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dEUS - Vantage Point<br />
Supplier....: Team MND<br />
Ripper......: Team MND<br />
Quality.....: VBRkbps<br />
Release Date: Apr-06-2008<br />
Source......: CDDA<br />
Genre.......: Rock<br />
Total Tracks: 10<br />
Playtime....: 46:42 min<br />
CD Size.....: 66,2 MB<br />
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TrackListings <br />
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01 - When She Comes Down [05:06] <br />
02 - Oh Your God [03:52] <br />
03 - Eternal Woman [04:22] <br />
04 - Favourite Game [04:11] <br />
05 - Slow [06:09] <br />
06 - The Architect [03:57] <br />
07 - Is A Robot [04:58] <br />
08 - Smokers Reflect [04:27] <br />
09 - The Vanishing Of Maria Schneider [04:44] <br />
10 - Popular Culture [04:56] <br />
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Release Info<br />
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dEUS - Belgium's pride in fearful days. <br />
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http://www.deus.be <br />
http://www.myspace.com/deusbe <br />
http://houbi.com/belpop/groups/deus.htm <br />
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dEUS are an Antwerp-based band who take on the world, armed with a <br />
suitcase full of Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Pixies and Radiohead<br />
Their music is never straightforward, always with a twist that makes <br />
it stand out of the ordinary, nice melodies flirting with the <br />
experimental. Although gaining popularity on the post-Nirvana grunge <br />
wave across the world, they have a lot more to offer than the typical<br />
loud-quiet-loud song-structures which have become so typical for this<br />
scene. With their moody frontman and video-artist Tom Barman, their <br />
live concerts range from the clumsy and annoying to the brilliant <br />
and ingenious. <br />
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ALLMUSIC BIOGRAPHY <br />
The first Belgian-based indie act ever to sign to a major <br />
international label, the improvisational avant grunge group dEUS was <br />
originally comprised of vocalist/guitarist Tom Barman, bassist Stef <br />
Kamil Carlens, drummer Julle De Borgher, violinist Klaas Janzoons, <br />
and guitarist Rudy Trouv? Formed in Antwerp in 1991, dEUS began <br />
their career as strictly a cover band, but soon began performing new<br />
material, honing an irreverent, free-form live show drawing on <br />
influences ranging from folk and punk to jazz and prog rock. <br />
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After issuing a four-track EP titled Zea, dEUS mounted a series of <br />
London performances that led to a contract with Island Records. In <br />
1994 the group released its full-length bow, Worst Case Scenario, <br />
winning acclaim for the singles "Suds and Soda" and "Via." After <br />
announcing plans to produce their own pornographic film, they issued <br />
1995's My Sister, My Clock; however, in the wake of the record's <br />
release, Carlens exited to focus on his side project, Moondog Jr. <br />
Trouv?soon followed suit, channeling his energies into the group <br />
Kiss My Jazz; with new guitarist Craig Ward and bassist Danny "Cool <br />
Rocket" Mommens in tow, dEUS returned to the studio to cut 1997's In <br />
a Bar, Under the Sea. The Ideal Crash followed in 1999. <br />
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dEUS continues to bring out its best and then some on The Ideal <br />
Crash, which in many ways might be the group's best all-around <br />
effort yet. That makes it a further pity it didn't get an American <br />
release, relegating the quintet further into the realms of cult <br />
appreciation stateside -- an undeserved fate for a band that has so <br />
clearly worked well with its sources of inspiration there. If <br />
anything, though, dEUS has moved into the realms of removed elegance <br />
on The Ideal Crash -- the aggressive push mixed with nightclub <br />
shadows of the past turned into a strange, calming dream at many <br />
points. Consider "One Advice, Space," whose trippy keyboard whines <br />
and drones layer over the core song to create an unsettled murk, <br />
suddenly broken by the subtle shift to strings and sweetly layered <br />
vocals on the chorus. The gentle descending chime of "The Magic <br />
Hour" and the banjo and string-tinged slow building brawl "Instant <br />
Street" further capture the mood of seemingly relaxed intensity. <br />
David Bottrill's production is a secret element in the success of <br />
The Ideal Crash, his skilled ears helping to really bring out the <br />
sly but strong tension in so many of the band's songs. Opening <br />
number "Put the Freaks Up Front" in particular, shifting fluidly as <br />
it does into a m?ange of motorik-inspired rhythm trance and dark <br />
lounge jazz horns, with Barman's vocals and the overall results <br />
suggesting what Nirvana might have tried in another lifetime and a <br />
wider range to work with, sets a high bar at the start, even if much <br />
of the album works in lower-key ways. Nods subtle and otherwise to <br />
bands like Portishead (whose "Mysterons" seems to have suggested the <br />
start to "Sister Dew") give further evidence of a band that keeps <br />
its ears open while still retaining its own counsel on what to <br />
finally sound like. <br />
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