Since the mysterious and beautiful "La Maison de Mon Reve" surfaced in early 2004, CocoRosie have spent months traveling the world with the likes of Bright Eyes, TV On The Radio, Antony And The Johnsons, Devendra Banhart, ... more »and Blonde Redhead. Along the way, "Noah's Ark" took shape, where heart-offerings of friends, family, loved ones and lost ones surface gracefully, contributing depth to the narrative journey. "Noah's Ark" is the result of a rootless reality, a drifting consciousness across state lines, date lines, time lines...connected to the past, vague about the future. But the heart of these songs is always issued from a tender present.« less
Since the mysterious and beautiful "La Maison de Mon Reve" surfaced in early 2004, CocoRosie have spent months traveling the world with the likes of Bright Eyes, TV On The Radio, Antony And The Johnsons, Devendra Banhart, and Blonde Redhead. Along the way, "Noah's Ark" took shape, where heart-offerings of friends, family, loved ones and lost ones surface gracefully, contributing depth to the narrative journey. "Noah's Ark" is the result of a rootless reality, a drifting consciousness across state lines, date lines, time lines...connected to the past, vague about the future. But the heart of these songs is always issued from a tender present.
The angst and the pain of the world explained through delica
Amanda Mikalson | Pullman, WA, USA | 03/22/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Noah's Ark was delicately beautiful, simplistically intricate, lovely in form and sound, that is how I would describe CocoRosie's new album Noah's Ark. Each song deals with things that hit on various different emotional levels in such a way as if you are being innundated with rainbows, with each color telling you a different side to the story. This is an album that strikes a nerve, it hits your heart with it's soft tender little clings and clangs, and tiny voices, each of which hit convey to your heart a different and new emotion. CocoRosie have painted a beautiful landscape, that is at once pretty and fantastical yet beneath the surface shows the grit and grime of reality. A place where art has created perfect harmony between the oppositions."
Sacred, Meet Profane
S. Coulter | San Francisco, CA | 09/15/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
""Transcendent and beautiful as only that which contains real sorrow can be, this album shows off Sierra and Bianca Casady's highly original gifts for imagery and songwriting in darkly delicate urban shanties that really must be heard to be appreciated.""
Beautiful
Wesley Walton | salem, or United States | 10/08/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"i recently saw cocorosie open for antony and the johnsons after only hearing their first album (which i honestly wasn't too impressed with) and they blew me away. it was so cuddly-sad, like the feel i get from listening to mum, but more gritty, less ethereal. this album does a much better job of showcasing their live sound. "beautiful boys" makes me want to sob(!) if you liked the first album, you'll LOVE this one. it's beautiful, sad, rainy-day music for sure. see them live if you can. it's amazing."
Beautiful "Freak-Folk"
Music Lover | Rhode Island, USA | 02/17/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
""Noah's Ark" is remarkable, unique, spellbinding, scary, and beautiful all at the same time. It is the perfect soundtrack to play at a chilled-out coffee shop in Amsterdam. Elements of electronia, hip-hop, 30's style jazz, and folk are all here and will appeal to those who appreciate "outsider" music and odd instrumentation. The more you listen to this, the deeper you will fall into its wonderful spell."
Those Beautiful Girls
mmmtea | ON, Canada | 02/13/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The best thing to happen to me all year was this album. I honestly never even thought of music this way before: professionally amateur made music with effective randomized sounds (music box, opera singer, cats, car, barn animals, etc etc). This is the sisters' darkest album they have ever done covering controversial issues [arguably, even more so than Tori Amos]. Such songs include "K-hole" - a state of a wildly dissociated experience in which other worlds or dimensions that are difficult to describe with language are said to be perceived, all the while being completely unaware of one's individual identity or the outside world; my favourite, however is "Beautiful Boys" featuring Antony & The Johnsons - homosexual hate crime in a way of imprisonment/orphanage with references to the holy church, "A devil's child with dove wings". Basically, it's just one of those albums I cannot get tired of. There is an overwhelming amount of beauty and sorrow -a glorious concoction in this electronica trip hop folk. I have never been this wowed in my entire musical life, lyrically, musically, creatively, and engineer...ly. My #1 album of 2005 without a doubt."