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The Airborne Toxic Event
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Product Description
Garnering comparisons to everyone from Modest Mouse and The Arcade Fire to the Clash and U2, The Airborne Toxic Event's debut album is one of the most celebrated releases of the last year. Hailed by press and fans alike, their now legendary live shows have been converting fans from coast to coast. Features the hit single 'Sometime Around Midnight' and 'Gasoline'. On tour nationwide this Spring.
Track Listing
- Wishing Well
- Papillon
- Gasoline
- Happiness Is Overrated
- Does This Mean You're Moving On?
- This Is Nowhere
- Sometime Around Midnight
- Something New
- Missy
- Innocence
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #21393 in Music
- Released on: 2008-08-05
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
Blender August 2008
"Inebriated celebrations of love's boundless optimism."
Spin.com July 2008
"A tad grimy and wholly gimmick free, Los Angeles' the Airborne Toxic Event sport fuzzed out six-strings and danceable Franz Ferdinand-like grooves on their self-titled debut."
NME,November 2008
“The expanse and ambition of Arcade Fire and MGMT gets a hypodermic of The Clash’s wild, gnashing stem cells.”
Customer Reviews
To the core
Seeing an old girlfriend in a club with another guy when the wounds are still fresh. Seems pretty mundane and basic, heh? This band cuts so deep to the core with it's music and lyrics and the ability to deliver both on such a visceral level that in "Sometime Around Midnight" we are reminded just how devastating such a simple sounding event really is when you are feeling the pain and licking the wounds of broken love, broken dreams, lost moments. It is in fact like the end of the world--- an Airborne Toxic Event---- and the emotional integrity and purity that this band delivers along with Mikel Jollet's intense and gripping vocals and lyrics have the remarkable ability to take this "simple" event, put us right in the middle of it, and remind us of just how big it really is. Unpretentious and simple in its production, yet every song is a well crafted integral piece of this album's quiltwork. Absolutley incredible, and so refreshing to hear a full album of art and substance. Every song makes its mark with an emotional integrity I haven't heard from an artist in a while. And the best part is that it has a very unique place in the music milieu, so it gets even better with each listen. Great record...I pre-ordered the vinyl also!! It just feels like a classic!
Good music, f'in terrible recording
As title says, and other poster posted, the music is great, very passionate and moving, but the sound quality sucks!!! My wife who has great hearing says she likes the youtube version better (as compared to way too expensive hi-fi). That tells you something about the SQ.
I think the sound quality of the first 6 tracks ranks up there with Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks...(on CD) as among the worst 10 in my 2,500+ collection. Sounds like it was engineered for youtube played through laptop speakers. Don't believe me, take a look at the waveform with an audio editor.
Music like this is the reason why kids think mp3s sound as good as the CD... Well yeah they do if the CD was engineered this bad to begin with.
Going back to the content. Hard to say anything bad. Just a great rock group with heart and ability to play. Drummer spanks. Violinist isn't a gimmick but offers true depth and emotion to music.
Darn near perfect album
If there is a better rock release in the last ten years, I want to know about it (maybe Green Day's last, but you can't compare these two). Ever since I heard Sometime Around Midnight on XM, I've been anxiously awaiting the release of their first full length LP, and it's now here. And it's brilliant. Every song holds its own, and elicits a different emotion. I have listened to it about 10 times since buying it (two days ago) and can't wait to get back in the car so I can put it on again.
Best overall songs: "Sometime Around Midnight" and "Innocence"
These two songs are sung with so much passion and emotion that you can't help but get sucked into their world.
Although I love every song on the disc, I want to make special mention of two more: "Missy" and "Gasoline." Wow. Missy tells this great story and speeds it up and slows it down when the story of the song calls for it, and it flat out works. By the time he starts belting out the lyrics behind the driving guitar and banging drums, toward the end of the song, I've got my car up to about 90 and I'm loving life!
I don't review music often, but I had to come on and make sure I helped contribute to the success of this album, as little help as this may be. It's really a brilliant, wonderful accomplishment.
