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Last Post 8/3/2006 7:30 AM by  Scales
Guillemots: the new Blue Nile ????
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8/3/2006 7:30 AM
    Suddenly here they are! Guillemots - so great, you really doubt your ears while listening to their debut album. Every song on this record is at least very good, most of it splendid! They seem to make that original, incredible music as if they have come to us from another world. 01 little bear - orchestra, Fyfe's voice full of emotions, could be from an epic soundtrack, it's that grand 02 made-up love song #43 - unique, full of energy, this is the spirit of the summer 03 trains to brazil - a hymn with cult status 04 redwings - amazing, haunting, complex...thank you Guillemots especially for this 05 samba through the snowy rain - wonderful introduction to "through the windowpane" 06 through the windowpane - wahoo, what a spirit...congratulations guys, this ist just so so amazing 07 if the world ends - sad, aching with lyrics like "that if the world ends, i hope you're here with me i think we could laugh just enough to not die in pain" 08 we're here - unbelieveable song, right when you think now there has to be a weaker title, there comes a classic gorgeous hymn 09 blue would still be blue - almost acapella, pure melancholy, fair and beautiful 10 annie let's not wait - fast, inflaming, beach flair 11 and if all - short but still beautiful, what a transition to "sao paulo" 12 sao paulo - you get the feeling like they make music for dear life, it's like they try to put everything in this song, they couldn't tell us in the ones before...it's epic! Guillemots's "through the windowpane - 10/10 - grand !!!
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    8/3/2006 11:26 AM
    yup. caught them at Oxegen and they were really good as well - excellent vocals. track 2 is one of my favourite songs this year.
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    8/3/2006 12:21 PM
    your so right fnatastic
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    9/5/2006 1:50 AM
    just, I love this band with all my heart
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    9/17/2006 8:20 PM
    i do quite love them and their bassist is quite hot
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    9/21/2006 3:47 PM
    Great album NOT amazing but better then most of the s**te thats falling out of england at the momment ,Little Bear is great .
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    9/30/2006 12:50 AM
    I saw them in Whelan's not long ago and thought they were dreadful - Admittedly, I wasn't hugely familiar with their stuff at that stage, but their "madcappery" irritated me no end. Put that drill away, boy! Agree that the new album is (mostly) great and looking forward to seeing them again shortly. The second half of Sao Paulo is marvellous in an everything but the kitchen sink kind of way. I don't hear The Blue Nile similarities AT ALL though. Great as they are, The Blue Nile kick their ass.
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    9/30/2006 1:03 AM
    Listening to them now - Youjustgottalove "Breathe me away, breathe me back home I can love you baby 'til the cows came home - What's that noise? – Yeah it's the cows knocking on our door" Hmm? Hmm? I think so.
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