Awesome Remixes!
aurorachica | USA | 02/21/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"When I bought this I really loved it.
I learned to love "Fall Awake" most of all the remixes of it.
I also enjoyed how they placed a song by another band and 2 other remixes The Echoing Green helped with at the end - It made me get interested in that band a little more as well.
Overall, it's a nice CD for Echoing Green fans and people who really enjoy remixes of songs. It's also great a cd for Techno fans."
Killer original songs; decent remixes
aurorachica | 08/19/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"As would be expected from the first follow-on to The Echoing Green's album Music From The Ocean Picture, "Fall Awake" has the poetic lyrics of "Goodbye" (one of the best tracks on MFTOP), but with a powerful vibe that is at turns melancholy, defiant and triumphant. Lyrically, I honestly think it might take top honors for any EG song ever. It's so melancholy in the verses, painting a picture of someone who is loved and cared about slipping away, and in that sense it reminds me a little of "She's Gone Tragic" (another MFTOP hit). But where "SGT" stays dark, and without a lot of hope - there's a "glimmer" at the end, but only just that - "Fall Awake" says "I care too much about you to let this happen. I'm going to fight this, I'm going to do whatever it takes. You have to make a choice, but if you're willing, I'm right there beside you." The depth of the commitment is plain - even though the recurring theme is that it's almost certainly a lost cause, that doesn't matter. For that reason, it's a super, super powerful song to me. Musically, "Fall Awake" takes the layering, building progression that is the strongest feature of "Supernova" and gives it a bite that stops just short of "Liberation" while staying clear of the traditional synthpop sound - which is a good thing. The dominance of the electronic sound is clear throughout but the chorus adds some distorted crunch as counterpoint - yet from the first pulsing beat to the ethereal harmonic line to the grinding layers of the chorus, it all works amazingly well and alternately makes me close my eyes as I'm overwhelmed with emotion, and then pump my fist at the ceiling in determination. In short, buy this for "Fall Awake", the excellent version of "Little Drummer Boy" and the bonus Leiahdorus track "Jupiter". I knock off one star for some dubious remixes of all of the above tracks, but a couple of them are quite good and the original versions make it absolutely worth the price."
Track Listings (11) - Disc #1