Complete Recordings Vol.2 1931-1933 (Night & Day) - Fred Astaire

Advantages: classy and atmospheric
Disadvantages: not for everyone

.... The music beautifully conjures up the image of floating and serenity. 4. "What Else Do You Love?" and 5. "Why Picton?" - these are two more short fragments, a couple of minutes of delicate piano and strings. Very haunting and mournful. 6. "Cheek to Cheek" - this is the first track that wasn't composed by Yared. It's Fred Astaire's version, a nice contrast to the preceeding track, and perfectly capturing the mood of the period and the film. It was used during the film on more than one occasion, most notably when it was used to contrast the happy sound of the song, with tragic events for one of the characters. 7. "Kip's Lights" - another fragment of delicate piano music. This corresponds to the scene where the Sikh, Kip, places tiny lights all around the convent garden for Hana. 8. "Hana's Curse" - this is a much darker and bleaker... Read review

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...on their short, yet hugely successful UK tour, whilst still allowing themselves enough time to record and release their follow up record ‘Where You Want To Be’, released through Victory Records in late 2004. Tracks like ‘A Decade Under The Influence’ and ‘I Am Fred Astaire’ simply comply to the set pattern of the bands debut, after all….if it aint broke, don’t fix it. Lazzara’s song writing ability has also little changed, still telling tales of woe and heartache, as most evident in the stunningly beautiful ‘New American Classic’, easily the bands best single track of their career to date. It’s somewhat touching message, of latter hope, is one that’s replicated throughout the albums 11 tracks, with ‘Number Five With A Bullet’ and ‘Set Phasers To Stun’ a couple more of the hallmark ‘emo’ hits residing on ‘Where You Want To Be‘. Comparisons to bands... Read review

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Advantages: lazzara's vocals, doesn't become bogged down in it's own emotions
Disadvantages: fails to improve upon the bands debut 'Tell All Your Friends'....

...on their short, yet hugely successful UK tour, whilst still allowing themselves enough time to record and release their follow up record 'Where You Want To Be', released through Victory Records in late 2004. Tracks like 'A Decade Under The Influence' and 'I Am Fred Astaire' simply comply to the set pattern of the bands debut, after all….if it aint broke, don't fix it. Lazzara's song writing ability has also little changed, still telling tales of woe and heartache, as most evident in the stunningly beautiful 'New American Classic', easily the bands best single track of their career to date. It's somewhat touching message, of latter hope, is one that's replicated throughout the albums 11 tracks, with 'Number Five With A Bullet' and 'Set Phasers To Stun' a couple more of the hallmark 'emo' hits residing on 'Where You Want To Be'. Comparisons to bands... Read review

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