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Music Review
Music: Undisputed Attitude [Import]
Best of Old Skool Ibiza [Box set]
Blue Fear [CD-single] [Import]
Away from the Sun [Limited Edition w/ Bonus DVD]
Believe in Angels...Believe in Me
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5
Amazon.com
Dead Media is Hefner's fifth album in four years. They have slowed down and have become a little less awkward and angry since their abrasive embryonic stages as South England's answer to Pavement on 1998's Breaking God's Heart. The hooks and smart words are still in much evidence, though, on such songs as the snappy, analogue synthesizer-led "When the Angels Play Their Drum Machines" and their melancholy tribute to the fourth astronaut to walk on the moon, "Alan Bean." The quartet may be prolific, but there's certainly no diluting the quality. Darren Hayman still has a way of singing so plaintively as to break your heart, and the music is now a gentle hybrid of Joe Meek, early electronic pop pioneers, Daniel Miller's Silicon Teens, someone all alt-dot-country and soulful (Giant Sand, say), and something else altogether. This is an understated gem. --Everett True
Album Description
Dead Media is Hefner's fifth album. Too Pure Records.