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Madonna
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 14.2 x 1 x 12.5 cm; 100 Grams
- Manufacturer : Domino Records
- SPARS Code : DDD
- Label : Domino Records
- ASIN : B00004TJ4E
- Number of discs : 1
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...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of - Madonna
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Sonic Youth don't sound like this any more. Someone else has to carry the anger, feed the sonic explosion with layers of molten guitars. You could compare the throbbing, distorted, beautiful noise that is this Austin TX's band second album to NYC's finest circa Evol, but that'd be to miss the point. Like comparing someone gracefully fading into the shadows with someone vibrantly, passionately alive. Also, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead clearly draw on the impassioned energy of emo-core counterparts like Fugazi and Today Is The Day. "Mistakes And Regrets" is full-throttle millennial rock, absolutely in your face--enervating, inspiring. As is virtually the whole of Madonna. In between all the sonic overload, however, there are moments of surprising subtlety and insecurity ("Claire De Lune", the tormented "A Perfect Teenhood"). Sonic Youth moved on long ago. Time to celebrate the new generation of noise terrorists. --Everett True
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Madonna is arguably their most creative and innovative effort and whilst their later work is still brilliant and inspired this second offering is where it all came together to produce something so unique. From the incredibly powerful drumming that pummels its way throughout this record to the subtle keyboard touches and jagged angular riffs that provide the bedrock for Conrad Keely's unique voice.
Naming songs is useless because it has to be heard in its entirety in one sitting but you can see where Bombay Bicycle Club lifted their Dust On The Ground riff from and thats the powerful Mistakes and Regrets, so influential are they. In fact they have been called a musicians' band for good reason and its criminal they haven't sold millions unlike their lesser contemporaries and that goes to show just how much integrity they have and how much they believe in what they do.
Imagine throwing Bauhaus, Joy Division, Smashing Pumpkins, Siouxsie, At The Drive In, Guided By Voices, Zeppelin, Discharge and My Bloody Valentine into a blender and poring it out onto ice. Well thats what they sounds like. Its everything that real music should be, and whats more, it sounds better the older it gets.
Where do I start? I'll start at the beginning. The art work (done by Conrad Keely) in the cd sleeve is very very nice. People who say artwork is dead: it clearly isn't. Not that it affects how the album sounds, it just makes it stand out even more. The affection and love in everything here is overwhelming.
First track, the intro, is called "And You Will Know Them..." is just a mixed up spoken word "And You Will Know Them By The Trail Of DEAD, DEAD, DEAD, DEAD, Dead, dead..." which then launches blissfully into..
"Mistakes and Regrets" is a very important song, and it was also the first single. It starts off with soft, lush guitars and the percussion builds up into a spoken intro, before bouncing along almost poppily into an emotional song almost instantly better than anything on the debut album.
"Totally Natural" is even better. It's raw, angry and very very loud. There's the touch of overdistortion and the less-than-perfect guitar work, which if it were anyone else would seem unprofessional, but it only endears them to me more.
"Aged Dolls" is in some ways the centrepiece to the album, being the longest and most complex. Deeply layered and tense, it's probably the most unique tracks on the album. In between every song from about mid-way in the record we are treated to minute long breathers, which are the instrumentals (there are four on the album) "Children Of The Hydra's Teeth", "Up From Redemption" and "The Day The Air Turned Blue", which all sound great and are effortlessly preparing us for the most epic track you have ever heard...
... And then "A Perfect Teenhood" kicks forth in a spasm of angst and power, emotionally awe inspiring and utterly engrossing, anthemic and legendary. I cannot describe how this hit me when I first heard it. It is Trail of Dead's greatest ever achievement. You can download the substantially different live version off the website, if you want to hear it from a different angle. The band will probably never ever top this ever again; so you have to sit back and relish it as it rampages out of your speakers and makes everything else at hand seem trivial. Utter brilliance.
The record finishes nicely with the reserved "Sigh Your Children", and then there is a wall of feedback noise signalling the end of one of the most important albums of the twentieth century.
The Rawk? Look for 'Mistakes and Regrets', 'Totally Natural' and 'Perfect Teenhood'. Melodious and subtle?: 'Claire de Lune', ' The Day the Air Turned Blue' and 'Aged Dolls'. Everything else falls exactly half way between the two. It's been on my stereo since it was released, and every record I've listened to inbetween (Rival Schools, Flaming Lips, Frank Black, PJ Harvey, Royksopp, The Ghost etc etc) has confirmed my beleif that 'Madonna' is a masterpiece -- not only of 'emo' but modern rock in all its forms.
Buy this album and believe.
This band are not your new Sonic Youth, they are not your new Fugazi, they are something simply 'new', a convulsing, frenzied mixture of anger, beauty and sound. While Trail Of Dead can throw themselves headfirst into the ground like a hyperactive child on 'Totally Natural' and, of course, the breathtaking 'A Perfect Teenhood', they're born to write songs which force you to look in awe.
The likes of 'Mark David Chapman', and the gasping, seven-minute 'Aged Dolls' display guitar sonics that can leave a listener drooling on their stereo at 50 paces. By the time post-'A Perfect Teenhood' comedown 'Sigh Your Children' is seeping out of your speakers, you feel beaten, bruised and happy. Exactly what a great record should make you feel.
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