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Running Girl

~ Ooberman
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (29 Oct 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Rotodisc
  • ASIN: B00005Q8V8
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 192,817 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Running girl
2. Flashing light at sunset
3. We'll know when we get there
4. Blink of an eye
5. Here come the ice wolves
6. Ghosts
7. The kitchen fire
8. Follow the sun
9. Alone at last

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Running Girl is the follow-up to Ooberman's debut album The Magic Treehouse. The incandescent "Shorley Wall", a single from The Magic Treehouse, was the minor indie hit that first endeared blossoming indie starlets Ooberman to the fey brigade. But where that single was bright, breezy and bulging with pop's lucky charms, Running Girl suggests something tremendously unfortunate has occurred in Ooberland. Beyond the brooding, fizzling opening title track--a rare, noisy Ooberman aberration--this is a work of folksome sadness, all finger-picked guitars and delicate, hushed vocals. "Flashing Light at Sunset" and "Here Come the Ice Wolves" find the band's past uber-twee excesses thankfully curtailed--the former a star-gazing torch-song sung by Sophia Churney, the latter delving into eerily mediaeval, fairy-tale territory, but stopping just short of sugar-plum fairy cutsieness. Where the grand pop moments do come, then--see the heart-warming explosion of elegant sentiment that forms the climax of "We'll Know When We Get There"--they sound truly rousing. It's a quiet achievement. --Louis Pattison

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5.0 out of 5 stars Running Girl, 10 Oct 2001
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The first Ooberman release for about 8 months is a 9-track mini-album. Lead track "Running Girl" has vocoders and acoustic guitars plus a few random noises at the start, but turns into a quite disturbing little ditty at the end with Sophia shouting 'Watch me run!'

Elsewhere, there's the anthemic sing-a-long "We'll Know When We Get There" and the eerie "Ghosts"... 'Let's hang with the ghosts of Saturday night' Sophia sings...

The Russian influenced "Here Come the Ice Wolves" is perhaps the least-Ooberman-y song on the EP. It's cold, magical and really quite good.

Closing track "Alone At Last" is penned by guitarist Andy and is a soft piano track, bringing the EP to a soft close.

This is Ooberman at their best. Although it's a lot different from previous work, you still know it's Ooberman and it has that distinctive feel. Well worth buying.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Running Girl- superb mini album, 28 Jul 2004
Runing girl, the mini album relased post Magic Treehouse is simply one of the most compact and beautiful albums around. Why Oob failed to make the big time we shall never know - but the huge delay in the production and release of Hey Pretunko probably contributed. Oob should be bigger than Coldplay right now.

The arrangement and mixing of the album is superb, with some very memorable, highly melodic and develop tunes. "...Ice Wolves" is perhaps my favourite track on the album, followed by "Running Girl" - melody, shape and lyrics combine to make Indie tracks that say something and are artful.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Their best work... which says something, 2 Nov 2003
By Mr. P. T. Huxley "The Rock Badger" (Twickenham, UK) - See all my reviews
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Writing this review after the band have split up, after the long-awaited Hey Petrunko (which was also very good), I have more perspective on things. Yet every time I listen to this CD I find it better than before.

This album is indeed very soft, and has a very night-time feel to it. But it is interesting stuff. Ghosts, Here Come The Ice Wolves and Follow the Sun are my favourite songs but all of them are excellent and the album flows beautifully.

Not a contrasting album, very much a "mood" album but delicious music none the less.

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