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構成数 |
1 |
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輸入 |
パッケージ仕様 |
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発売日 |
2018年03月02日 |
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規格品番 |
COOKLP692TP |
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SKU |
711297519273 |
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 00:00:00
The seventh studio long-player from the stalwart English alt-rock outfit, the aptly named Love Is a Basic Need serves up ten expertly crafted specimens of Coldplay-era Brit-pop that invoke the highs and lows of devotion. Leaving behind the electronic flourishes of their eponymous 2014 reboot, it's tempting to call the album a return to Embrace's late-'90s roots. While there's no denying the stadium-sized grandiosity of midtempo, butane lighter-ready power ballads like "Wake Up Call," "Never," and the soaring, "Hey Jude"-aping title track, Love Is a Basic Need has more in common with the band's 2004 comeback LP Out of Nothing, which featured the slow-burning Chris Martin (Coldplay)-penned hit "Gravity," than it does the nosebleed seat-bating, guitar-driven U2-isms that propelled their 1998 debut into the stratosphere. Still, it's good to hear Embrace playing to their strengths again, and despite its architectural and lyrical mundanity, Love Is a Basic Need succeeds, more than a few times, in sonically replicating the arm-hair-raising rush of amour. ~ James Christopher Monger
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1.Finish Line, The
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2.Never
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3.Wake Up Call
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4.Snake Oil
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5.Where You Sleeping
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6.All That Remains
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7.Rabbit Hole
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8.Horseshoe in My Glove
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9.My Luck Comes in Threes
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10.Love Is a Basic Need
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2014年の活動再開から2枚目、通算7枚目となる本作は引き続きギター担当のリチャードによるセルフ・プロデュース。UK叙情派ブームを盛り上げたバンドの意地が窺えるドラマティックな美メロの洪水で、オープニング曲から大団円みたいな雰囲気だ。往時のライヴァルたちが音楽的な冒険を続けるなか、彼らは初志貫徹のスロウテンポな泣きのロックをひたすら鳴らす。その頑固さにまたしてもヤラレた!
bounce (C)長崎耕平タワーレコード (vol.413(2018年3月25日発行号)掲載)
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