- Audio CD (22 Feb 2010)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: CD
- Label: Domino Records
- ASIN: B002Z8I27I
- Other Editions: Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 89,509 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Dead Head Blues |
| 2. Marlene |
| 3. There's Nothing Underwater |
| 4. Intermission |
| 5. Faculty Of Fears |
| 6. Big Guns Of Highsmith, The |
| 7. Romart |
| 8. I Don't Want To Wake Up Alone |
| 9. Madame Van Damme |
| 10. Smooth Day (At The Library) |
| 11. Intermission 2 |
| 12. Sweetheart |
| 13. Etude Op.3 Goodnight Michalek |
| 14. Middle Of The Dark |
| 15. Bridge And A Goodbye, A |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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It is always pleasing when an artist releases a superior sophomore album but particularly now after so many recent disappointments (take your pick from the Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Clap Your Hands, Broken Social Scene, Wolf Parade...I could go on). This is just such a step up after `Lavender Bridge', it sounds fuller, the consistency is higher, there is more variety, the vocals and lyrics are much improved - and equally importantly the playfulness and knowing humour that defined the debut still remain.
Definitely one of those albums where your particular favourite song will keep shifting although I think the biggest shouts should go out to the endearing spaghetti Western pastiche `Sweetheart', Morrissey indebted `Faculty of Fears', grandiosely tongue-in-cheek `The Big Guns of Highsmith', epic guitar solo sporting opener `Dead Head Blues', and the energetic pop pairing of `Marlene' and `Madame Van Damme'. A personal guilty pleasure is the cutesy `Romart' that sounds like it belongs in a sentimental Japanese Ghibli-style animation - I'm still not quite sure why I like this track so much?! Answers on a postcard to the usual address please.
I expect the best is still yet to come so for now Dev Hynes remains at the top of the pile labelled `ones to watch'.
Definitely one of those albums where your particular favourite song will keep shifting although I think the biggest shouts should go out to the endearing spaghetti Western pastiche `Sweetheart', Morrissey indebted `Faculty of Fears', grandiosely tongue-in-cheek `The Big Guns of Highsmith', epic guitar solo sporting opener `Dead Head Blues', and the energetic pop pairing of `Marlene' and `Madame Van Damme'. A personal guilty pleasure is the cutesy `Romart' that sounds like it belongs in a sentimental Japanese Ghibli-style animation - I'm still not quite sure why I like this track so much?! Answers on a postcard to the usual address please.
I expect the best is still yet to come so for now Dev Hynes remains at the top of the pile labelled `ones to watch'.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Dev Hynes, aka Lightspeed Champion doesn't play it straight, anything but. There is so much variety on "Life Is Sweet Nice to Meet You" that it should be staged in front of the Queen at the London Palladium and introduced by Bruce Forsyth. His previous album Falling Off The Lavender Bridge had a country feel about it albeit with a twist with songs like Midnight Suprise sounding like Conor Oberst mixed by Blur. His new album alternatively draws from every part of the tool kit and includes soul, musical theatre, pop/rock, Chopin and is jam packed with new thinking an innovation. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised at this since the album is produced by one Ben Allen, who manufactured the alchemy on everyone's favourite 2009 ditty " Merriweather Post Pavilion" by the Animal Collective.
It really is a struggle to describe this album. The brilliant opener "Dead Head Blues" is a heartfelt pop ballad with excellent lyrics (humour plays a key part in throughout) with a slighty 50's feel but a guitar solo that kicks like a mule. Recommendation on this is to sing it at the top of your voice and damn the neighbours. Check out in addition the hugely infectious "Big Guns of Highsmith" this is not conventional rock music and could soundtrack a theatre production and the chorus of "Hurts to be the one who's always feeling sad / Oh just stop complaining, Oh just stop complaining." drills inside your head to such depth that surgery would be needed to extract it. "There's Nothing Underwater" sounds like Sufjan Stevens has been giving tutorials while "Madame Van Damme" is a fun, vibrant, jam where he exhorts his girlfriend, mother or whoever to "kill me baby, wont you kill me" and his most recent single is pop breeze of "Marlene" . Another great highlight here is "I Dont want to wake up alone" a ballad with an almost Ronettes like feel to it but with Hynes sounding like Terry Hall from the Specials.
