Phase 3

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Total Tracks: 15   Total Length: 34:54

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"Holy Grail" for listeners...

hellothere

WHATEVER you may be looking for in an album - pop tunes, scratchy lo-fi runs, or just plain coherence of thought - you will find it here on Phase 3. TRUST ME, you will not regret this download! Songs like "Milk" take your breath away with it's utter pop perfection, "New Jam Shoes" should have a place at the indie table next to Pavement, Wedding Present and Superchunk, and "Wing off a Plane" will cause you to suffer lapses in productivity - you will be humming it constantly!!! Give them a chance, and Beatnik Filmstars will win you over.

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The Beatnik Filmstars’ unflinchingly noisy presentation of unflinchingly poppy songs provides some of the more joyously buzzy moments in nineties rock, and Phase 3 is no different; if anything, the record packs in a few more hooks than the releases surrounding it. The Filmstars’ deconstructive breakdown seems a bit more pronounced, as well — the album bashes through recklessly melodic rock, laden with the same tape hiss and overloaded consoles of all Filmstars releases (save, perhaps, Boss Disque), then falls apart completely into unformed scratchiness, and the end result is an accessibly fractured exploration of the two extremes in the band’s work. – Nitsuh Abebe

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