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| Artist: British Sea Power
Label: Rough Trade
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 142
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 883870030021
EAN: 0883870030021
ASIN: B000WHBTFG
Release Date: January 14, 2008
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| Tracks:
| » | All In It | | » | Lights Out For Darker Skies | | » | No Lucifer | | » | Waving Flags | | » | Canvey Island | | » | Down On The Ground | | » | Trip Out | | » | Great Skua | | » | Atom | | » | No Need To Cry | | » | Open The Door | | » | We Close Our Eyes |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Since forming in 2000, Brighton renegades British Sea Power have firmly stomped their own path. Whether dressing up as 1930s Boy Scouts on stage, walking through their audiences beating drums or exploring the peripheries of rock music (as on their first two albums 2003's The Decline Of British Sea Power and 2005's Open Season) they have honed a style that's all their own. Do You Like Rock Music? sees the band continue their uniquely exploratory approach. Enlisting producers Efrim Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and Graham Sutton (Jarvis Cocker), the band seem even more determined in their effort to create something adventurous. But despite these veteran helping hands and the towering, oppressive atmospheres that mark the introductory songs on the album--all pounding drums, bleak rockscapes and chanting choruses--this is a deceptively accessible record. Tunes like "Atom" and "Down on the Ground"--both heard last on the band's Krankenhaus EP)--are full of edgy BSP bombast; but Arcade Fire-esque opener "All in It," the shoegazery "Canvey Island," "Great Skua,"--and especially "Waving Flags"--are stadium-sized songs to wave your lighter around to. Then again, BSP playing it safe is still a much more convincing--not to mention entertaining--proposition than many of their conformist contemporaries. Rollickin' stuff. --Danny McKenna
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 Mercury Nominated.... finally July 25, 2008
After the travesty of missing out on a Mercury Music Prize nomination for their first album The Decline Of British Sea Power, the band have finally achieved what should have happened 5 years ago with their third album Do You Like Rock Music?
The album itself, whilst perhaps not quite on a par with 'The Decline...' is certainly worthy of the nomination - singles 'Waving Flags' and 'No Lucifer' should have gathered more attention sales-wise than they perhaps did (the former was Zane Lowe's 'hottest record in the world', whilst the latter was restricted to a 1000-only vinyl release), and 'Canvey Island' has been used fairly extensively whenever British Sea Power have had radio/television coverage.
Much has been made of the band's inspiration for their songs, and there is certainly no let-up in the wide ranging inspiration used for DYLRM?. H5N1, immigration, flooding, the apocalypse, Big Daddy (the wrestler) and the band's keen interest in wildlife, in particular birds, are all on display in the 50 minutes of DYLRM? These diverse subjects are handled with a very slight hand, meaning that the songs themselves often come across as cryptic rather than clichéd, and will leave the listener wanting to learn more about the incidents/influences contained within.
The album starts with the thud of bookender 'All In It', a choral blast of an opener that displays that after the relative calm of second album 'Open Season' BSP have turned the amps back up to LOUD. 'Lights Out For Darker Skies', 'No Lucifer' and 'Waving Flags' all continue this - DYLRM really is an album that needs to be played loud to be fully appreciated. After the immediacy and bluster of the opening four tracks comes 'Canvey Island', which breaks the momentum the first four tracks have built up, but it's certainly a grower. After 'Down On The Ground' from the Krankenhaus? EP, and 'A Trip Out', comes possibly the album's highlight 'The Great Skua' - a beautiful and relatively simple instrumental composition that is very effectively arranged - you csn sit back with your Darjeeling and imagine birds sweeping over the cliffs of area Portland. 'Atom', also from the Krankenhaus? EP (and nicking the riff from the Buzzcocks' 'Everybody's Happy Nowadays') roars and sirens into the album's two most sedate tracks 'No Need To Cry' and 'Open The Door' - the latter is touted by some of the fanbase as a third post-Mercury single. Unfortunately 'We Close Our Eyes', partner to the first track, closes the album with a relative whimper.
British Sea Power have forged their own way in the music industry for 7 years now, it's time to welcome them in to your musical perspective. A lot of the rough edges have been sanded and buffed between the first album and this point, and the band pull this off admirably.
It may be pretentious, it may be 'eccentric'. But it's also bloody brilliant, and unique.
Poets in their own light May 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Listening to this album was only my second listen to BSP other than hearing Waving Flags on the radio, as I had listened to an earlier single and not liked the sound of it. I downloaded this album immediatley (through the love of Waving Flags) and since late January have played it everynight of the week - at least once. I recently went on holiday to Crete and had no music for 1 week, I sang every song from the album all day, everyday. As soon as I got home, the album was on. This is special, without a doubt their best so far, and without a doubt best album of the year so far.
