comical choruses, it stands out like no other track on the CD. Basically all the songs stand out as being totally original, but at the same time confusingly familiar. Maybe it's Robbin's voice, maybe it's the underling alternative-yet-casual style which they're executed under.
Whatever. This is a damn good release. Get this and get Mission Control! too.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Cool.
1 July 2003
Format:Audio CD
BURNING AIRLINES rocks. Their second effort IDENTIKIT, is a cool mix of punk, pop, and rock that is both inventive and crisply original. Great harmonies mesh sweetly with cruchy guitar, distorted bass, and metronomicly askew drums to create short, punchy songs that are both complex and easy on the ears. This is one band who knows how to rock with authority and both CDs in their arsenal are highly recommended. Way better than anything mainstream, this is one act who have a true identity and they have wrapped it up for you in a nice little kit.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
EXCELLENT!
9 July 2002
Format:Audio CD
Remarkable vocal and guitar melodies --- jarring and catchy at once. Like a heavy, gritty version of XTC.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
demanding listeners demand BURNING AIRLINES!
25 Sep 2001
Format:Audio CD
I can't say enough good things about this band or their body of work (2 CD's and counting happily!) Plus, after having seen them live last night in a way-small venue in Fort Collins CO (a show they played on their "day off" from their touring schedule as they described it), I can verify that they ROCK in person too!
Their music has everything to satisfy the most demanding listener. So buy their CD's and do your part to support these guys (and maybe they'll be able to afford a better "science project" style fold-out CD-and-Tee-shirt-tabletop-display-thingy!) Also visit their label's website www.desotorecords.com
Their music has everything to satisfy the most demanding listener. So buy their CD's and do your part to support these guys (and maybe they'll be able to afford a better "science project" style fold-out CD-and-Tee-shirt-tabletop-display-thingy!) Also visit their label's website www.desotorecords.com
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