Track Listings (13) - Disc #1| All Artists: Film School Title: Hideout Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Beggars Banquet Original Release Date: 1/1/2007 Re-Release Date: 9/11/2007 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Style: Indie & Lo-Fi Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 607618025625, 0607618025663 |
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Their second full-length builds on the band's pretty, shoegazer pop and richly textured space rock soundscapes by emphasizing powerful rhythms and beautiful melodies that take the songwriting to a new level. "Hideout" is m... more » |
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Product Description Their second full-length builds on the band's pretty, shoegazer pop and richly textured space rock soundscapes by emphasizing powerful rhythms and beautiful melodies that take the songwriting to a new level. "Hideout" is more like a sonic galaxy that engulfs you from all angles. You're enveloped by layers of reverb, loops, and the interplay of male/female voices. A driving, forceful rhythm section fuels a propulsive energy that gives an urgent quality to much of the album, whereas other tracks convey a wistful melancholy. It's this combination of ethereal atmosphere and strong rhythm that makes the album wholly compelling and promises a powerful live experience. "Wonderfully off-kilter pop songs" - NME. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsReady to graduate to a bigger audience L. Mitchell | Brooklyn, NY, USA | 09/16/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "When I heard Film School was coming out with their third album, I anxiously awaited it. Wow, it's even better than I had hoped! They've perfected a neo-post-punk sound - guitar driven and atmospheric - and developed a great set of tunes here. I especially like Sick Hipster and Lectric, but the entire album is outstanding; you can tell an effort was made to really craft each song. Definitely worth getting!" I agree with Paul's review before mine... Wounded Knee | Ohio's North Coast... | 10/09/2007 (3 out of 5 stars) "Gone are the combination of anthemic builds, pop sensibility, arena rock moments and melancholy melodies of last year's eponymous album. In the absence of this combination is just the melancholy. And that's not to say it's all bad: "Sick Hipster..." and "Two Kinds" are among my favorite of all of the band's tracks. But where songs like "Pitfalls" and "He's a Deep Deep Lake" had multiple dynamics to them, the songs on Hideout seem to emphasize drone and repetition more. That's not to say that I think the album even sounds like MBV, which I have read in other media reviews; I think mood-wise and lyrically it apes mid-'90s The Cure most, with perhaps some touches of Swervedriver (tell me the Lectric backbeat doesn't sound a lot like "Last Train to Satansville") and darker Ride songs. I'm not saying any of this is bad, just a different cup of tea from the previous album. Cheers to them for not making the same album over again. For casual fans, though, it might be worthwhile to consider downloading on a song-by-song basis rather buying the whole album offhand, though." Third album good but not the sensation of last year's album Paul Allaer | Cincinnati | 09/28/2007 (4 out of 5 stars) "Film School re-emerged last year following a long lay-off after their decent debut 2001 album (A Brilliant Career) with the sensational self-titled album, which for me was the best album of 2006, bar none. Thankfully not taking another 5 years between albums, now comes the highly anticipated third album.
"Hideout" (13 tracks, 49 min.) starts off with a blast, first single "Dear Me", followed by an even better "Meanmediah", with lots of distorted guitars and a thundering bass line. The best song of the album (for me anyway) closes the first half of the album, "Two Kinds", a semi-pensive tune with eventually soaring guitars and synths. The second half is less urgent, such as the reflective tracks "Go Down Together" and "Compare", but then it picks up again with a menacing "Florida", and eventually the excellent thundering closer "What I Meant". Don't get me wrong, this is a fine album, but it suffers in comparison with the brilliant "Film School" album from last year. "Hideout" is steady throughout but misses a couple of the epic songs that highlighted "Film School" and really put that one into the stratosphere. That aside, I still have not had a chance to see these guys in concert and I am really looking forward to a chance to catch them live at some point." |
