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Start Breaking My Heart

~ Manitoba
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (7 Oct 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: The Leaf Label
  • ASIN: B000059YWM
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 100,112 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Dundas, Ontario 4:24£0.79
Listen  2. People Eating Fruit 6:11£0.79
Listen  3. Mammals vs Reptiles 4:47£0.79
Listen  4. Brandon 5:23£0.79
Listen  5. Children Play Well Together 3:06£0.79
Listen  6. Lemon Yoghourt 2:24£0.79
Listen  7. James' Second Haircut 4:15£0.79
Listen  8. Schedules and Fares 5:13£0.79
Listen  9. Paul's Birthday 6:56£0.79
Listen10. Happy Ending 3:02£0.79

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Start Breaking My Heart, Manitoba's debut album has succeeded in reaffirming his status amongst the chattering electronic classes as one of the brightest talents to emerge over the course of 2000. The singles "People Eating Fruit" and "Paul's Birthday" appear here in all their glory, supplemented with a swathe of new tracks that cook up messed beats, lost grooves and a future jazz mentality in a single frothy disc. Uneasy grooves which stab, hoot and crinkle their way through swathes of rich percussion; coming close to losing the plot before capturing and unfolding something beautiful from the chaos. --Kingsley Marshall


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Dan Snaith's 2001 debut, START BREAKING MY HEART, was released under the name Manitoba (well before Snaith was forced to change the name of his project to Caribou when Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators sued for the rights). No matterwhat name he goes by, however, Snaith's music is always dazzling, ranking among the most innovative and engaging post rock on the scene.
START BREAKING MY HEART sports Snaith'susual mixture of digital electronica clatterscapes, shoegaze-inspired guitar noise, moody atmospheres, and psychedelic grandeur. To enter Snaith's world is to enter a labyrinth ofjagged thorns and velvet cushions; usually paired within the same song. Snaith improved his formula progressively across UP IN FLAMES and THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS (this album's successors), but for the curious ear interested in fresh, sonic hybrids, START BREAKING has plenty to offer.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Martian windchimes and other curious beats, 28 April 2001
Although nothing revolutionary, Manitoba's Dan Snaith (a classically trained pianist and mathematician, but don't be scared away by that) takes all your favourite beeps, glitches and icecream van chimes and sculpts them into the sort of charming, twitchy electronica that will keep anyone happy until Aphex Twin, Plaid and Boards of Canada get around to releasing new albums. There are a few stretches that sound like Cubase on 4/4 autopilot but then the whole thing will kick off into a wonky Sun Ra riff or subside into tinkling, summery, half-heard children's voices and the sort of electric piano figures last heard on some mid-70s Matching Mole or Hatfield and the North album.

As with the best (and worst) of this kind of electronica, Manitoba layers skittering high velocity beats against snatches of melancholic and unexpected melody, music box rhythms and almost subliminal but evocative intrusions of real life sounds. When it works it's playful, engaging and joyous and even when it doesn't you know it'll change into something new in about 15 seconds.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars there's better out there..., 15 Jan 2006
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This is a good purchase, but not quite as monumental as the advertising stickers on the cover may suggest - at times Dan Snaiths enthusiasm and creativity seems to run out of steam, and the music is occasionally left a little cold and technical. Buy "Up in Flames" first, which has much more body and richness to it - if that's what you want from your electronic music!
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