The Autumns-Fake Noise From A Box Of Toys-CD-FLAC-2007-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | The Autumns
     Title   | Fake Noise From A Box Of Toys
     Genre   | Indie                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 43:19
     Label   | Bella Union                          Store   | 2007
     Catalog | BELLACD 147                          Rip     | 2020
     Bitrate | 926 kbps                             Size    | 301.92 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers   0:50
     02. Boys                                                        2:44
     03. Clem                                                        3:43
     04. The Midnight Knock                                          2:19
     05. Killer In Drag                                              4:54
     06. Night Music                                                 4:46
     07. Only Young                                                  3:39
     08. Glass Jaw                                                   3:01
     09. Uncle Slim                                                  4:18
     10. The Beautiful Boot                                          2:31
     11. Adelaide                                                    4:27
     12. Oh My Heart                                                 6:07
 Notes  
     The Autumns were an ethereal and emotive dream pop group who sometimes wore
     their influences on their sleeves. However, the fact that they won the
     admiration of some of their heroes proves that they were no imitation act
     bent on replicating their precursors. The Los Angeles band - Eric Crissman,
     Frank Koroshec, Matthew Kelly, and Jon Santana - came together in the four
     members' senior year of high school in 1992. Through frequent gigging in
     their area, numerous labels became interested, some of them with large
     budgets.
     Always putting creative control above everything else, the band opted to
     sign with the independent Risk, a label run by former Concrete Blonde and
     INXS manager Frank Volpe. The "Suicide At Strell Park" EP was released in
     1997, with full-length "The Angel Pool" following later in the year.
     "Winter In A Silver Box", a four-song EP that featured two remixes, saw
     issue in 1999. The Autumns hooked up with Cocteau Twins bassist Simon
     Raymonde (a major influence), who produced 2000's "In The Russet Gold Of
     This Vain Hour". "The Autumns Present Le Carillon", a four-song EP, was
     released a year later.
     The Autumns have been around since the early '90s, but due to label
     failures and the other frustrations of indie life, their release schedule
     has been so sporadic that every album feels like a surprise comeback. This
     is particularly the case with their fourth full-length, "Fake Noise From A
     Box Of Toys", which is a fairly radical change from their earlier work.
     Previous albums like "In The Russet Gold Of This Vain Hour" were full of
     shimmering, slowly unfolding dream pop soundscapes directly influenced by
     the likes of My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins, whose Simon
     Raymonde signed the Los Angeles band to his Bella Union label some time
     back.
     There are intermittent flashes of that sound on "Fake Noise From A Box Of
     Toys" (notably on 'The Midnight Knock' and 'The Beautiful Boot'), but this
     is a far more immediate album overall. Points of comparison this time
     aren't the wall-of-effects-pedals wash that Robin Guthrie or Kevin Shields
     specialized in, but the self-consciously epic likes of Simple Minds, U2,
     Radiohead, or even Coldplay: singer Matthew Kelly tends to favor the
     highest end of his range  la Chris Martin or Thom Yorke.
     Anthemic singalong choruses, catchy guitar riffs, and layered harmonies -
     things The Autumns never had much truck with on their earlier albums - are
     the focus of songs like "Boys", "Glass Jaw" and "Clem," any of which could
     conceivably be mainstream alt-rock radio hits. That may sound like the
     Autumns have abandoned themselves to the wider pop marketplace, but what's
     most impressive about "Fake Noise From A Box Of Toys" is that the group
     maintains enough of their own musical personality on songs like the
     swirling closer "Oh My Heart" and the dramatic high point "Killer In Drag"
     that the more accessible songs sound like evolution, not sellout.

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