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Music Review
I Believe [Import] [Limited Edition]
Palestrina: Stabat Mater; Anonymous: Laudario di Cortona: A Medieval Mystery
Sex Machine [CD-single] [Import]
Sounds of Nature & the Great Outdoors
The Ballad of Mott: A Retrospective
Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music
Soft Like Me, Pt. 2 [CD-single] [Import]
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Here are a couple of handy comparison points to make when trying to impress bohemian friends with your knowledge of Movietone: Robert Wyatt's gentle, English prog-folkiness; the free-jazz inflections of Movietone's fellow Bristol experimentalists Flying Saucer Attack, Crescent, and Third Eye Foundation; St Etienne, if they'd ever spent time on the windswept, static streets of Chicago; the seductive humor of Jacques Tati's films, all blurred and snapped again through an antique Brownie camera; and seagulls hovering over the broken pier on Brighton front. The Blossom Filled Streets is an apt description for this most bewitching of mood-creators: every last echoed guitar chord and faraway horn resonates with the sound of England's backwater towns. No track should be picked out--as soporific and surprising as "1930s Beach House" and "In a Marine Light" are--because the whole is a seamless soundscape, the soundtrack to a movie that just doesn't need to be made. --Everett True