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Club 8 is Great

_ | Atlanta, GA USA | 05/25/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Awww Yeah!...I came across this band's cd while I was working at my college's radio station.This band makes some wonderful pop music,staying away from the glam and over-produced sounds of today's "top" pop culture acts.More importantly,as I have said twice now,this group is a band and not some choreographed fluff,so you can really hear the musicianship and songwriting depth contained in Friend I Once Had.For starters,the vocalist,Karolina Komstedt,has a wonderful voice.Second,I absolutely love the band duo's quaint range of emotional lyricism.They really do create some beautiful songs.'Spending Sundays in your apartment / is like a holy day for me,' Karolina sings on "Holiday"-- a song flooded with imagery of trying to combat loneliness while only really having one person to sort of turn to for company,which becomes the brief period for a languid holiday,before the coming anxieties of the week,take their toll again.On "The End of The Affair," Karolina bluntly acknowledges a break-up,singing 'I found / I can replace you / yes I found / your just a habit that I can get rid of.' What a way to phrase the end of a relationship!"Better Days" is beautifully done,with just a backing acoustic guitar,a snyth-keyboard,and of course,Karolina's longing vocal inflections.The soft acoustic aura of this song is so compelling because it emotionally moves you.When Karolina sings,'You think I just need someone / but I need you / just a moment every day / and I can't see it changing', my heart beats along in agreement."Missing You" is a slightly up-tempo dance song,probably somewhat encapsulating the sound of the current Sweeden dance/club scene.Club 8 is not afraid of experimenting a little,and that proves to be very beneficial to the listener.And there are many..many..many other cool pop songs on this album.This is one of the best albums of all-time.At least,that is how I feel about it,even though it has gotten an "underground-inde" type of treatment and not too many people have become familiar with the band.You must buy this album,and then go put it on for your friends and see them get the same chills and smiles that you got,when you heard Club 8's album for the first time!This album is also a great mood setter OR...lol....mood relaxer (you'll see what I mean,after you finish listening through it).I'll sometimes listen to it in the evenings and just lay back and zone out. Come to think of it,I do that with a lot of my records,tapes,and cds!! :-)"

Out There

Donard Dwyer | 10/11/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A wonderful mishmash of sounds. Bizarre Walter Pidgeon voice overs float in and out of dense electronica. Vincent Price reads from some obscure and seemingly incoherent script as melodies and synthesized weirdness pour out of the background. Here, Disco is fused with trance and then becomes something very unique and alluring. There are touches of Eno and Byrnes collaboration of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts album, which by the way was the first to incorporate the truly "found sounds" concept of song structure. This work was of it's time in the art world back in the late seventies, as this music is to the CPU driven 3D creationists of the 00's. It's altered reality from the first track to the last, but don't be afraid, it's safe, it's cozy and it's way cool."

Music like music was meant

pjtmh | The Netherlands | 11/10/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Not many bands or music collaborations make it to my ear and stay there but Pepe Deluxe just has the sound for it.The Finnish group makes such a beautiful and special sound performance and the sound is just screaming to be put in a movie.This is one of the best CDs you can have in your life, it's timeless and you'll never get bored.By the way, also check out the aussie formation Avalanches, their sound is also extraordinary good."