Geneva

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Geneva GENEVA is a linear, ruthlessly gorgeous album. There's barely a breath between tracks, but there's a rhyme and reason to it's every nuance no tangent is allowed to branch off without careful analysis of where it may lead... The band is never uncertain or ambivalent about their next move. Review Back in the dim days of the mid- to late-90s, it was common enough practice for naysayers of the then nascent post-rock genre (generally agreed to be the worst genre name ever, but nobodys really thought of anything better) to bemoan the amount of time the tunes spent being pretty before arriving at the thunderous crescendos. As these tended to be everybodys favourite bits, the question was often asked: why wasnt it possible for bands to make wholly loud records The actual answer to that question is rather complicated, though would probably end by pointing to the absurd 65daysofstatic, the Sheffield group who have of late morphed into a sort of post-rock boyband. But you could also take Chicagos Russian Circles as a more sophisticated case in point. The trio have actually made a pretty decent fist of putting volume first on their previous records, combining a clean, riffs-up-front approach with a grasp of dynamics that kept the quiet stuff to a minimum without rendering the music lumbering or unsubtle. Nonetheless, there was always a note of military efficiency to them, a coldness in their heart. While still loud enough to wake up a fair-sized neighbourhood, Geneva brings in strings, horns and just a little more calm and with all that comes far and away Russian Circles most genuinely affecting record. Its still tougher than the last few Mogwai albums combined, commencing with the nerve-jangling urgency of Fathomall heart-attack bass and sobbing feedbackand following with the barely suppressed violence of the title tracks tightly wound guitar figure. But then the songs begin to get longer, warmer and more expansive, and as they do the new instruments work their way to the heart of the music. Though the extra players are generally used sparinglythe haunted brass that sporadically pierces When the Mountain Comes to Mohammed the sonorous breakdown on Meleethey allow the band to push on into quite different sonic pastures for the climactic Philos. A blissful ten-minute pulse and flow, the auxiliary musicians rise and dissipate in stately waves as the band rattle below, efficiency traded for something suspiciously close to euphoria. --Andrzej Lukowski This link will take you offin a new window Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. If you are unhappy with the transaction for any reason, please contact us first to resolve. If you do leave negative or neutral feedback you waive your rights for support regarding any problems with us and open yourself up for possible retaliatory negative feedback. Please avoid making negative feedback remarks, contact us first if you have any problems! We are here to help! Contact Us Please contact us via eBay messages if you have any questions and our Customer Service team will be happy to assist you with any queries. Thank you. Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Copyright © 2017 The Pom Shop. All rights reserved.

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