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Simple Shelter
A Phoenix From the Ashes
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Introduction
2. System Error
3. A Happy Ending (With Menace)
4. Add My Tears
5. Through the Fires (With Peter Distefano)
6. Gift
7. A Floor to Dance On
8. Power (performed by Peter Distefano)
9. In Place of You
10. Godspeed
11. The Enemy Upon Us
12. Common Thread
13. 5 A.M.

CD Details

All Artists: Simple Shelter
Title: A Phoenix From the Ashes
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Cold Fusion Music
Original Release Date: 11/5/2004
Release Date: 11/5/2004
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock
Style: Electronica
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 061297336470

Synopsis

Album Description

From the ashes of burnt-to-the-ground anguish spawns newly found sincerity of Simple Shelter's debut album A Phoenix From the Ashes. A musical pictorial that embarks light, darkness, and the unknowing worlds within the mind of Joshua Bradford. With every track on the CD, listeners journey with the artist through avenues of hardships and emotional distress while touching down upon optimistic endings. "Embrace the idea of watching your house burn down along with all of your possessions in a moment of complete loss while turning around and walking into the desert. It's he light that derives from complete loss of which I create this album." Each song on the album embraces a unique musical genre along Joshua's dynamic vocal range and singing diversity; some tracks are all electronics while others are only guitar. All songs written and performed by Joshua Bradford plus a few featured artists.

CD Reviews

This is in my top 20 all time favorite cd's!

James Allin | 11/17/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"So you see I gave this cd a 5 star rating and also say that I place Simple Shelter in my top 20 of all time favorite cds. I bet you expect that I'm now going to rave and rave about how great this cd is, but I won't (too much). This cd will appeal to many people and the best way to describe it (for me anyway) is to take modern Industrial Rock, Enya (for the surreal effect), Goth, and blend it up with moments of Anguish, Despair, Beauty and hope, then make it sound like no one else's cd and here you have Simple Shelter.

Many people give out 5 star reviews here on Amazon, but..... Yes, there has to be a "but" here... Simple Shelter is TRULY deserving of a 5 star review and is a band that will be cherished long after the Alternative Rock scene has changed completely to something else, and the Britney Spears of this world are retired with 4 kids and several new husbands. This is one of those few bands that holds up to the greatness of groups like Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, and Rush, (although Simple Shelter doesn't sound like these bands). Simple Shelter deserves to be hailed as a classic among those other great bands though. It's very moving unique artistic music. It takes a little time to grow on you (which for me is usually a mark of greatness) and quite simply one of THE best bands. Period."