Is it all a bit too clever? The answer is possibly, indeed Hynes may have some similarities to the great Lewis Taylor who made some of the most amazing music of any British artist yet never struck a popular chord or resonance. There are also moments on here which are to easy to admire but lack genuine excitement. I am not certain about some of the frankly silly instrumentals on here and a couple of songs are wide of the mark. Finally before somebody helpfully point out that Devonté Hynes was born in Texas he clearly considers himself a British composer having been brought up in England which is great since on the evidence "Life Is Sweet Nice to Meet You" he is a considerable asset to dear old blighty and a talent of significant promise.
It really is a struggle to describe this album. The brilliant opener "Dead Head Blues" is a heartfelt pop ballad with excellent lyrics (humour plays a key part in throughout) with a slighty 50's feel but a guitar solo that kicks like a mule. Recommendation on this is to sing it at the top of your voice and damn the neighbours. Check out in addition the hugely infectious "Big Guns of Highsmith" this is not conventional rock music and could soundtrack a theatre production and the chorus of "Hurts to be the one who's always feeling sad / Oh just stop complaining, Oh just stop complaining." drills inside your head to such depth that surgery would be needed to extract it. "There's Nothing Underwater" sounds like Sufjan Stevens has been giving tutorials while "Madame Van Damme" is a fun, vibrant, jam where he exhorts his girlfriend, mother or whoever to "kill me baby, wont you kill me" and his most recent single is pop breeze of "Marlene" . Another great highlight here is "I Dont want to wake up alone" a ballad with an almost Ronettes like feel to it but with Hynes sounding like Terry Hall from the Specials.
Is it all a bit too clever? The answer is possibly, indeed Hynes may have some similarities to the great Lewis Taylor who made some of the most amazing music of any British artist yet never struck a popular chord or resonance. There are also moments on here which are to easy to admire but lack genuine excitement. I am not certain about some of the frankly silly instrumentals on here and a couple of songs are wide of the mark. Finally before somebody helpfully point out that Devonté Hynes was born in Texas he clearly considers himself a British composer having been brought up in England which is great since on the evidence "Life Is Sweet Nice to Meet You" he is a considerable asset to dear old blighty and a talent of significant promise.
Format:Audio CD
Lightspeed champion's debut album "falling off the lavender bridge" in my eyes was a triumph, a completely solid album from start to finnish, a huge contrast in musical style from his prior band "testicicles" it was a really nice surprise hearing such a solid change in direction
i however was bitterly dissapointed by his second album as the high hopes i had were dashes and spat in the face upon first listen, especially as the album stats out so good, the first track 'dead head blues' is a really good track although his rather toe curling misses of high notes at the end of the songs are dragged down towards the end of the song it still seeps well into what i feel is the best song on the album 'Marlene'. i've found myself only listening to these two songs then changing the disc in my CD player as the rest of the album is a journey of some of the grating songs i've put myself through. from the annoying repetitious chorus of the second single form the album "Madame Van Damme" to songs worthy of school musicals such as "romart".
another disappointingly annoying part of the album is the backing vocals, contrasting from the beautiful backing vocals from "emmy the great" in his debut, you've now got what sounds like the local rugby club chanting away throughout the "big guns of Highsmith" and "middle of the dark".
this is only a matter of my own opinion but i recommend listening to it through on spotify if you can before buying because it's nothing like his first album and as much as i am a fan of musician progression, Lightspeed Champion has taken a huge dip.
i however was bitterly dissapointed by his second album as the high hopes i had were dashes and spat in the face upon first listen, especially as the album stats out so good, the first track 'dead head blues' is a really good track although his rather toe curling misses of high notes at the end of the songs are dragged down towards the end of the song it still seeps well into what i feel is the best song on the album 'Marlene'. i've found myself only listening to these two songs then changing the disc in my CD player as the rest of the album is a journey of some of the grating songs i've put myself through. from the annoying repetitious chorus of the second single form the album "Madame Van Damme" to songs worthy of school musicals such as "romart".
another disappointingly annoying part of the album is the backing vocals, contrasting from the beautiful backing vocals from "emmy the great" in his debut, you've now got what sounds like the local rugby club chanting away throughout the "big guns of Highsmith" and "middle of the dark".
this is only a matter of my own opinion but i recommend listening to it through on spotify if you can before buying because it's nothing like his first album and as much as i am a fan of musician progression, Lightspeed Champion has taken a huge dip.
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