Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream » Neon Heights http://carlsandburgvisits.com Where We Play It By Ear Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:20:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Reaching Neon Heights http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2007/11/15/reaching-neon-heights/ http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2007/11/15/reaching-neon-heights/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:30:07 +0000 Benji http://carlsandburgvisits.com/2007/11/15/reaching-neon-heights/  UK trip-hop electronic collective Neon Heights has just released their proper LP You Make Love to Robots & You Wonder What People are For. I’ve always been partial to epic-long album titles, and the music really does justice to the expectations. I have been following Neon Heights over the past several years now, and this release is certainly the most mature and ambitious to date. You Make Love spreads itself over a wide range of genres, hitting dub, hip-hop, downtempo lounge, and even some classic rock in all the right spots. “Walked Out This Morning” is a drawn out lullaby of the famous line from James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain”, perhaps the highlight on this album. The track “A Delicate Thing” is coated in pure sugary goodness–a 6:16 vocal delight. “Hot n Freezing” is an upbeat Zero 7-ish tune, that leads well into the loungey “Stop Playing” and the Gnarls Barkley-esque “Dreaming”. It’s hard to go wrong with this album, so get yourself a copy of You Make Love…

Listen to “Walked Out This Morning” (4.9/5)

Listen to “Stop Playing” (4.6/5)

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