Julian Fane - Our New Quarters

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3...according to our Phil on Thu 08 Mar, 2007.

When that 1st JULIAN FANE album came out I was well impressed. I thought he was amazing and he's gonna be massive. A couple of years later his new CD called Our New Quarters is released on Planet Mu and now I think he's a whining get. What's changed? Well very little to be honest. But for some reason this really grates on me now. The opening track sounds like a manic depressive singing God Save The Queen which is just plain odd. He seems to whine in a sort of sub Thom Yorke misery style super whinge which makes me want to hurl things absolutely everywhere. Musically it's excellent. Somewhere between Sigur Ros and the entirity of Kid A. The track New Faces sounds exactly like it was written after an extremely enjoyable listen to Kid A.... mmmm I can do that!!
It's not bad at all. It's extremely competent and as I said the music is excellent. BUT he needs to sort his voice out and the music is way too derivative. Also (if what I said isn't enough) I get the feeling this doesn't really fit in with what Planet Mu do anymore so I kind of think he's on the wrong label and he'd do much better on a different label. Maybe Radiohead's label perhaps??

*Vancouver based Julian Fane's second album, "Our New Quarters" is the
follow-up to 2004's acclaimed "Special Forces" and sees far more emphasis
on vocal songs than its predecessor.
*Fane's new pieces are grounded in live percussion, great swathes of strings,
indecipherable high-pitched vocals and lush sweeping synth effects which
form their emotional core.
*The Moon Is Gone, for instance, wallows deliciously in vast guitar-laden
melancholy and achieves a pristine beauty almost classical in tone.

*Tracklist:01 OUR NEW QUARTERS 02 NEW FACES 03 YOUTH CADET 04 THE MOON IS GONE
05 DOWNFALL 06 JONAH THE FREAK 07 BREAK AND ENTER 08 RATTLE 09 AMONG THE
MISSING 10 PLASTICS FOR A HEART

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