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A Secret

stephen Garry | Manchester England | 03/27/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Dubstar are one of the biggest kept secrets in the music business. Goodbye is Dubstars best album and it contains the hit singles, No More Talk, I Will Be Your Girlfriend, Cathedral Park and Stars. This album is worth a listen even if you dont buy it"

No better expression of the high point of a dead order

spencer klein | Cape Cod, USA | 08/27/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD is a seamless final addition to the body of work typified by the Cure's "Disintegration" cross-bred with "There is a light that never goes out" or "Please Please Please let me get what I want" from the Ever-Beloved Smiths. Fine, clean work that brings elements of the last two decades of electronica to the deserved fore while all the while sidestepping the worst excesses of the early 80s adolescent "I'm afraid of Girls" techo-pop as well as the equisitely ethereal, untouchable sounds as typified by the Cocteau twins, among other late contributors. This stands alongside "get lost" by Magnetic Fields as one of the ever-fewer holdouts for the glories of pure GlumPop. Excites and Depresses! Excellent."

If you like Saint Etienne, you will like this cd

Erica Anderson | Minneapolis, MN | 02/17/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I was digging around my cd collection when I came across Dubstar's "Goodbye" cd. I had bought this cd several years ago (when I lived in Milwaukee, WI). I think I bought it when I saw a review for it and the reviewer compared Dubstar to Saint Etienne. At the time I was a huge Saint Etienne fan. I decided to listen to this cd not too long ago for old times sake. For Lacuna Coil fans, the hard rock band does a version of "Stars" which can be found on their '90 album "Unleashed Memories". Personally I prefer Dubstar's version despite being a big Lacuna Coil fan. As I was listening to "Goodbye", I was easily reminded of the kitschy British pop band Saint Etienne. Sarah Blackwood had that cutesy quality in her singing that Saint Etienne's singer Sarah Cracknell possesses. The songs are equally catchy and infectious and has that '60s pop quality to the music that I hear in Saint Etienne's music. "Cathedral Park" is one of my personal favorite Dubstar songs. It is incredibly catchy and hard not to have the song stuck in your head. I also love "Just a Girl She Said". It reminded me of Lush, The Sundays, and The Cocteau Twins, with that familiar lush, shoegazer song. It is a beautiful song. All the songs on the album are great. I would have given the cd 5 stars had it not been for the remixes which unfortunately didn't do anything for me. If anything, they didn't give another dimension to the songs. "Goodbye" would have been better off without the remixes."