The Album Review Club - Week #145 - (page 1923) - Tellin' Stories - The Charlatans

[threespires]

What platform are you on? It is readily available on spotify as an album, not sure about other platforms but would imagine it should be, it was an official release.

It's on both YT and Amazon platforms too

 

[denislawsbackheel]

On first listen thank god it’s only an EP.

 

[Coatigan]

On first listen thank god it’s only an EP.

Good one.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

I definitely plan to go back through and listen to the non-acoustic originals too.

 

[Coatigan]

I definitely plan to go back through and listen to the non-acoustic originals too.

Start with the song Cardinals, as a taster. You'll more or less know all you need to from that. There is a lttle bit of a difference, and it certainly won't sit with everyone, I 100% get that.

Funnily enough, vol 2 has the better originals, this vol imo has the better 'acoustic' versions. See what I did there, I put it under quotation marks there, due to their liberal application of the word.

Dismantling Summer also works better as the original imo, the whole bittersweet happy but sad comes off better with more energy of the heavier instruments.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Start with the song Cardinals, as a taster. You'll more or less know all you need to from that. There is a lttle bit of a difference, and it certainly won't sit with everyone, I 100% get that.

Funnily enough, vol 2 has the better originals, this vol imo has the better 'acoustic' versions. See what I did there, I put it under quotation marks there, due to their liberal application of the word.

Dismantling Summer also works better as the original imo, the whole bittersweet happy but sad comes off better with more energy of the heavier instruments.

Cardinals is the stand out song this far IMO.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Bumping this as no reviews yet. Am writing mine tonight.

 

[journolud]

I've quite liked what I've heard so far and likely to listen to the second part of the EP or whatever it is. Not outstanding but decent.

 

[Coatigan]

Bumping this as no reviews yet. Am writing mine tonight.

I pretty much set the record for the lowest engagement nomination. And the longest spent on page 3.

I was almost considering requesting a re-set button and binning this and trying again. Thought a chance at a bit of dual experience here might have been a bit different and interesting, but hey ho.

 

[Coatigan]

Also expected a bit more discussion about the genre itself, and a few fog fact drops and references from its golden early days at the least.