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- Summary: The 12-track release from German musician Blixa Bargeld and Italian composer Teho Teardo took nearly two years, with recording done in Berlin and Rome.
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- Record Label: Spècula
- Genre(s): Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Jul 26, 2013Blixa Bargeld's collaboration with Italian composer Teho Teardo finds him in fine fettle on a group of typically sardonic songs set to unusual string and electronic arrangements performed with The Balanescu Quartet.
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The WireDec 10, 2013Hardly the stuff of revolution, Still Smiling nevertheless feels comfortable in all of its swollen riches. [Oct 2013, p.54]
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Jul 26, 2013The result is a bizarre, dark album that slowly builds and improves with extending listening.
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Jul 26, 2013Their styles complement one another to produce a powerful combination on this album that captivates from start to finish.
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MojoJul 29, 2013Teardo's pizzicato arrangements lend Bargeld's melodic sprechgesang monologues a profoundly sinister undertow. [Aug 2013, p.90]
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UncutJul 26, 2013[Blixa Bargeld is] in a whimsical mood, Mae West-flirtatious on "Come Up And See Me" and the booming "I'm smiling/From the bottom of my fair-trade soul" on the title track. Meanwhile, a delicate cover of The Tiger Lillies' "Alone With the Moon" is dispatched with a rich sonority. [Aug 2013, p.77]
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Q MagazineJul 26, 2013At times it verges on beautiful classical pop. At others, it's like listening to a taxing piece of modernist musical theatre. [Aug 2013, p.105]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Feb 10, 2016
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