1st track "All in it" is a perfect opener, a brainwashing peace chant that annoys at first and tantalizes later. This leads onto the loudest track on the album, "lights out" which frees you from your trance, connning you into thinking you're listening to a different band. Although I'm sure it's about peace and global warming, this song is as angry and pungent as they come. "No Lucifer" also seems to be about global warming, whilst mainly being a trip into the past of the singer enjoying bike journeys to unknown terrotories. When I first heard "Waving Flags", I thought it was morrisseys new single, I then listened to the lyrics, which where even beyond Mozza's lyrical powers, again focusing on the peace state of mind, everybody get along. Track 5 is "Canvey Island" which seems to say the world is going to end(maybe another dig at global warming), is although irate, unbeleivably uplifting to the point you feel like shouting the chorus out at the top of your voice. "Down on the ground" is complete poetry, nuff said. "A trip out" again focuses on a global epademic, but again you feel so liberated by the music, it feels like the start of the world. The start of the world would be beautifully protrayed by "the big skua", which is an instrumental track, just bliss. "Atom" is the stand out track from the album, although some of it is about overpriced houses? This is as uplifting as your son being born. The last 3 songs are very nice, but aren't in the same league as the 1st 9.
I am going to see BSP live in October and have heard that their live shows are better than their recorded music, if so, then I'm in for the time of my life. If you haven't got this album yet, buy it, trust me, it's amazing.
Yes I do April 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The riffs come from the annuls of rock history but the slant that British Sea Power put on their music sounds fresh and exhilarating. The chorus for "Lights out for Darker Skies," engages you, the breakdown is elegant and poised. There is an anthemic quality to this record, the way the ghostly effects marry the tracks together. You get the lost in the all-encompassing whirl of, "Waving Flags." It dovetails nicely into the wonderful sprawl of Canvey Island." "A trip out," stands out for the pulsating drive of its chorus. It's typical of the album. British in it's sound and execution but not falling into the usual hackneyed stereotypes of most British acts
The Great Skua showcases this groups capacity for sensitivity without the need for words - a truly outstanding piece of music. "No need to cry" is beautifully understated, languid. The music on this record conjures up visions of endless seascapes and barren landscapes.
What excites me about this band is that they are getting better - there's the intelligence there to come up with something different each time. An absolutely essential purchase
 Decent Raw Rock April 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Intelligent literate rock from this Brighton outfit that seems to be sufficiently different from the mainstream to warrant further investigation.
I always measure the success of a true rock album by the feeling I'm left with as the final track comes to en end. A good album will leave you with a feeling that you have heard something worthwhile and want to listen again and that's the case with BSP's most powerful album to date.
Of course there are lows. BSP aren't sufficiently rounded to produce a faultless album. What they do is inherit a middle ground between the best Brit rock bands and the plethora of also rans.
The album opens with a the semi instrumental All In It which sounds like a southern Coral. It gives way to a series of solid rock offerings of which the pick is undoubtedly Waving Flags which I am reliably informed is their hymn of welcome to immigrants. It certainly has an anthemic feel to it and that's one of BSP's great attributes, their ability to fill a room and a song with sound. At times they remind me of that excellent Liverpudlian band Icicle Works and their lead singer Ian McNabb. Canvey Island is an interesting song. Overall this is a nicely rounded album
Life enhancing indeed April 4, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
British Sea Power have created a sprawling, anthemic masterpiece that welds together rock influences from every era and yet is distinctively their own. You can't help but play 'spot the likeness' through hints of The Jam, Morrissey, early Floyd, and ooh who does this remind me of... It's accessible enough on first hearing to draw in fans of Coldplay or Snow Patrol, but with enough depth, enough grit to grow in stature over repeated listens and crucially the band's indie credentials appeal to hipsters who wouldn't be seen dead with 'X&Y'. Their lyrical concerns - celebration of Eastern European immigrants; environmental apocalypse; light pollution - are hardly mainstream, pretentious even, but they are allied with big soaring choruses and epic driving riffs, resulting in crowd swaying, epic, festival headed populism.
In the gospel according to BSP, 'Rock' is "anything that's good, life enhancing. It's stuff that makes you forget about the little things in life". "It started off as a drunken game...""It seemed like a good idea at the time. I'm not so sure if it is now." Maybe, but you passed the test lads.
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