| Marr, Johnny / Call The Comet |
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| Album: | Call The Comet | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Marr, Johnny | Added: | 09/2018 | |
| Label: | Warner Bros. Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2018-09-30 | Pull Date: | 2018-12-02 |
| Week Ending: | 18 Nov | 11 Nov | 7 Oct |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 13, 2018: | Magnetized Toner My Eternal | 3. | Nov 05, 2018: | regular school Hi Hello, A Different Gun, My Eternal | |
| 2. | Nov 09, 2018: | Totally A My Eternal | 4. | Oct 05, 2018: | Old Fart at Play Actor Attractor |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Stace Reviewed 2018-09-26 | ||
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Call the Comet / Marr, Johnny Label: Warner Bros Reviewed: 9/26/2018 Reviewed by: DJ Stace Alumnus of The Smiths, Pretenders, TheThe, Modest Mouse and more delivers a solo album that sounds (surprise surprise!) like a solo album from the guitarist from The Smiths, Pretenders, TheThe and Modest Mouse. Unremarkable, over-produced and drives home the fact that Johnny Marr is a great session guitarist/sideman, but works better with others in the driver's seat. Full of great CNN soundbed. FCCs: None detected RIYL: The Smiths, Pretenders, The The, The Church Play: 11, 12 1. "Rise" 5:04 - Up tempo, anthemic, sounds a bit on the Sisters of Mercy side. 2. "The Tracers" 4:35 - uptempo, driving rhythm with Love & Rockets-style "woo-woo" throughout. 3. "Hey Angel" 5:37 - mid-tempo, but with a hard beat. Soaring generic lead guitar work. 4. "Hi Hello" 4:23 - Mid-tempo, over-produced, jangle-guitar, Smiths-style tune. You can almost hear Morrisey baritone singing it. Smith's fans might dig this one, so do a double-shot with something good. 5. "New Dominions" 4:24 - Channel shifting electro-beat at the beginning gives way to Kraut-ish snoozer. 6. "Day In Day Out" 4:43 - Another mid-tempo acoustic guitar jangle pop tune. Sounds vaguely like The Church. 7. "Walk Into the Sea" 6:02 - Starts off with some echo heavy piano, leading to strings, leading to repetitive solo guitar riff, leading to muted highhat, leading to breathy, smokey vocals. Finally kicks in all shoe-gazey at about 2:20. Epic-ish. 8. "Bug" 4:40 - Mid-tempo Echo & the Bunnymenesque yawner. Maybe about pandemics? 9. "Actor Attractor" 5:37 - Mid-tempo fuzzy, krauty, breathy. You want it to kick in, but it just plods on the same way for 5:36 10. "Spiral Cities" 4:08 - Mid-tempo Psychedelic Furs-ish melody. More breathy adolescent lyrics. 11. **"My Eternal" 3:17 - up-tempo candidate for the "Breakfast Club" remake. Very 80's. some will like it for that. 12. **"A Different Gun" 5:26 - Starts all light and airy, quickly giving way to a mid-tempo Smiths-style closer. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Rise | 7. | Walk Into The Sea | |||
| 2. | The Tracers | 8. | Bug | |||
| 3. | Hey Angel | 9. | Actor Attractor | |||
| 4. | Hi Hello | 10. | Spiral Cities | |||
| 5. | New Dominions | 11. | My Eternal | |||
| 6. | Day In Day Out | 12. | A Different Gun |