| Appliance / Are You Earthed? |
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| Album: | Are You Earthed? | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Appliance | Added: | Apr 2003 | |
| Label: | Mute Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-07-21 | Pull Date: | 2003-09-22 |
| Week Ending: | Aug 17 | Jul 27 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 09, 2011: | Music Casserole Go Native | 4. | Jul 24, 2003: | Off the Path Tuesday Is Nearly Over | |
| 2. | Aug 13, 2003: | Bite and Hide Go Native | 5. | Jul 23, 2003: | Bite and Hide Go Native | |
| 3. | Jul 24, 2003: | Civil Society Go Native | 6. | Jul 21, 2003: | Radio Red Well Go Native |
| Album Review |
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| Gabe Reviewed 2003-06-26 | ||
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The tick-tock of mechanical rhythms set to medium tempos, warm Moog synth and bass textures, some 808 squiggles, and plaintive, unadorned vocals - that's the Appliance formula (despite the press release's claim that "a guitar and drum kit once dominated"), that's what they deliver here. I don't detect a lot of artistic growth in Appliance over the past few albums but where they're at is not a bad place. It's pleasant, mildly sedative music. 1. "Please stay the same" lyric might be their own band philosophy in song! 2. Chunky, muscular bass line 3. Swinging the other way from the previous track, we have a mushy track that ambles along 4. So calming I'm falling asleep reviewing it 5. Homage to the Who's "Who Are You" - check the melody and the stuttery synth 6. Unremarkable 7. Some pep in this step, a funky little march 8. Doped recitation of lyrics over an ultra-mellow backing 9. Pretty guitar filigrees and a lightweight kuchu-kuchu rhythm 10. Slow, sweet, lazy tune; the sharp guitar chords in the middle punctuate it nicely 11. "Switch off the gravity / I'm leaving"; gorgeous tension between wanting to fly free and being "earthed" | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Tuesday Is Nearly Over | 6. | Violins | |||
| 2. | Go Native | 7. | The Blue Rider | |||
| 3. | Fruits of the Sea | 8. | 88 | |||
| 4. | Mountains I | 9. | Boats | |||
| 5. | As Far As I Can See | 10. | Mountains Ii | |||
| 11. | Are You Earthed? | |||||