The Optimist LP
- Turin Brakes
- Band Name: Turin Brakes
- Record Label: Source/Astralwerks
- Release Date: May 1, 2001
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Here's music for the twilight hours - feverish, contemplative, nostalgic. It resonates with the force of a thousand passionate post-club conversations in darkened, smoke-filled rooms, of intense, doomed liaisons, of youthful arrogance undercut by fear and failure.
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90The Optimist LP is a treasure chest of sparkly baubles and rare gems, and from top to bottom it is precious and priceless.
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80Trendy, sure, but occasionally terrific.
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80After a first listen 'The Optimist LP' simply drifts over your head like yet another take on a well worn formula, but given a second chance reveals a glorious, often ornate sensibility that simply can't be ignored.
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Given the right melody... Turin Brakes make fragile, delicately understated music... But just as often, they're weighed down by draggy tunes and unintentionally amusing lyrics. [4 May 2001, p.69]
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Underlying The Optimist's base -- two complementary voices highlighted by beautifully executed acoustic guitar -- is Turin Brakes' bent existentialism, an expansive vision that adds a feeling of fatalism to many of these songs.
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60Fans of new British bands like Gomez or Minibar should find plenty to like.
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60Turin Brakes' music consists largely of the same kind of contemplative minor key laments that one might hope to hear from Elliott Smith...
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60A slightly awkward but ambitious beginning.
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GavR10This is a great acoustic album, which is only surpassed by it's follow up, ether song.
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ColmP.9