Attack of the Grey Lantern

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艺人: Mansun
语种: 英语
厂牌: EMI
发行时间: 1997年02月17日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Opening with the swirling, cinematic strings of &The Chad Who Loved Me,& Mansun's debut album Attack of the Grey Lantern is anything but a conventional Brit-pop record. Few debut records are this assured, especially when a group is developing such an idiosyncratic, individual style. Mansun recalls many artists -- Suede, Manic Street Preachers, Tears for Fears, David Bowie, ABC, Blur, Prince -- without sounding exactly like any of them. Attack of the Grey Lantern is a grandiose, darkly seductive blend of new wave and '90s indie rock, filled with phased guitars, drum machines, and subversive, off-kilter song structures, many of which wind past five minutes. No song is ever quite what it seems -- &Mansun's Only Love Song& balances between soul and fractured pop, &Stripper Vicar& has new wave backing vocals and hard-rock chords, while &Taxloss& marries Suede's dark glam rock with uneasy psychedelia. It's an ambitious, even pretentious, record, but Mansun has enough confidence and skill to make it an astonishingly original debut. [The American edition of Attack of the Grey Lantern, however, is a bit of a different story. For some reason, the sequencing has been completely scrambled and &Stripper Vicar& has been replaced by the inferior early single &Take It Easy, Chicken.& Since almost all of the songs were segued together and the album worked as a series of shifting sonic textures and moods, the re-sequenced album is simply a disaster, ludicrously robbing a fine concept album of its concept.]

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