November 9, 2004

The Go Find - Miami (2004) permalink

Official rating: 92

Minimalism and technology keep finding beautiful ways to live together. Today’s singer/songwriter albums no longer fit in a genre to themselves, largely in part due to individuals having simpler, more transferrable methods (anyone with a laptop can make an album) of artificially surrounding themselves with musicians or noises, or transforming themselves into a chorus. The inventiveness resulting from this modern ease and freedom is immense.
the go find - miami
Which brings me to The Go Find’s album, Miami. As the project of Dieter Sermeus, his Belgian iBook, and a few helper monkeys to carry his luggage, the album eloquently weaves standard rock vocals with Postal Servicey/euro-indie-pop computerization. Everything on Miami is seemingly synthetic because it probably is. Even his voice. He’s probably not even a real person. A hologram of some sort, perhaps.

Either way, the beats pulse, the guitar soothes, the bubbly insanity in the background sizzles and Dietermeister’s voice is instantly gripping.

There’s hardly a song on Miami that doesn’t blister a spot on your mind (or thumb) and make you think about it constantly and obsessively and rigorously for several months like a lost crack rock.

So, yeah, it’s better than the Postal Service album.

Music — Posted by: chris @ 10:45 pm


5 Comments »

  1. Happy Birthday to ME biotch! T-Minus five to seven days til I get my DSL modem…then I OWN your song library whore.


    Comment by John — December 2, 2004 @ 5:28 pm
  2. Then you can start writing the reviews for me.


    Comment by chris — December 2, 2004 @ 5:42 pm
  3. I’m so glad you loved this CD. Hope you got to see them live too.


    Comment by ashley — December 4, 2004 @ 3:05 pm
  4. Very tasty album. Track 2 sounds so very Depeche Mode at times.


    Comment by Jake's beard just isn't long enough. — December 20, 2004 @ 11:29 pm
  5. this is great stuff. something so unoriginally unique. check out notwist’s neon golden for something along these same lines.


    Comment by pedro wilcox — March 1, 2005 @ 10:27 pm

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