- Audio CD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Import
- ASIN: B0017PCL90
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Format:Audio CD
White Williams comes on very much like a Hot Chip and Beck collaboration, covering the T. Rex and Bowie back catalogues, which in principle sounds unmissable. `Smoke', however, is a low-key party pop album, which combines sultry beats on `In The Club' with funky but uneventful bass work `Going Down'. `New Violence' opens suspiciously like Gamma Ray and `Violator' contains a stolen My Bloody Valentine-like drone sample, which while enchanting is equally perplexing.
`Lice In The Rainbow' is a downright incongruous slab of Gameboy-freaking-outery that is plainly annoying. Latter tracks like `We Know The Shadows' are anonymous and remind the listener why Hot Chip aren't more successful. `Smoke' is acceptable in places, interesting in others, but mute overall. It lacks an Over And Over, it lacks sauce, and what is a Chip without sauce?
`Lice In The Rainbow' is a downright incongruous slab of Gameboy-freaking-outery that is plainly annoying. Latter tracks like `We Know The Shadows' are anonymous and remind the listener why Hot Chip aren't more successful. `Smoke' is acceptable in places, interesting in others, but mute overall. It lacks an Over And Over, it lacks sauce, and what is a Chip without sauce?
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's well worth it.
Excellent album - buy if you like good electronic pop music with a seedy underbelly.
Excellent album - buy if you like good electronic pop music with a seedy underbelly.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Because the other review for this album is misleading . . .
21 Feb 2008
Format:Audio CD
I couldn't let this album stay on Amazon with one misleading (maybe even slightly misguided) review and only two stars to its name. White Williams debut is an outstanding collection of neon-colored neo psych pop songs that brings to mind not so much Beck and Girl Talk (whose main connections to White Williams are their shared interests in sound pastiche and, in Girl Talk's, case a tour with White Williams and Dan Deacon) but instead vintage glam and new wave, especially Roxy Music, Marc Bolan, and Berlin-era Bowie. While the lyrics remain artfully abstract and largely unimportant (a quality which may also be responsible for Beck comparisons), the production here is fantastic. While this is far from music that will appeal to people looking for emotional resonance and a clear-cut message, Smoke is an album that will make forward-thinking music fans think, "This is exactly what today's pop music should sound like."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Comparisons and a Sentence Summary
25 Feb 2008
Format:Audio CD
Smoke is a fun album composed of catchy electronic pop songs and interesting guitar sounds. Any comparisons to Girl Talk are completely unfounded. Tortoise and Hot Chip toured together, but any attempt at comparing these two bands would be completely nonsensical (Hot Chip totally outplays Tortoise, j/k).
When discussing White Williams' album, I have found it most helpful to reference Blur. White Williams has the British rock sound from the seventies and eighties. His sound experiments have the same feel as many moments on 13 (by Blur). Williams tends to be more danceable all around.
When discussing White Williams' album, I have found it most helpful to reference Blur. White Williams has the British rock sound from the seventies and eighties. His sound experiments have the same feel as many moments on 13 (by Blur). Williams tends to be more danceable all around.
Great Album
3 Sep 2011
Format:Vinyl
Same here, couldn't let this album sit here with bad reviews. I keep hoping this guy puts something out soon! This album may sound like it's from the 80's, but that doesn't mean it's not ahead of it's time.
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