Con Dolore This Sad Movie
Format: CD.
Year Of Release: 2001.
Label: Clairecords.
Label reference #: Fern 024.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M10687
Approximate release date: October 30, 2001.
Genres:
Price: $9.85 [Out of Stock]
Description: Guitars, piano, synthesizers, marimba, shakers and the vocals of Kristy and Ed, both formerly of Polar, make up this mysterious and quite pleasant dreampop/sometimes dance-pop album.
Track listing:
1. "Opening Theme"
2. "The 7th"
3. "She's Withering"
4. "She Said Goodbye"
5. "All Our Favorite Cats"
6. "Fractions Of A Second"
7. "Feed Us All"
8. "The Happy Girl"
9. "Dream"
10. "Unexpected Love"
11. "Why Are You Hiding?"
12. "Fractions Of A Second"
13. "This Sad Movie"
listen to all tracks as .m3u playlist
Twee Kitten review of This Sad Movie
by Keith Mclachlan
Do you know what would be truly the saddest movie ever made? It would be the movie made by some enterprising young filmmaker who decided merely to set-up an unmanned camera at the self-serve checkout lane at the grocery store. The horror on the audience's faces when they discovered what absolute imbeciles 99% of their fellow homo sapiens are would cause extreme depression and panic and surely a run on kleenex and visine. Have you had the pleasure of sitting behind someone who can't quite figure out an ATM in your lifetime? Well imagine the situation made exponentially more frustrating as those same social science majors attempt to figure out how to key in their 3 pounds of braeburn apples without shutting down the federal reserve because they have managed to cause the grocery computer system to overload by their technological incompetence. That movie would be much more tragic than the stills from the 'alleged' film documented by this record, photos that are collated in some sort of storyboard on the cover. It looks like a scene from Timecode which looked like a dreadful movie that I have no desire to ever see. The music is shoegaze-y, but also electronic-y, I have never heard their previous band Polar so I am not sure if this is a new direction for the band. I did once, in fact, review a Polar record for TK but it was one of the guys from Moose and they have since changed their name probably because of the american Polar but then the American Polar no longer exists and I notice there is now a DJ in the UK using the moniker Polar. Good times to be a litigator I suppose. Anyhow some of the Con Dolore material reminds me a bit of Curve and the girl, unlike the Isobella lady, has a beautiful voice and why they insist on letting anyone other than her sing is a bit of a puzzle. Must be the whole 'Look they are my words and only I can breathe life into them' whine going on but the guy can't sing a lick and should be shut down immediately. His tunes are more mechanical and sound like something a cutting-edge canadian band might do. It is waaaaay too long, clocks in at 9734 minutes but there are multiple moments of beauty in at least sixty-seven percent of those minutes and it is intriguing enough to require multiple listens to take it all in. Yippee for Clair then because they really are swell folks and maybe this record will make them billionaires.
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Format: CD.
Year Of Release: 2001.
Label: Clairecords.
Label reference #: Fern 024.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M10687
Approximate release date: October 30, 2001.
Genres:
Price: $9.85 [Out of Stock]
Description: Guitars, piano, synthesizers, marimba, shakers and the vocals of Kristy and Ed, both formerly of Polar, make up this mysterious and quite pleasant dreampop/sometimes dance-pop album.
Track listing:
1. "Opening Theme"
2. "The 7th"
3. "She's Withering"
4. "She Said Goodbye"
5. "All Our Favorite Cats"
6. "Fractions Of A Second"
7. "Feed Us All"
8. "The Happy Girl"
9. "Dream"
10. "Unexpected Love"
11. "Why Are You Hiding?"
12. "Fractions Of A Second"
13. "This Sad Movie"
listen to all tracks as .m3u playlist
Twee Kitten review of This Sad Movie
by Keith Mclachlan
Do you know what would be truly the saddest movie ever made? It would be the movie made by some enterprising young filmmaker who decided merely to set-up an unmanned camera at the self-serve checkout lane at the grocery store. The horror on the audience's faces when they discovered what absolute imbeciles 99% of their fellow homo sapiens are would cause extreme depression and panic and surely a run on kleenex and visine. Have you had the pleasure of sitting behind someone who can't quite figure out an ATM in your lifetime? Well imagine the situation made exponentially more frustrating as those same social science majors attempt to figure out how to key in their 3 pounds of braeburn apples without shutting down the federal reserve because they have managed to cause the grocery computer system to overload by their technological incompetence. That movie would be much more tragic than the stills from the 'alleged' film documented by this record, photos that are collated in some sort of storyboard on the cover. It looks like a scene from Timecode which looked like a dreadful movie that I have no desire to ever see. The music is shoegaze-y, but also electronic-y, I have never heard their previous band Polar so I am not sure if this is a new direction for the band. I did once, in fact, review a Polar record for TK but it was one of the guys from Moose and they have since changed their name probably because of the american Polar but then the American Polar no longer exists and I notice there is now a DJ in the UK using the moniker Polar. Good times to be a litigator I suppose. Anyhow some of the Con Dolore material reminds me a bit of Curve and the girl, unlike the Isobella lady, has a beautiful voice and why they insist on letting anyone other than her sing is a bit of a puzzle. Must be the whole 'Look they are my words and only I can breathe life into them' whine going on but the guy can't sing a lick and should be shut down immediately. His tunes are more mechanical and sound like something a cutting-edge canadian band might do. It is waaaaay too long, clocks in at 9734 minutes but there are multiple moments of beauty in at least sixty-seven percent of those minutes and it is intriguing enough to require multiple listens to take it all in. Yippee for Clair then because they really are swell folks and maybe this record will make them billionaires.
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