The
Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Behind The
Music
Artist: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Title:Behind the Music
Catalog#: AHA!032
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Tracks
on this CD: |
| Infra Riot |
| Sister
Surround (Windows Media) |
| In Someone Else's Mind |
| Mind the
Gap |
| Broken Imaginary
Time |
| 21st Century
Ripoff |
| Tonight |
| Keep the Line
Movin' |
| Nevermore |
| Independent
luxury |
| Ten Years
Ahead |
| Still Aging |
| In Your Veins |
| The Flood (Windows
Media) |
| Into the Next
Sun |
In a way, it's a completely new band that emerges on The Soundtrack Of Our Lives'
third full-length release, Behind The Music. The melancholic vibe that
dominated the first two albums has partly been replaced with more hard hitting
and groove-driven songs. Rockers such as “Keep the Line
Movin',” “Independent Luxury,” “Infra Riot” and the
voluptuous “Sister Surround,” burn with an incandescence that recalls
the Union Carbide days, post-dated with The Rolling Stones and updated with brilliant
studio alchemy. The band still keeps the balance though, with a handful of pure
pop singles begging for radio play, “Still Aging” and “Nevermore” and
the brilliant 60s psych-anthem-freakout “The
Flood.” The band also let their acoustic prowess shine through, delivering
moody and introspective songs such as the masterful piano tearjerker “Tonight," a
collaboration between keyboardist Martin Hederos and vocalist Ebbot Lundberg,
or the serene lullaby of “In Your Veins.” Once again The Soundtrack
Of Our Lives have created An Album Statement, like albums of era's past. Listening
to Behind The Music, you can't avoid being struck by the fervor and force
emanating from the songs. This is a band playing at the height of their ability,
and enjoying every second of it.
"In
the increasingly moribund rock galaxy, The Soundtrack of Our
Lives is a
supernova."
Three albums - huge fun. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - descended from the Swedish
MC5 of the late 1980s, Union Carbide Productions - debut in the U.S. with their
full library of trips (Hidden Agenda, CD), covering all corners of the modern
lysergic-beat vocabulary. Welcome to the Infant Freebase (1996) is a mosaic
of raga flair, Italian-B-movie pop corn and full amp fire that rocks one way,
from start to finish. Extended Revelation (for the Psychic Weaklings of Western
Civilization) (1998) is TSOOL’s bridge back to the spaced attack of
Hawkwind and ’68 Pink Floyd. And Behind
the Music (2001) is not a VH1 production but an iridescent ripper bundling
more Floyd and early R.E.M. with the mixed-exotica touch of the Beta Band but
way louder. Truth in advertising: the song title “Infra Riot.” -Rolling
Stone
THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES-Behind the Music
Please welcome the last great Brit-pop album of the twentieth century - so what
if it comes from Sweden and wasn't released until 2001? Behind The Music, the
third opus by The Soundtrack Of Our Lives (inexplicably, only its first U.S.
release), is an instant old-school-style epic in the vein of Oasis's (What's
The Story) Morning Glory? and Blur's The Great Escape, furthering the case for
TSOOL as the most bizarrely under-heralded rock band on the planet. But don't
disregard this as some sort of a hipster claim: the group's sound is so proven
it will make even classic rockers feel young again. Having mutated from the great
Stooges-wannabe Union Carbide Productions, which single-handedly brought garage-punk
to Sweden in the late '80s, TSOOL borrows from Zeppelin, The Sweet and Roxy Music
with the aptitude of those who know better. While no chord progression is laden
with unpredictability, the pub-rock call-to-arms "Infra Riot," the
Slider-meets-Stones riff-ready grievance "21st
Century Rip-Off" and driving, "Common People"-esque disaffection
at the heart of "The Flood" represent but three new examples of old-rock
perfection. Soundtrack is as huge as its name implies, and deserving of every
anthemic hyperbole your rock 'n' roll soul can imagine. - Piotr
Orlov: CMJ New Music Report Issue: 739 - Nov 12, 2001
"Some of the most extraordinary rock music you're
likely to hear this year is due Oct. 2, when Hidden Agenda Records will issue
three albums by the exceptional Swedish band the Soundtrack Of Our
Lives… Currently a sextet, the Soundtrack shows a remarkable facility for
emulsifying a wide panoply of post-'60s rock influences. Lundberg himself cites
Love and Captain Beefheart as stylistic precursors, but the Kinks, the Beatles,
the Who, the Byrds, and (most especially) Pink Floyd, among many others, also
come to play in the group's expansive, lushly-produced sound." -Billboard,
Chris Morris, August 25, 2001
"Popular within fashionable Scandinavian circles since 1996, the band now
hits the States with the simultaneous release of three albums. For those who
itch for untapped sounds yet balk at import prices, this three-hour onslaught
on Nordic psychedelia is a valuable ticket to a weird new world…" -Time
Out NY, Jay Ruttenberg, October 4-11, 2001
"Swedish psych-pop outfit The Soundtrack Of Our Lives specialize in the
type of bohemian narcotic-rock vibe that informed the late -‘60s recordings
of the Rolling Stones, the Who and Led Zeppelin. These three titles represent
the Soundtrack’s entire catalog, released in America for the first time,
starting with their 1996 debut and including their latest effort from February
2001. Fans of the “album rock” favored by early FM radio should eat
this stuff up with a spoon." -Alternative Press, Todd Hutlock, November
2001
"If there is value in versatility, then Sweden's The Soundtrack of Our Lives
have incalculable worth. Evolving out of the influential 80's cult band Union
Carbide Productions, the group applies a modern sheen to its 1960s and 1970s
prog, punk and pop leanings on Behind The Music… and when these cats
fuse Jagger/Richards with The Stone Roses, the results are stellar. Not just
a keeper, Behind The Music is a triumphant album that will quickly find it's
place among the most consistently gratifying discs in your
collection." -Rockpile, John D. Luerssen, November 2001
"A joyous excursion through the last 30 years of British and American pop
music, filtered through a distinctly Swedish world view… While their influences
might be familiar, The Soundtrack of Our Lives injects each song with such off-kilter
flair that for an hour or so, you’ll forget that all those other groups
ever existed." -Splendid E-zine, JJ, September
2001
"Soundtrack's roots are plain to see - a deep, abiding love of late-'60s
psychedelia and rock (think Rolling Stones, The Who, Love, Buffalo Springfield,
The Zombies, The Beach Boys and The Kinks) filtered through a startling gift
for catchy tunes, beautiful melodies and lush but never excessive
arrangements." -Lollipop, Brian Varney, Summer 2001
"The Soundtrack Of Our Lives uses all the rock to which its members have
ever listened as a basis for its own melodic excursions. They draw on everything
from 60s psychedelia to 70s arena rock to 90s Britpop, from Love and the MC5
to Neil Young and Simon & Garfunkel and every era of the Who. The band borrows
a lick here or pays tribute there, but rather than engaging the audience in a
game of spot-the-influence, it prefers to sound most like
itself… In the increasingly moribund rock galaxy, The Soundtrack of Our
Lives is a supernova." -High Bias Online, Michael Toland, September
16, 2001
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