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Format:Audio CD
If you've not heard of AC Acoustics you can't really be blamed. Even in the aftermath of this, their finest work, they received little more than a wall of silence from the unforgiving music media, save for a few plays on the Evening Session. In places this album bears the hallmarks of their fellow countrymen the Jesus and Mary Chain - howling guitars, frenzied vocals ("Fast", "Stunt Girl"), whereas "Hammerhead" is a gorgeous ballad which eventually accelerates into an explosive climax, and the opening and closing tracks "Hand Passes Empty" and "Can't See Anything" are superbly crafted rock songs - imagine Placebo without the nasal whine (Brian Molko is a long-time Acoustics fan, incidentally). In many places, it matches the incendiary, emotional highs and lows of Radiohead's "The Bends", but lyrically it's a lot more of an esoteric affair, no existential angst here, merely confusion and eccentricities ("In this light/I wear my hammerhead high/On a big stick/With an ice cream float" being just one example). I find that the often bizarre lyrics don't really detract from the album, but rather serve to make it all the more intriguing. This is a great collection of songs that gel together well to form a cohesive, tight and extremely rewarding listen. In my opinion, AC's two albums since this, "Understanding Music" and "O", don't quite scale the same heights, and I fear their chance to grab the limelight may have passed, although how this album went virtually unnoticed I really don't know! There's not a great deal of wasted space on this CD - and in "Stunt Girl", there is one of my favourite singles ever - a three-minute burst of spiky, psychedelic distorted rock. Never mind the money - this is a cerebral investment, and one that for me at least, reaped great dividends.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Released the same year as OK Computer, this album was somewhat overshadowed and failed to appear on anyone's "Best Of '97" list. How criminal is that?
ac acoustics have been refining their white-noise-red-hot guitar assault for years. They started as Mary Chain afficionados on Able Treasury, went briefly Velvets on the Hand Passes Plenty EP and reached amazing heights with this almost perfect rock album.
Melodies, riffs and a tight rhythm section. Just buy it, all right?
Then you can purchase Understanding Music and O - both released since Victory Parts.
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