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"The Fake Sound Of Progress" Lost Prophets |
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What a find this is for Columbia Records. Immediately throw away your preconceptions
with "major label" styles and the like, Lost Prophets
are everything new and innovative in an otherwise flat modern music scene-an With a youthful exuberance and wry sense of intuitiveness, "The Fake Sound Of Progress" features eleven diverse and dynamic tracks that stand out equally on their own. Expect no big hit here or throwaway single there, this album's built on longevity, the far-reaching principles of which haven't been heard in years. The Welsh sextet channels individualist tendencies within their music which at once features raging guitar riffs, cascading harmonies, moody experimentalism and against the grain gearshifts-finally a band willing to acknowledge their breadth of influences and make them stick. Forefront references quickly lead to an unlikely mix of Korn meets Kings-X proudly fielding the baton handed down by former innovators Faith No More. The results are an impressive mix of modernity within the fields of Metal, Pop, Punk, Dub, and New Wave mixed with Sampling/Scratching subtleties and nary a trace of pain or preemptive posturing. Nothing fake going on here, they've created "The Real Thing" for 2001 and raised the bar for the rest. Released By Columbia Records Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu] P.O. Box 20252
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