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| Artist: Alphabeat
Label: Copenhagen Records/EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £12.99
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 172
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099952039324
ASIN: B00117BCC6
Release Date: June 2, 2008
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 a lovely upbeat guilty pleasure July 28, 2008
The alphabeat album is bound to help lift the gloom of those who had a hard days work with poppy upbeat tracks like "10,00 nights of thunder" and "fascination" which are popular updated throw backs to the 80's when the commitments, housemartins and everything 80's music had to offer but thankfully without the ott fashion statements.
 Disappointing Rehash July 7, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is not the original album. Three of the best tracks have been removed (Into the Jungle, Ocean Blue and The Hours) and replaced with sloppy generic synth-pop dribble (Gogo, Public Image and Touch me touching you). Get your hands on the original. Its much better than this one.
At once frothy and retro June 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great album, all high-octane Scissor Sister-esque camp one moment and full-of-itself grandeur the next.
"Go-Go" and "Boyfriend" sound like True Blue-era Madonna, having a mix with Opportunities-era Pet Shop Boys, whilst "10,000 Nights" and "Fascination" could have been on the last SS's album.
There's also a Grease soundtrack / rockabilly thing going on, which resurrects the shades of Aqua and <> The Cartoons, but there's a great sense of genuine fun and songwriting nous which elevates this album way beyond any of that.
The male vocalist has a kind of twang to his delivery that put me in mind of the lead vocalist of The Tubes ('Fee' Waybill) - no bad thing, in my book.
I didn't expect to like this, to be honest, but it has an inevitability and joie de vivre that's simply irresistible, as Robert Palmer once said.
Yes, there are other acts exploring similar ground, but this lot have the smack of authenticity about them.
Fun!
Alphabeat - Fantastic!!!! June 19, 2008
Alphabeat are brilliant! I saw them live twice recently in London and after the first performance i bought the album. The only disappointment was that one song - 'the message' is not on the album but was performed; it is a great song, other than that the album is terrific. I am eagerly following news of this band as i think that they will be around for a while.
It definately has the beat... June 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"This is Alphabeat" can only be described as 'a grower'.
The two singles "Fascination" and "10,000 Nights" are the most up-beat tracks on the album, making the others seem slightly... less enjoyable. After a few run throughs though, many other songs come into their own (such as "Boyfriend"). Oh, and the cover is nice too!
Overall a good buy!
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