Numbers - Now You Are This
Building on the expansive pop of the 2005 'We're Animals' album, but taking the sound into a newly pensive wilderness, Numbers 2007 album, 'Now You Are This', is a worry-stained record - all minimal, bluntly entrancing riffs, insistent drumming and tense, reverberant synthesizers.
There isn't an easy comparison for the dire, wounded poise of these songs - a secret pact between beauty and fear? The futuristic propulsion of Kraftwerk filtered through the raw-knuckled roughness of Suicide? Surprisingly, the most disquieting aspect of the songs is their subtle charm - 13 tracks of dazed and charged near-collapse that unexpectedly catch in your mind, echoing their haunted buzz for days and weeks after the record ends. Not since The Silver Apples has a band so successfully wedded a cacophony of electronic keyboards with such a clear-voiced pop sensibility.
TRACKLIST:
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New Life
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Mind Hole
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Kosmos Love
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Hey Hey Dream
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Fantasy Life
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I Ripped My Own Heart Out
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Fly On The Window
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The Mapping Of E8
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Lone Life
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Liela Mila
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Everything Is Fine
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I Want To Believe
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What Happened To You
Double gatefold LP, two 45 RPM 12" discs.