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| Artist: Maps
Label: Mute
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 11902
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 094638891123
EAN: 0094638891123
ASIN: B000NA2UG4
Release Date: May 14, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 slow incandescence September 13, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The sticker on the album cover has a Guardian review which says 'A joy from start to finish'. And that isn't even hype - for a change it's just simply true. Every track is beautiful. Every single one. And that is saying something these days.
It's blissed out JAMC; Spacemen 3 at their most elliptical and melodic. Gorgeous, incandescent, wonderful. This has been the best album of the year for me so far.
 Too sweet September 11, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Having bought this album on the strength of the standout track It Will Find You, I found the rest of the album just slightly disappointing. It Will Find You is eerie, hypnotic and harsh, yet it has a truly massive, multi-layered sound and a relentless rhythm. It's remarkable, and manages the rare trick that both My Bloody Valentine (Loveless) and The Jesus and Mary Chain (Psychocandy) achieved - of successfully marrying a sweetly sung melody to a wall of noise. The rest of Maps' album is still very good, but maybe just a little too nice. The arrangements maybe steal too obviously from their clear influences - MBV of course, with a dash of Ride, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, and maybe a hint of Smashing Pumpkins around the time of Adore but without the sense of menace. Worth the price of admission for It Will Find You, but otherwise a touch bland.
Simply Beautiful August 21, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This album is gorgeous.
I bought it on impulse and have been listening to it nonstop.
I actually think it deserves 5 stars, but since I've only had it for 3 days it probably wouldn't be fair to give it 5.
I come from a Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Muse, Radiohead, Mew, 65daysofstatic... music background and I found this to be really refreshing and uplifting, but not in a cheesy way.
I especially love the song 'Liquid Sugar', but there is really not a single weak or even average track.
Can't wait for the next album.
Bloddy lovely August 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A cross between Beloved (from the original summer of love, '89, natch), Aqualung and some kind of blissed out David Arnold, this is simply too bloody nice... Eloise is a corker - hairs on the back of your neck standing to attention... heartbreaking, uplifting, Maps is the real deal. Park your car up on the forest at sunset, crank it and weep
 Dull dull dull July 25, 2007
6 out of 19 found this review helpful
A couple of mediocre tracks cannot disguise the fact that this vastly over-rated alblum is simply dull. Bland vocals float vapidly over trite melodies such that what has been created is no more than an understanding of what it would be like to be stuck in a lift with Air out-takes on a contiuous loop. Do not believe the hype and give this slice of tedium a wide berth. Too late for me so I will give it to the wife instead - she likes this sort of thing. James Blunt for trip-floppers.
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