2nd album from Sweden`s The Chrsysler with 5 bonus trax on the US
version.
They create a landscape that is both fun and introspective, innocent and
worldlyÂ.the album feels like Nick Drake meets the Byrds-Sweethearts
of the
Rodeo. The band¹s debut album Failures And Sparks was well-received by
music
writers, who have compared The Chrysler`s enigmatic, bonfire folk and
baroque, jangling pop to The Byrds, Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, Nick
Drake, The Band, Belle & Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, Lambchop, and
Norway¹s Kings Of Convenience. "4 stars... The Chrysler`s first album
(2003`s Failures and Sparks) was a very pleasing amalgamation of classic
American influences (Neil Young, the Band), emotional U.K. sounds
(Coldplay,
Snow Patrol), and hooky Swedish pop. Their second, 2005`s Cold War
Classic,
makes a small step forward both in songcraft and production, making an
already good band pretty close to excellent. As before, the band`s
sound is
built around a sparse foundation of guitars, bass, keyboards, and drums.
They layer in judiciously placed violins, percussion, horns, and backing
vocals. This time out, though, Henrik von Euler`s production is a bit
sharper and the arrangements more carefully plotted out, which adds an
extra
dimension to the sound of the album.. Cold War Classic is the kind of
record
you can disappear into; it creates a gentle and peacefully sad mood
that`s
hard to shake for a while afterward, like a well-written book or
well-made
movie that creates its own world. The Chrysler don`t get the same praise
that some of their poppier and hipper fellow Swedes get, but they seem
like
a band that`s going to be making records this classic for a long time to
come."-AMG.
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