*A note to all people reading my reviews: My reviews are designed to be short, concise and to the p...
*A note to all people reading my reviews: My reviews are designed to be short, concise and to the point. I don't like reviewing each track individually, I prefer to highlight the best tracks and the worst tracks for downloaders.
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For the past 10 years, Placebo have been one of the main rock bands that this country have produced. Coming off the back off Britpop, their first album included a strong, exciting set of songs on sex, drugs, and, well, more sex. Throughout the years, admittedly, they have kind of stayed on the same lines.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. They have written some of the most memorable dark pop that this country has seen, and even had a few hits in the bargain, such as 'Pure Morning' or 'Every You Every Me'.
But that was then, and this is now. On their 5th studio album, they've grown up a little bit, and even if there are still drug references a-plenty, they've started writing songs about (shudder) love. Opener 'Meds' is a typical Placebo effort about the medicine cupboard, which begins with an excellent acoustic guitar riff, before coming in heavier, which says 'We're back!' in one of the most exciting ways this year.
And there are many more tracks on here that will impress the Placebo fan. 'Infrared' is bristling with energy, and sounds like nothing they've done before, and 'Drag' is another loud but thoughtful song. And the ballads don't disappoint either, with songs like 'Pierrot the Clown' and 'Follow the Cops Back Home' sounding sweeter than anything they've ever done, the latter sounding like the new 'Sleeping With Ghosts'.
But no album is without its flaws. And this album comes with two. The first is the track 'Blind', which verges on emo and brings out a very nasal tone to Brian Molko's voice, while losing all charm. The second is the over production. Some of these tracks have so much potential but the production here is too over worked on, which works better on the ballads, but on tracks such as 'Because I Want You' it loses all the enery and power off the demos.
But overall, the album does not disappoint. Some of the material is good enough to even attract new fans to the band, and bring a whole new fresh fanbase to Brian Molko and band. Tracks like 'Post Blue', 'Infrared' and 'One of a Kind' are definitely ones to look out for.
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Advantages: unique deep lyrics, touching and provoking, Brian Molko's voice Disadvantages: not enough pure guitar sound; some tracks are weak; too depressing
morticiaaddams 04.05.2009 (04.05.2009)
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Review of Meds - Placebo
Advantages: unique deep lyrics, touching and provoking, Brian Molko's voice Disadvantages: not enough pure guitar sound; some tracks are weak; too depressing
morticiaaddams 04.05.2009 (04.05.2009)
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Review of Meds - Placebo
Advantages: There are a couple of good songs, I guess.... Disadvantages: Lots of rubbish, tries too hard to be interesting, lacks the supposed positive attitude...
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