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- Artist: Pompeii
- Album: Assembly
- Label: Eyeball
- Year of Release: 2006
- ME Rating:
- Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-09-08
RecommendPompeii plays the type of hand-wringing rock popular with teens and wannabe messiahs. If you like your jams drenched in desperate import, Assembly is for you. Like most bands with similar approaches, this is ok but neither original nor, for all its blather, that emotionally deep. Will look great on video, especially if you've just lost your soulmate. Shimmering in their Radiohead best, Pompeii fill Assembly with drifting, brooding sound and earnest lyrics. Your taste will determine whether or not "Ten Hundred Lights"?, "Pythons, Awake"? and other anthems on this ten track set represent a high or holding pattern in post-shoegazing shoegazing. Emo still stalks the earth, and this record, but at least there is more volume than mopery to drive the music. Don't be turned off by the cello.
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Log In or Register to Rate Albumson 2009-06-30 mountaloha Said:
I agree with symphony on this one. I think this album is pretty good, and in no way pretentious.
Rating: 7/10
on 2008-03-12 Symphony Said:
The single most inaccurate review on this site. This portrays them as some pseedo-Pitchfork bands for pompous elitists which is not true. The musical composition is probably what makes this album one of the best releases off the label. The cello is probably what makes this album unique. "Numbers" is an amazing song. Wow. So wrong.
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