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Artist : The Divine Comedy
Title : Liberation
Year : 1993
Label : Setanta
Genre : Indie
Ripped By : dogbowl on 09/12/2006
Post Date : dogbowl on 09/12/2006
Groups :
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1990s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie
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Technical:
Source : CD
Encoder : Exact Audio Copy 0.95b4 (Secure mode)
Codec : LAME 3.97b2
ACLO : -V 2 --vbr-new
Bitrate : VBR ~190K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag : ID3v2.3
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Track Listing:
1. Festive Road (1:55)
2. Death Of A Supernaturalist (3:19)
3. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (4:00)
4. I Was Born Yesterday (3:31)
5. Your Daddy's Car (3:55)
6. Europop (4:31)
7. Timewatching (3:53)
8. The Pop Singers Fear Of The Pollen Count (4:19)
9. Queen Of The South (4:27)
10. Victoria Falls (4:11)
11. Three Sisters (4:42)
12. Europe By Train (4:28)
13. Lucy (4:39)
Total Playing Time: 51:55 (min:sec)
Total Size : 66.5 MB (69,725,947 bytes)
As Standard : .nfo / .sfv / .m3u
Extras (if any):
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Comments (if any):
Second in the series is the first album that Neil Hannon recognises as The Divine
Comedy's debut. This one hints at the sort of sound The Divine Comedy developed into.
Rather than the indie guitar sound of Fanfare they go for a more orchestrally
arranged vibe with string and other traditional instruments and so on.
Neil's voice is more assured and the lyrics are delivered with his usual wit and
panache.
He has also recently secured the rights to the complete back catalogue of Divine Comedy
material and it looks like the whole lot might be re-released in the near future.
Back to the series...coming up in chronological order now and over the next week are:
Fanfare For The Comic Muse <---Posted 09 December
Liberation <---Posted 09 December
Promenade
Casanova
A Short Album About Love
Fin De Siècle
A Secret History
Regeneration
Absent Friends
Victory For The Comic Muse
Standout Track/s (if any):
Daddy's Car, Pop Singers Fear, Bernice..., Lucy
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Review / Notes (if any):
Jettisoning the rest of the band but keeping the name, Hannon as the Divine Comedy
becomes as art-pop as it gets with his first full album, but with an extreme Englishness
that even Ray Davies might be hard-pressed to keep up with. Liberation is mostly a
self-composed and performed release, aside from a couple of string players, a French
horn performer, and a drummer, plus a song lyric borrowed from Wordsworth, giving "Lucy"
a crisp, gentle rock recasting here. Otherwise it's Hannon's hyper-elegant show all the
way, practically begging to be equally played in a Victorian drawing room, at a swank
'20s club, at a swinging beautiful people party in London, or at an end-of-the-century
Britpop disco. Slightly more rock/poppy tunes like "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" groove along
with MOR backing vocals and understated energy, while others pile on the artsy touches:
the harpsichord underlying the entirety of "Death of a Supernaturalist" and the mournful
string arrangement which provides all of the music on "Timewatching." A few songs rock
in a more straightforward manner, but often only just so: "I Was Born Yesterday" interrupts
its persistent pounding with a spoken-word break referring to ballerinas and standing en
pointe while a cello plays; the acoustic guitar-based "Victoria Falls" has a fragile,
frosty feeling to it. Hannon, meanwhile, belies his Northern Ireland upbringing to an
astounding degree with his clipped, toff singing style. As for subject matter, Hannon
tackles everything from borrowing "Your Daddy's Car" to the jaunty, XTC-inspired "The
Pop Star's Fear of the Pollen Count," slipping in as much wry humor as he does gentle
pathos and reflection
