Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light Image
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Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the long-in-the-making debut album for the instrumental Montreal band that shares two members (Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry) with the Arcade Fire.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. [Bell Orchestre] varies its cunningly sequenced, gratifyingly brief instrumental tracks with such old-fashioned amenities as textured melodies, pleasing dynamic shifts, and passages that, if they don't actually r-o-c-k, at least bound down the road in an excited manner.
  2. While it drifts away from the listener somewhat during its middle section, Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light is, for the most part, a captivating listen.
  3. Recording's musical vignettes display equal parts languor and incitement. [#11, p.105]
  4. At its best, Recording a Tape still sounds like little more than the product of a few precocious marching-band dropouts, an empty warehouse, and good intentions.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. kurtt
    9
    I personally find it quite refreshing and I love how the album has a whispy unity that works as a whole. It really has grown on me!!!
  2. davem
    8
    Solid album, see them live, it's fantastic.
  3. ldavidson
    7
    Good but a little boring in spots.
  4. coolerstillr.muckfluck
    4
    yeah...not quite. no.

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