Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Herd Killing
2. Dead Cities
3. Her Face Forms In Summertime
4. We Have Explosive
5. Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me
6. My Kingdom
7. Max
8. Antique Toy
9. Quagmire
10. In A State Of Permanent Abyss
11. Glass
12. Yage
13. Vit Drowning
14. Through Your Gills I Breathe
15. First Death In The Family
| | Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Future Sound Of London | | Recording type: | Studio | | Distributor: | EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics | | Recording mode: | Stereo |
| | Album notes | Future Sound Of London: Garry Cobain, Brian Dougans.Recorded at Earthbeat Studios, London, England in 1996.This seventy-minute odyssey overloads your senses and sends you off on a cerebral dance unlike any other. Be prepared to embark on an adventure in mood and texture, to groove like never before as DEAD CITIES transports you to a hazy dreamland of ambient stylings. Future Sound Of London has a method to their madness, a way with their beats, grooves, layers and dubs that is uniquely their own. While this album may not be the appropriate response to all your moods, when it fits, it fits like a glove. DEAD CITIES is more than just a great trance-inducer, it's an out-of-this-world experience, bringing you to a place where there's a lot to see. Some parts of this world are very beautiful and some are ugly, some soft and gentle, some cruder, but the contrasts are the most beautiful of all. DEAD CITIES IS A rich, textured album with more layers than one could count.
| | Editorial reviews | Ranked #47 in NME's 1996 critic's poll.
NME
4 out of 5 - ...Bleak and unforgiving, set adrift on a sea of angst....Corrosive beats lend a fierce rhythmic urgency to the dense backdrop of sampled noise....[with] a symphonic flair that most ambient/techno pretenders would scarcely imagine, let alone attempt...
Muzik (11/01/1996)
...the perfect soundtrack for a post-apocalyptic society....an eclectic mix of trancey soundscapes, electronic wizardry and scary found sounds....There's no better music for creeping through cyberspace.
Option (01/01/1997)
5 (out of 5) ...perhaps the most complete, vibrant and challenging set of music you'll hear this year...
Alternative Press (12/01/1996)
...A somber mix that will challenge even the most die-hard electronic-music devotees. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (11/22/1996)
...dashing scavengers...fashioning their apocalyptic electronica from ravaged, rehabilitated scraps of Run-DMC, Ozric Tentacles, Welsh songbird Mary Hopkin and a little girl crying....full of color, mood and an emotionally agitated, last-stand vitality that rarely grows in the suburbs.
Rolling Stone (12/26/1996)
3 Stars (out of 5) - ...an effects-laden stream of conciousness. Here you are as likely to run into the spectral beauty of an ersatz choir as you are the sound of exploding TVs. The keynote, though, is doom, death, and decay....Is it art? undoubtedly....fun? Not without several stiff drinks inside you.
Q (11/01/1996)
Ranked #47 in NME's 1996 critic's poll.Rolling Stone (12/26/96, p.195) - ...dashing scavengers...fashioning their apocalyptic electronica from ravaged, rehabilitated scraps of Run-DMC, Ozric Tentacles, Welsh songbird Mary Hopkin and a little girl crying....full of color, mood and an emotionally agitated, last-stand vitality that rarely grows in the suburbs.Q (11/96, p.122) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - ...an effects-laden stream of conciousness. Here you are as likely to run into the spectral beauty of an ersatz choir as you are the sound of exploding TVs. The keynote, though, is doom, death, and decay....Is it art? undoubtedly....fun? Not without several stiff drinks inside you.Entertainment Weekly (11/22/96, p.138) - ...A somber mix that will challenge even the most die-hard electronic-music devotees. - Rating: B+Alternative Press (12/96, p.74) - 5 (out of 5) ...perhaps the most complete, vibrant and challenging set of music you'll hear this year...Option (1-2/97, pp.87-88) - ...the perfect soundtrack for a post-apocalyptic society....an eclectic mix of trancey soundscapes, electronic wizardry and scary found sounds....There's no better music for creeping through cyberspace.Muzik (11/96, p.128) - 4 out of 5 - ...Bleak and unforgiving, set adrift on a sea of angst....Corrosive beats lend a fierce rhythmic urgency to the dense backdrop of sampled noise....[with] a symphonic flair that most ambient/techno pretenders would scarcely imagine, let alone attempt...
NME
Ranked #47 in NME's 1996 critic's poll.Rolling Stone (12/26/96, p.195) - ...dashing scavengers...fashioning their apocalyptic electronica from ravaged, rehabilitated scraps of Run-DMC, Ozric Tentacles, Welsh songbird Mary Hopkin and a little girl crying....full of color, mood and an emotionally agitated, last-stand vitality that rarely grows in the suburbs.Q (11/96, p.122) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - ...an effects-laden stream of conciousness. Here you are as likely to run into the spectral beauty of an ersatz choir as you are the sound of exploding TVs. The keynote, though, is doom, death, and decay....Is it art, undoubtedly....fun.Not without several stiff drinks inside you.Entertainment Weekly (11/22/96, p.138) - ...A somber mix that will challenge even the most die-hard electronic-music devotees. - Rating: B+Alternative Press (12/96, p.74) - 5 (out of 5) ...perhaps the most complete, vibrant and challenging set of music you'll hear this year...Option (1-2/97, pp.87-88) - ...the perfect soundtrack for a post-apocalyptic society....an eclectic mix of trancey soundscapes, electronic wizardry and scary found sounds....There's no better music for creeping through cyberspace.Muzik (11/96, p.128) - 4 out of 5 - ...Bleak and unforgiving, set adrift on a sea of angst....Corrosive beats lend a fierce rhythmic urgency to the dense backdrop of sampled noise....[with] a symphonic flair that most ambient/techno pretenders would scarcely imagine, let alone attempt...
NME
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