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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
So much depth, so much to listen to!, 10 Jul 2008
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This is a truly impressive first offering from Get Well Soon. It is as eclectic a set of songs as I can remember buying - there are so many influences it's difficult to list them. Perhaps the best description is to say that the songs vary along the scale between Spinto Band (Nice and Nicely Done) and Radiohead. Quite a long scale, I'm sure you'll agree, but then this is an album of variety.
The arrangements are massive: with most of the instruments you can imagine - and some you may not be able to - creating a really full sound which is also, at times, stripped right down to the interesting and flexible voice of Konstantin Gropper. And Gropper's voice is used expertly throughout, at times multi-tracked, at times strained and loud, at times soft and silky. Perhaps the most exciting thing about this album for me is that despite the fact that I've had it in my CD player for several weeks, I still feel it growing on me.
The depth of the music is massive, and will keep you going for weeks and weeks (and, I imagine, years and years). Perhaps my only problem here, is that it's difficult to feel any emotional impact from the songs. But that may come. It will certainly take me a long time to get a handle on all the details here, but it is definitely something I am looking forward to doing!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Don't be fooled by the folk label, 3 Jul 2008
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This was categorised as a folk music album, which it most definitely is not. I would say that it is more of an indie pop type thing, although the pop bit is on the mournful side, more reminiscent of the Eels or Radiohead at their most normal.
This is thoughtful music, music that might well appeal to those who like to listen and listen and listen again to their music, finding meaning in everything. It reminded me of stuff I would have loved when I was about 19, but which I now no longer have the time to become completely obsessed by.
The songs are well put together and the album is coherent in terms of sound and themes. In fact at times too coherent as I did find after track six that my attention started to wander a little, and that one song began to blend slightly with the others. Each time I listened to an individual track I liked it, but I preferred listening to them this way rather than in one go.
His voice is rather reminiscent of E from the Eels, which is no bad thing. Altogether a pleasant enough album, and the packaging was lovely. I wish I had discovered him ten years ago when I probably would have been raving over this.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
To the beat of my automatic heart, 3 Jul 2008
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If the worst thing that you could say of this epic debut by Konstantin Gropper [Get Well Soon] is that it sounds like so many other leftfield artsists, it's not really a problem. The artists in question you see are bands like Arcade Fire, Mercury Rev and Radiohead, and songwriters like Rufus Wainwright and Sufjan Stevens. It's weird and off kilter stuff. It doesn't give up it's secrets lightly. In places it's a strage industrial dirge that eventually with repeated listening gives way to a dark sense of humour and a pallet of beautiful and rich melodies. Tick, Tack! goes my automatic heart is a wonderful example. Drooled vocals deliver a witty lyric backed by gently pinging percussion. There's masive scale to the arrangements with strings, horns, and all sorts of unusual instruments and sounds. There's even a wonderfully downtempo version of Born Slippy which builds and build through it's course without even a hint of a techno beat. It's the only cover on an album full of originals that took three years in the making. Time well spent i'd say.
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