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Underarms & Sideways [Extra tracks]

~ Hope Blister
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  • Audio CD (30 Jan 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Extra tracks
  • Label: 4ad
  • ASIN: B000BRP2BY
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Ex-This Mortal Coil member and founder of the seminal 4AD record label, Ivo Watts-Russell is also the leader of the Hope Blister, an ambient pop project with a revolving cast of musicians. UNDERARMS & SIDEWAYS brings together two albums inone package. The first, originally released in 1999, is a series of outtakes from the group's first album ...SMILE'S OK. The second is a remix album that features electronica revisions of UNDERARMS material by Kompakt's Markus Guentner. The music on both discs, which is almost entirely instrumental, is ethereal, moody, often dark, but always compelling. While in keeping with 4AD's indie aesthetic, UNDERARMS & SIDEWAYS is lush, complex, and worthy of repeated listens.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Quality cover, shame about the music, 2 Feb 2006
By Mr. G. J. Aspland "asplandg" (Suffolk, UK) - See all my reviews
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As an owner of The Hope Blister's first album, "...smile's O.K.", as soon as I heard about this release, I had it on my wish list. The Hope Blister were described then as "sort of a sequal to This Mortal Coil", and having got two T.M.C. albums in my all time top ten, it was no surprise that I liked Smile's O.K. very much too. With glorious vocals by Louise Rutkowski, how could it fail to impress? So it came as a massive let down to hear Underarms and Sideways. When I first put it on, I thought my CD player had gone wrong. The first track consists of several minutes of nearly constant noise, taken from one tiny snippet of "Is Jesus Your Pal". Listening more closely revealed that there were other things going on, but far too little. The rest of the album isn't much better. There's nothing which you could call a "song", and several samples are copied from Smile's O.K., which, whilst being very much Hope Blister, it feels like cheating - not trying to think of something new.
I'm going to give it a chance, but so far I can't imagine me listening to this much ,if at all, in the future. A real missed oportunity which I can't recommend to anyone.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Mellow music for restful times, 18 Feb 2006
By G. Austin "graeme_austin" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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While the other reviewer commented on the lack of songs in this album, my expectations once I'd read the sleeve notes, was that this would be an instrumental/sampling kind of album. And I was not disappointed.

In fact, this is a very good double disc of ambient music based on the Smile's OK collection of tracks. For those who enjoyed the instrumental tracks on the This Mortal Coil albums, this will be perfect.

But if you want another set of Ivo-inspired cover versions, you will indeed be very disappointed.

Enjoy this record ... but in a very chilled out kind of way ;-)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not worthless but priceless, 14 Aug 2009
Much of the criticism of this release focuses on the lack of the usual vocal tours-de-force that one might expect on a Mortal Coil / Hope Blister release. This is clearly an exercise in something other than banal drama - it's a beautifully empty work to get utterly lost in, more akin to Phil Niblock and Mirror than Cocteau Twins et al. It's the culmination of all of the atmospheric and abstract ambitions of the TMC and THB projects. I don't like the 'Sideways' disc as much because the more techno-y approach to minimalism rarely works for me.
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I never wanted This Mortal Coil to end, so presumably like many others invested a lot of wishful thinking in Hope Blister. I will it to be different even when it's playing. Read more
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