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Maserati
Released 2002

The Language
07:48
928 plays

Moving With Heavy Hearts
07:59
911 plays

Keep It Gold
02:53
827 plays

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- 1
- Ambassador Of Cinema
- 05:57
- 1,209 plays

- 2
- The Language
- 07:48
- 928 plays

- 3
- Moving With Heavy Hearts
- 07:59
- 911 plays

- 4
- Keep It Gold
- 02:53
- 827 plays

- 5
- Being a President Is Like Riding a Tiger
- 07:57
- 766 plays

- 6
- Cities
- 06:54
- 726 plays

- 7
- A Common Interest In Silence
- 02:49
- 732 plays

- 8
- There Will Always Be Someone Behind You
- 07:32
- 707 plays

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album review

Maserati's use of standard rock instrumentation and explorations of musical forms outside the genre may have come a few years too late -- bands like Tortoise and Shipping News being only two of the many acts to excel at this in the mid-'90s. Still, Language of Cities is an excellent debut from a post-rock band whose Athens, GA, roots would imply a more Brian Wilson-esque approach to songwriting. Though most songs meander thoughtfully through tremolo-filled guitar passages tinted with soft-brushed cymbals, songs like "Keep It Gold" go for the more complex, forward-churning tendencies of bands like Polvo. The open spaces on songs like "Being a President Is Like Riding a Tiger" suggest that these guys have listened to some of the more organic IDM and ambient electronic music like Labradford or Aphex Twin, building textures instead of stringing along notes. Hardly a breakthrough, Language of Cities is more like a retrospective of all that was great about the last decade's instrumental rock without all the missteps that have made the genre such a cliché. ~ Daphne Carr, All Music Guide