| Lines, The / Flood Bank |
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| Album: | Flood Bank | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Lines, The | Added: | Nov 2008 | |
| Label: | Acute Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-01-18 | Pull Date: | 2009-03-22 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 22 | Mar 15 | Mar 1 | Feb 22 | Feb 15 | Feb 8 | Feb 1 | Jan 25 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 21, 2010: | The DJ Never Has It The Landing | 4. | Apr 14, 2009: | Indie Flavored Kool-Aid The Landing | |
| 2. | Jul 01, 2009: | Signal to Noise The Landing | 5. | Mar 29, 2009: | Music to Make Babies To Instincticide | |
| 3. | Apr 21, 2009: | Indie Flavored Kool-Aid Come Home | 6. | Mar 18, 2009: | On The Warpath Come Home |
| Album Review |
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| Gears Reviewed 2009-01-11 | ||
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Holy shit, excellent reissue of this little know British post-punk band. Clangy, angular guitars, a discoish rhythm section, ghostly keyboards and a pretty dark feeling overall. As wire magazine puts it, these guys sound like “a certain ratio with tunes”. Sounds a bit industrial at times too, while their love of krautrock and dub is also pretty apparent. Highly recommended! Play with A Certain Ratio, Joy Division, The Sound, Durutti Column and be sure to check their other reissue (Memory Span) that was on the a-file recently. Picks: 1,2,5,7,10,13 *** No FCCs detected *** *1. wow! dark, atmospheric, krautrocky, industrial *2. certain ratio style, dark disco 3. midtempo, funky 4. a post punk ballad? nice though *5. faster, more experimental, weird humming voice 6. crazier than 5, kind of dissonant. *7. more upbeat, danceable 8. dark, sinister, ominous... 9. spooky, bauhaus-like *10. wow, crazy horns... very menacing and slow, like a horror film soundtrack 11. more upbeat, disco-punk, like Josef K 12. slow, mellow, almost poppy *13. pulsing rhythm alternated with disco-punk 14. slower, dreamier, distant melody *15. very atmospheric, darkly warm melody 16. weird, insect sounding, experimental | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Come Home | 9. | The Landing | |||
| 2. | Stripe | 10. | The Gate | |||
| 3. | Airlift | 11. | Have A Heart | |||
| 4. | Blow A Kiss | 12. | No Hiding | |||
| 5. | Instincticide | 13. | Flood Bank | |||
| 6. | Bucket Brigade | 14. | Fury | |||
| 7. | Tunnel Party | 15. | Ultramarine | |||
| 8. | Ursa Major | 16. | Disenchanted |