Track Listings (9) - Disc #1| All Artists: Movietone Title: Blossom Filled Streets Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Drag City Original Release Date: 9/5/2000 Re-Release Date: 9/18/2000 Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Experimental Music Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 781484019329, 5034202007920 |
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Here are a couple of handy comparison points to make when trying to impress bohemian friends with your knowledge of Movietone: Robert Wyatt's gentle, English prog-folkiness; the free-jazz inflections of Movietone's fellow ... more » |
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Amazon.com Here are a couple of handy comparison points to make when trying to impress bohemian friends with your knowledge of Movietone: Robert Wyatt's gentle, English prog-folkiness; the free-jazz inflections of Movietone's fellow Bristol experimentalists Flying Saucer Attack, Crescent, and Third Eye Foundation; St Etienne, if they'd ever spent time on the windswept, static streets of Chicago; the seductive humor of Jacques Tati's films, all blurred and snapped again through an antique Brownie camera; and seagulls hovering over the broken pier on Brighton front. The Blossom Filled Streets is an apt description for this most bewitching of mood-creators: every last echoed guitar chord and faraway horn resonates with the sound of England's backwater towns. No track should be picked out--as soporific and surprising as "1930s Beach House" and "In a Marine Light" are--because the whole is a seamless soundscape, the soundtrack to a movie that just doesn't need to be made. --Everett True Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsWistful, Cinematic, Intimate 09/06/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "Movietone wander openheartedly through a dreamy, gentle, quiet room, out onto a lawn, and into a sunny forest, before emerging to a seashore. The music is acoustic and slow, with soft guitar, bass, clarinet and Kate Wright's lovely vocals guiding us through. The tone is wistful, cinematic, and intimate. Make some tea and curl up with your antique afghan. This is elegantly naive couch music. Movietone sound like no-one else and are innovative rather than eclectic, but fans of the tenderest side of Tindersticks, Pram, The Sea and Cake, Broadcast, The Pastels, and Le Mans should find some kindered spirits here. Movietone's previous (second) album, Day and Night, was one of my favorites of the 90s and this gets the new decade off to a great start. I pray these folks will play live in Seattle someday. This release is on the best label in the world, Domino, in England (check out their new Geographic imprint, too), and on the outstanding Drag City here in the States. Buy direct from the label or support your local independent record store." Dripping dreamy drops Andrew S. Toomajian | Montague, MA | 12/03/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "'the blossom filled streets' is an understated masterpiece. it shuffles and floats dreamily into your consciousness, and yet never fails to be compelling. can be listened to as a seamless whole or song by song. one of my favorite albums ever.buy it - but hey, support your local independent record shop or order directly from the label." Crushingly beautiful music P. MCGREGOR III | Baltimore, MD | 10/01/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "Their "first" album - Day and Night - was amazing, beautiful, haunting, melancholy, and almost perfect. This record is amazing, beautiful, haunting, melancholy, and PERFECT. This is grown-up rock music, not adolescent, pretentious, self-loathing shoe-gazing pap. It is adult, intelligent, and artful music. Recommended."
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