The Decline Of British Sea Power
- British Sea Power
- Band Name: British Sea Power
- Record Label: Sanctuary / Rough Trade
- Release Date: Sep 9, 2003
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100An enchanting, rhapsodic album of uncommon depth.
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It's not all darkness: The Brighton, England-based quintet offers enough straight-ahead rockers to keep the CD from turning into dirge overkill. [Oct 2003, p.95]
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90We hear a lot of different sounds, but are never left in any doubt that they flow together with such fire and skill that you feel they could knock out a freeform jazz number and still sound like the same band.
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90This is an album of stadium sized melodies and exquisite songwriting, allied with almost too many ideas. [Jun 2003, p.110]
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90A riveting debut packed with ideas and invention. [Jul 2003, p.126]
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90British Sea Power's vision makes most independent rock seem callow and weak-minded. [Sep 2003, p. 119]
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With an unlikely rock blend of classicism and narrative, British Sea Power has composed a brilliant album that's nearly perfect. It's not exactly pop, but it might as well be.
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Given the potency of their debut, British Sea Power’s Decline can safely be interpreted as a marvelous exercise in self-deprecation.
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BSP are an odd bunch: out of place, out of time, and quite possibly out of their minds. But given time to explore the depths of this record, they're also often out of this world.
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BSP are in a league of their own -- a young band with an arsenal of ideas, the brains to pull them off and the guts to let them loose into the world. [#5, p.98]
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80Basically, it's the album they'd always promised us they'd make; consider 'The Decline...' British Sea Power's entrance pass to the ranks of the truly mighty.
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80Unabashed whimsy merges seamlessly with melodious garage rock. [Jul 2003, p.100]
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An intriguing debut. [Nov 2003, p.108]
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80British Sea Power's slightly camp, wholly menacing, startlingly audacious debut is unlike anything you'll hear this year.
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80As confusing as it is ultimately compelling. [#61, p.89]
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80British Sea Power have the talent and vision to be a truly inspirational new guitar band.
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77BSP's performance art antics and throwback posturing come with a distinct set of innovations and surprises, and The Decline of British Sea Power proves that BSP have the song-power to back up their bullshit.
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“British Sea Power’s Classic”? Not quite. Not yet. But we can see the high-tide mark.
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70While some of their songs deliver nothing more than noisy twaddle, British Sea Power are a formidable band when they choose to simply stop making sense.
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70The Decline of British Sea Power is a record you'll probably tell your friends about, but it won't make you into a fervent, foamy-mouthed convert -- at least, not unless you're in a suitably receptive mood and play the record at its optimum volume...which, in case you wondered, means as loud as possible.
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The diverse influences are still percolating, and any sense of cohesive absorption of earlier rock outfits' methods and styles never quite congeal into original expression.
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50The mish-mash of moods and modes leaves little from which to gather a theme.
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G10A truely astounding album.
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ahmose10This a great album. Great lyrics, melodies. A classic.
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