Search - Jon Hopkins :: Insides

Just keeps moving....thru the veins......

Gregory J. Del Savio | San Francisco, CA US | 06/06/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I just relatively recently came into Jon Hopkins and was pleasantly surprised by the musicality of his work. I love ambient music...apparently....but Hopkins music actually IS music. Even though I can tell it is created on a computer(mostly) it is still very, very organic.....which is kind of nice, I think, eh? This album is actually not as much of a favorite as are his previous, but if Light Through the Veins doesn't get you then you aren't going to like his other stuff.....



Oh, and , of course, if you like Coldplay...that song will sound familiar, he worked with them on their latest album viva La Vida......



Cheers!"

"Light Through The Veins" is the reason you buy this CD.

C. R. Cruze | Spokane, WA | 08/18/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I heard about Jon Hopkins through youtube when i was searching for "Life in technicolor", Life in technicolor ii, and "the escapist" video tracks by Coldplay, I found out that the melody from those great songs was actually based on a Jon Hopkins song called "Light though the veins." I later found out that Jon Hopkins worked with Coldplay on "Viva la vida" album or at least those 3 songs. Both albums Viva la vida, and Insides by Jon Hopkins metions one another in the album art book. Jon's 9 minute "Light through the veins" is an amazing song i have to repeat it over and over again, not to metion that i cant help but sing or hum the lyrics to Coldplay's "life in technicolor's" and "the escapist." Sadly though the rest of the tracks on this album are no where near as good as "Light through the veins" is. Some of the other tracks sound like club techno music which i do not like, but others are beautiful as well. I'd say that half of the tracks are worth buying, but for me "Light through the veins" was the reason i bought this album."