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Lightbulbs: Special Edition | 
| Artist: Fujiya & Miyagi
Label: Full Time Hobby
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
Buy New: £8.78
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 13491
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5060100664842
ASIN: B001CIPTQY
Release Date: September 1, 2008
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Knickerbocker | | • | UH | | • | Pickpocket | | • | Goosebumps | | • | Rook To Queen's Pawn Six | | • | Sore Thumb | | • | Dishwasher | | • | Pterodactyls | | • | Pussyfooting | | • | Lightbulbs | | • | Hundreds And Thousands |
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| Customer Reviews:
There is a light that never goes out . October 15, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
On first listen I didn't get Lightbulbs. How one dimensional and resolutely dull I thought as it ( I perceived at the time) droned out of the speakers. Yet , not for the first time , I must point out that only a complete dunce writes off an album on the first listen so I gave Lightbulbs another chance .....then another and you know what? Suddenly that little light popped on over my head. Ohhh the irony .
It makes much more sense now this album . Its a subtle blend of electronic pop , watered down Krautrock and low key techno with deadpan vocals courtesy of David Best. The duo sound exotic and foreign , Japanese maybe ?, but are in fact from Brighton .Indeed they aren't even a duo but a four piece. Nothing it seems is quite what it seems with this band. Except the songs that is .A couple are great, most are seductively fine , one or two are rather dull no matter how many times you listen to them.
Opening track "Knickerbocker " is a hugely enjoyable locked groove of a song sprinkled with non-sequiturs about Lena Zavaroni and ice cream. Talking of ice cream final track "Hundreds And Thousands" is a motorick delight with spangled keyboards .It's like Stereolab covering Jean Michel Jarre except better than that sounds ....or maybe worse- you take your pick depending on how you feel about both of those.
"Uh " is a rather witty little number with the syncopation between the word and the deep bottomed bass cleverly done .Unfortunately they then repeat this trick with" Pickpocket" which on it's own merits is okay but straight after "UH" pales in comparison. ."Goosebumps " though is a more elegiac number with lovely layers of glowing keyboards - like Leonard Cohen mixed with Tangerine Dream. "Sore Thumb" has a nicely undulated bass line and some neat keyboard sequences but not much else and "Rook To Queens Pawn Six" is about as interesting as a game of chess. "Dishwasher" is lithe approximation of what Shriekback would sound like if they ,d been as sleazy as Prince ."Pterodactyls " should be extinct with it's prissy little keyboards but "Pussyfooting " while repetitive as least has the nous to recycle a good idea/tune. The title track is an almost bluesy ballad with shivery chords and is both sinister and seductive.
Light bulbs doesn't really engage the listener on any great emotional level and also lacks the true allure and joy of great pop but somehow it wiggles its way into the affections, It's doubtful you will fall head over heels for this album but then it's unlikely you'll be chucking it in the next charity bag either. It'll be there for you when you need it. Which in all honesty won't be often but when you do it will provide understated enchantment. And failing that it's classy cover will look terrific on the shelves.
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