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- Date Released: October 13, 2008
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Mute Song International / Zebralution
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Continuing to explore the generally subtler side of their music in a new century, Alison and Jim Shaw extend their increasing interest in electronic music on 2008's self-titled effort, as was readily heard on Particles & Waves, into an even more refined approach. Keyboards are ultimately the lead instrument throughout much of the album, which in combination with Jim's drumming still holding a sense of restrained, looming power, and Alison's familiar vocals now sweeter than they have yet been, create something close to a new Cranes sound altogether. It's certainly no radical reinvention -- piano has been a lead instrument for Cranes as far back as "Tomorrow's Tears" in 1991 -- but as a steady evolution, hearing the near-Beach Boys haze and swirl of the arrangement on "Worlds" and the sense of hidden depths on "Collecting Stones," it's a quite striking blend of past and present. It's not that guitars have completely disappeared, certainly, but often they are presented as extra shading or a sudden alteration of a performance. "Wonderful Things" is perhaps the most classically Cranes song in the older vein, but in a calmer mode, the guitars providing rhythm more than anything else. Elsewhere, "Feathers" is almost a post-punk tribute of sorts, thanks not only to the guitar but the very New Order-like bass, while "Move Along" is another standout on a fine album.
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| 01. |  |
Diorama
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1:32 |
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| 02. | |
Worlds
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4:08 |
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| 03. | |
Feathers
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3:18 |
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| 04. | |
Wires
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3:42 |
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| 05. | |
Panorama
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3:20 |
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| 06. | |
Wonderful Things
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4:17 |
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| 07. | |
Collecting Stones
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3:13 |
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| 08. | |
Invisible
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4:05 |
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| 09. | |
Move Along
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3:54 |
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| 10. | |
Sleepwalking
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3:07 |
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| 11. | |
High And Low
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4:06 |
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11 Total Tracks, 38:42 Total Length
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