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Track Listings
| 1. Say Something New |
| 2. You Can’t Hurry Love |
| 3. Chico |
| 4. New Friend |
| 5. Diana Ross |
| 6. Warm Night |
| 7. Foreign Country |
| 8. Seems Fine |
| 9. Lovin Kind |
| 10. Lonely As Can Be |
| 11. This One’s For You |
| 12. Concretes For Computers: Warm Night Video Starring The Leopard And His Girlfriend, A Short Film Starring The Concretes, Snap Shots and More. |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Concretes' superb eponymous debut is the product of a long and complicated history. The Stockholm-based group started life as an all-girl trio, but has since expanded to a larger concern with eight core members and a floating crew of backing singers, harpists, violinists and cellists. Corralling such a large cast into anything like a coherent vision is no easy task, but it's one that the Concretes manage with some aplomb on a consistently spectacular album. The sound conjured by the Concretes' orchestra, unlikely though it might seem, owes most to Mazzy Star and the Velvet Underground. There's also an affinity for Motown, demonstrated by the titles "Diana Ross" and "You Can't Hurry Love" (not a cover version) and by a knack for wedding simple pop tunefulness to complex musical arrangements. Mostly, however, the mood is one of studied, luxuriant gloom. All the Concretes' songs even the more upbeat ones, are conveyed with a similar tone of lachrymose sincerity, and the languid, slurring drawl of Concretes vocalist Victoria Bergsman is evocative of both Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval and the Velvets' ice-maiden collaborator Nico. --Andrew Mueller
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Debut album from Swedish indie-pop octet who cross the shimmering, close-harmony soul of 60s Motown girl groups with the lo-fi, shambolic style of classic 80s and 90s indie bands like the Pastels, Mazzy Star and the Jesus & Mary Chain. Produced by the band and Jari Haapalainen (International Noise Conspiracy), the album includes the single 'You Can't Hurry Love' (which is not a cover of the Supremes classic).
The Concretes' superb eponymous debut is the product of a long and complicated history. The Stockholm-based group started life as an all-girl trio, but has since expanded to a larger concern with eight core members and a floating crew of backing singers, harpists, violinists and cellists. Corralling such a large cast into anything like a coherent vision is no easy task, but it's one that the Concretes manage with some aplomb on a consistently spectacular album. The sound conjured by the Concretes' orchestra, unlikely though it might seem, owes most to Mazzy Star and the Velvet Underground. There's also an affinity for Motown, demonstrated by the titles "Diana Ross" and "You Can't Hurry Love" (not a cover version) and by a knack for wedding simple pop tunefulness to complex musical arrangements. Mostly, however, the mood is one of studied, luxuriant gloom. All the Concretes' songs even the more upbeat ones, are conveyed with a similar tone of lachrymose sincerity, and the languid, slurring drawl of Concretes vocalist Victoria Bergsman is evocative of both Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval and the Velvets' ice-maiden collaborator Nico. --Andrew Mueller
Description
Debut album from Swedish indie-pop octet who cross the shimmering, close-harmony soul of 60s Motown girl groups with the lo-fi, shambolic style of classic 80s and 90s indie bands like the Pastels, Mazzy Star and the Jesus & Mary Chain. Produced by the band and Jari Haapalainen (International Noise Conspiracy), the album includes the single 'You Can't Hurry Love' (which is not a cover of the Supremes classic).