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- Summary: The experimental indie-rockers led by Jamie Stewart return with album number four.
- Record Label: 5 Rue Christine
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 21
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Mixed: 0 out of 21
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Negative: 1 out of 21
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These are songs about horrible times in horrible lives; hearts are rotten long before they break and the sounds they make are awful and haunting and beautiful.
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La Forêt has the sort of courage-minus-contrivance that is exceedingly (and ironically) rare in music of its dramatic and thematic ilk.
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MagnetLa Foret sounds like what rock might've become if all the British Invasion bands had hailed from postwar Berlin. [#69, p.112]
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Easy listening this amn’t, but if you want a rollercoaster ride into deep recessions and to be thrilled by the sounds that surround you, then this could be the perfect album for you.
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In the best possible way, the album is a painful listening experience, forcing the listener into immediate and excruciating catharsis: you look into the eyes of a cold stranger, and see nothing but ugliness and painful regret.
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While these experiments don't always quite work, at the very least the group isn't falling into a rut.
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Unfortunately, the mere manufacture of unique sounds isn’t enough to rescue them on La Forêt.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 9
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Mixed: 0 out of 9
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Negative: 3 out of 9
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DonaldHJul 12, 2005
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markhSep 3, 2005good work xiu xiu. brave + original.
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Aug 6, 2014
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AramisGJul 14, 2005
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benjikSep 13, 2005scary and beautiful at the same time... "muppet face" is possibly one of the best songs ever written
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MattOct 25, 2005
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AlexEiffelSep 13, 2005Xiu Xiu is contrived shit. Listening to this kind of music will not make you a more intelligent person.
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