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Audio CD (18 Oct 2004)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Wea
ASIN: B0002ZCJG6
Other Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Origin is the Swedish rock 'n' rollers' follow-up to the acclaimed Behind the Music. Features the single "Big Time" plus ten other tracks.

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Led by Ebbot Lundberg, Swedish retro-rockers the Soundtrackof Our Lives started making inroads worldwide in the early 2000s. By the time of their 2005 album, ORIGIN VOL. 1, the group had definitively broken through to the mainstream, evencharting in the notoriously hard-to-crack US. While TSOOL has never been a band of revivalists self-consciously recreating the sounds of a bygone era, they are clearly indebted tothe big guitar riffs, anthemic sweep, and larger-than-life vision of the latter-day Move and mid-period Who and Pretty Things. In other words, ORIGIN VOL. 1 is Swede-filtered Britrock for those who find neo-psychedelia a tad too precious, but still hold dearly to old-school classic-rock values. ORIGIN finds Lundberg and company further refining those values, and adding an unmistakably contemporary (but never anomalous) production sheen.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sweden's Finest Musical Export, 7 Nov 2004

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I first encountered The Soundtrack Of Our Lives through their superb single 'Sister Surround'. Taken from this album's predecessor, Behind The Music (2001), it set a standard that I thought it would be impossible to match over the course of a whole album. However, not only did other songs on the album match it, the whole record was richly melodic pop/rock of the highest standard.

So now comes the follow up, (although I'm only familiar with these two albums, this is apparently their fourth), and, I'm delighted to say, it's every bit as good as Behind The Music. In an age when guitar music is largely dominated by dreary and earnest bands like Razorlight, Coldplay and Snow Patrol, it's gratifying to find an album made by a band that sound like they really enjoy what they do and who, when they get it right, are capable of something really special. And, on songs like 'Transcendental Suicide' and 'Bigtime', they get it very right.

As a whole, this album probably rocks rather more than Behind The Music, but it manages to successfully fuse quality pop melodies to rock dynamics. And no-one else these days seems to use power chords and sweet key changes like The Soundtrack Of Our Lives.

Nothing on this album is really very daring or original (I'm sure the band themselves would agree), but the sheer quality of the material carries it off. There are things here that have been done dozens of times before, but they're done with such style and conviction that they still seem utterly fresh. Whether it's the gentle melancholia of 'Song For The Others', the squally Hivesian racket of 'Mother One Track Mind', the almost Divine Comedy-esque 'Long Summer Dream', or the practically picture perfect rock of 'Age Of No Reply', this is great music being made by a really great band. If Noel Gallagher were capable of writing (or playing, for that matter) music as good as this, then Oasis would never have become the pathetic joke they have been for the last eight or nine years, but would instead still be turning out vigorous, life affirming tunes like these.

It's high praise indeed to suggest it, but even taking Abba into account, I'd say The Soundtrack Of Our Lives are the best band ever to come out of Sweden. Treat yourself; buy this album for the melodies, the arrangements, the great touches, or just because you like great music. But make sure you discover how good this band is for yourself.

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