Enemy Chorus - The Earlies
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the second LP for the ever-growing prog-rock collective that calls both England and Texas home.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 23
  2. Negative: 2 out of 23
  1. A great lost album in the making.
  2. Where the songs were once floaty-light, 'The Enemy Chorus' is anchored in electronic menace and murky krautrock undercurrents that make it throb as much as shimmer. [20 Jan 2007, p.31]
  3. While The Enemy Chorus may not launch itself into the night sky and explode like the great big sonic firework it wants be, there are enough bangs on display here to warrant taking it out for the occasional stroll.
  4. The CD is bound to attract some fans for its unwavering dedication to psychedelic textures, not to mention the number of bodies involved in the logistics of their live show, but this is energy that should have been expended in searching for better sheet music.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. IvanG
    10
    an amazing album, like love at first sight!!
  2. KevinJ
    10
    Massively underrated. The album flows effortlessly from dark yet catchy epics to quiet, soft tunes. The songwriting is top-notch. A beautiful reinvention results in what is easily my best album of 07 for now, although it'll be hard to top this. Expand
  3. bobc
    9
    if I had just landed and wanted to know wot popular music was all about - this is one of the albums to which i would listen. an americano/anglo combo - more anglo, methinks, than americano, however it is an original piece of work - and like all really good albums, it is evolutionary, celebrating the past -welcoming the future. An electic mix of sounds - tracing, acknowledging, interpreting, contemporary music since the summer of love. Now there is a thin line between the eclectic and a dog's dinner - and this album falls on the right side. For some reason it has me digging out their previous work - and reaching for my beta band, gomez and i am kloot favs - some unknown reason. It's an album that's standing on the shoulders of giants. albiet short ones. Expand
  4. EricC
    9
    As the split reviews have shown, either you like the kitchen-sink, more-is-more approach of the Earlies, or you don't. I like it, thus I like this album. It's very dark, claustrophobic, and dense, but worth the effort you put into it. Whereas I'd recommend their first album to everyone, this one is more for the people who already dig this type of music. Plus they really pull it off live, which is also very cool for a band this huge with songs this overwhelming. Expand

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