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A Vintage Burden [Import]

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Audio CD (15 May 2006)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Import
Label: Kranky
ASIN: B000F1IOIO
Other Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 35,655 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. There Is No End 7:49 �0.79

2. Spring 5:20 �0.79

3. Dormant Love 4:54 �0.79

4. Black Bed Blues 17:37 Album Only

5. Two Birds 12:40 Album Only

6. Hope Against Hope 5:13 �0.79

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The Austin band Charalambides plays quietly beautiful, ethereal guitar music under the interweaving layered vocals of singer Christina Carter. "There Is No End" is a slowly revolving, free-form blues, while "Spring" is ushered in by chiming guitar harmonics, and "Dormant Love" is as close as the band gets to a haunting ballad--with the emphasis on haunting.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a vintage burden, 15 Dec 2006

By	ben sharpe "nicedayforasulk" (nottingham) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There's a strange beauty about the Charalambides, its taken me about ten listens before I've realised that they are just two guitars and a beautiful voice, no bass, no drums yet a warm, full sound, sometimes its sparse like at the start of Hope Against Hope, the fragile guitar line carefully mimicking the words of Christina Carter. Like most duos there has a been a romantic connection, Tom & Christina are by all accounts ex husband and wife.
Songs stretch and sprawl to upwards of fifteen minutes yet never outstay their welcome, they build but unlike say Godspeed, never to a climax of brutal white noise that has so regularly been used as the trump card for bands who like to stretch out their songs. Instead they build in beauty, the icy vocals stand apart like perfectly formed icebergs, the guitar lines are glacial and carefully picked, guiding their way like the Titanic through treacherous waters only to eventually end up crashing, yet far from disaster the collision causes something beautiful, the way a tragedy can sometimes reveal the true inner person, an opportunity to say what you've been holding in, to tell the one you love just how much they mean to you.
Imagine if Espers stripped right down and understood the beauty of slowness, the importance of the silence between the notes and the joys of spring.

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