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For the sheer quantity of dysfunctional musical bric-a-brac that My Computer manage to shoe-horn into each and every track, Vulnerabilia is a staggering album. That the Manchester duo actually make good with their ferociously eclectic tastes, is an astonishing triumph of imagination over reason. By rights the chaotic, stop-start collision of folky guitars, plaintive vocals, jack-hammer beats, melancholic string sections, vocoders and snarling analogue noise, should make for painful and confused listening. Yet for all their disparate ingredients, the songs possess an aching sensitivity and tender beauty that's absolutely mesmeris
For the sheer quantity of dysfunctional musical bric-a-brac that My Computer manage to shoe-horn into each and every track, Vulnerabilia is a staggering album. That the Manchester duo actually make good with their ferociously eclectic tastes, is an astonishing triumph of imagination over reason. By rights the chaotic, stop-start collision of folky guitars, plaintive vocals, jack-hammer beats, melancholic string sections, vocoders and snarling analogue noise, should make for painful and confused listening. Yet for all their disparate ingredients, the songs possess an aching sensitivity and tender beauty that's absolutely mesmerising. Driven by an epic sense of drama and lyrical daydreams of making it out of the gutter, they are the musical equivalent of emotional turmoil. In fact, the murky likes of "All I Ever Wanted Was a Good Time" and "For Somebody Else"--moving from desolately plucked acoustic guitars and lonesome Sputnik bleeps to stomping dancefloor anger and back again--convey the highs, lows and desperation of life like nothing else before them. --Dan Gennoe
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Manufacturer: 13 Amp
Release date: 26 August 2002
EAN: 5055109400423
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