Death of the Neighbourhood | 
| Artist: Death Of The Neighbourhood
Label: Kitsune
Category: Music
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Sales Rank: 9181
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5050954170828
ASIN: B001G4JR6C
Release Date: November 10, 2008
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Disc 1
| • | Death Of The Neighbourhood | | • | Cokeholes | | • | Fuck The Radio (Whup Whup) | | • | Released Too Early | | • | Brainwacked | | • | Call Girl | | • | Bruised Brain | | • | I Am The Pophead | | • | Radio Gas | | • | Yellowhills | | • | Forgot To Take My Drugs | | • | I Love My TV | | • | Dumb Down | | • | Mud'ring Started Early | | • | God's Not Coming | | • | Relax Stupid | | • | Unwell But Happy |
Disc 2
| • | Town Of Half Finished Buildings | | • | Crucifix Surfboard | | • | Devil Heart America | | • | Petrified In The Hills Above The Cemetary | | • | Siberian Refrigerator | | • | Oil Tanker's Bell | | • | Trains Derails O Te Way To A Happy Place | | • | Blind Girl's Broken Music Box | | • | Lost Youth Part 2 | | • | Enough Tranquilizer For A Horse | | • | Piano Wire Surf | | • | Fake Gold Sunday | | • | Cool Breeeze On The Back Of The Neck | | • | Wish I'd Been Born A Baby | | • | Club Foot Harp Player |
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| Customer Reviews:
Deathoftheneighbourhood- S/T LP (6/10) October 13, 2008
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Stephen Jones is the man who once sung `You're Gorgeous,' a song recorded under his Baby Bird alias with the disjunctive lyrics, "You said I wasn't cheap. You paid me twenty pounds." And even though he's tended to shy away from that name in recent years he certainly hasn't dropped the contradictory nature that often defined it, as testified to by his new album under the new moniker, Death of the Neighbourhood.
A self-titled double album, `Death of the Neighbourhood' spans 32 tracks of hip-hop tinged indie-electronica, charting, amongst other things, social dislocation, unbridled drug use, cultural impoverishment, spoiled childhood, environmental degradation and suicide. But in amongst the ghouls and the gangbangers, the inane powder parties and the intractable personal problems, are sporadic islands of plaintive beauty, tragic in their silent and resigned longing. Tracks such as `Relax Stupid,' with its phantomlike glockenspiel refrain and mournful strings, `Siberian Refrigerator,' with its arresting juxtaposition of rhythmic grooves to panoramic synths, and `Town of Half Finished Buildings,' with its tired but happy guitar plucking, are all wonderfully well realised and evocative pieces of music that live up to ATIC's billing of Jones as `one of the most prolific and original songwriters this country has ever produced.'
The slight downfall of the album however, is that the listener has to wade through a lot of muck to reach these respites, especially during disc one. Because while songs like `Cokeholes' and `I am the Pophead' do well as art to the capture the often hollow senselessness of their subject matter, they feel far too underdeveloped and insubstantial to be in anyway engaging or affecting as music, and so some may meet with the temptation to skip through them. Another problem with `Death of the Neighbourhood', which also happens to be one of its strengths, is that its broad stylistic and emotional variation often undermines any sense of it having an overarching conceptual cohesion, so that the listener often faces impenetrably mysterious contrasts, such as that of the noirish hip-hop of `Yellowhill' with the self-medicated delusional lullaby of `Forgot to Take My Drugs.'
But perhaps that's the whole point: the death of the neighbourhood means that it can only be experienced in self-contained, broken fragments, as most of us are isolated in our own little worlds no longer touching and influencing those of others in consequential ways. Or maybe it's not. (Simon Chandler)
For fans of: Daedelus, Boom Bip, Coldcut, UNKLE, Gorillaz, The Avalanches, The Beta Band
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