Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Appliance Title: Imperial Metric Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Mute U.S. Release Date: 7/17/2001 Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Experimental Music Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 724596915721, 5016025611898, 724381053515 |
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 | Appliance Imperial Metric Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock
Recorded and produced over the last twelve months in their own studio, their sound has moved on from the motoric linearity of their 1999 debut long player Manual and last year's warm aquatic mini album Six Modular piece... more » |
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Album Description Recorded and produced over the last twelve months in their own studio, their sound has moved on from the motoric linearity of their 1999 debut long player Manual and last year's warm aquatic mini album Six Modular pieces. Embracing the results of their German remix project D4, (Pole, Kreidler, To Rococo Rot and Tarwater) Appliance have enhanced their sonic arsenal and yet still retained their unique sound of control and focused simplicity. Imperial Metric sees the band broadening their instrumentation to an even more electronic bias. Keyboards, samplers and drum machines rub shoulders with their original set up of guitar, bass and drums to great effect. This Mute Records release has 12 tracks and is packaged in a digipack. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsQuite original and inventive Garrett Holway | Tempe, AZ United States | 05/05/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Very few albums have impressed me as quickly and completely as Imperial Metric, the first Appliance work I ever heard and still my favorite. Hauntingly beautiful soundscapes with lusciously etherial intelligence- perfect for watching the cosmos or divining the mysteries of life. This work's sonic expanse will take you there." Menacing Hues WrtnWrd | Northridge, CA USA | 09/24/2001 (4 out of 5 stars) "Appliance's second full length release moves the Exeter trio into darker electronic territory, a shift in many ways mirrored in the CD title, Imperial Metric, and the global imperative of the song titles: "Land, Sea and Air", "Comrades (In a Moscow Hotel)", "Navigating the Nursery Slopes", and so on. The tone here is ominous; even the instrumentals are menacingly hued. Lyrically the feel is post-cold war intrigue, technology infiltrated by the messy sensuality of human emotion." Space Rockers... DJ Rez | St PaulSt Paul | 08/18/2001 (4 out of 5 stars) "I heard this playing at my local record store and picked it up then and there.This is a rock record that features some major electronic touches...most of the beats are electronically driven,and there are lots of keyboards...I hear a little bit of Spiritualized,some Charlatans,maybe some Echo & the Bunnymen...definitely inspired by prog-rock.Alot of the tracks have vocals,but there are a few excellent instrumentals on here too.It's not all spacy slow jams either...there a a couple of great driving songs.In fact I reckon this would be an awesome roadtrip record...test drive it yourself!"
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