| 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.

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.


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
Then you can start writing the reviews for me.
Comment by chris — December 2, 2004 @ 5:42 pm
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
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
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