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Looking Glass
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- The Birthday Massacre
- Released 2008
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- Looking Glass [*][Multimedia Track]
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Looking Glass [*][Multimedia Track]
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album review
Old and new combine on this sumptuous EP from synth-gloom heroes the Birthday Massacre. The title track, "Looking Glass," is pulled from the band's Walking with Strangers album, a darkly lush dance-pop delight. Three other tracks from that set are also featured here, but all in remixed form. The driving dance of the gothy "Falling Down" now swirls about in a far spacier and doomier realm, while the muscular goth pop of "Weekend" is reinvented as a Depeche Mode-ish extravaganza. In contrast, the Depeche-esque "Red Star" now undergoes two transformations -- initially into an airy, clubby delight, and then remodeled into lavish electronica fare. That's the old; the new comes in the shape of "Shiver" and "Nowhere," the former a steamy gloom-pop number powered by irrepressible beats. Its lyrical theme of a girl trapped in a cold, cruel world is re-created in the latter piece, a frigid instrumental wasteland swept by swirls of synths. And finally, there's the old made new, as the Birthday gang frolics darkly through the past with a rollicking cover of Tommy James & the Shondells' '60s hit "I Think We're Alone Now," although it's probably mall rat supremo Tiffany's version they're intent on interring for good. A video of this number is also included. Something grand to keep fans going through the dark nights until the band's next album arrives. ~ Jo-Ann Greene, All Music Guide
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Curiouser
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- By TigerSinClair
- 12/23/2008 19:03:11
- For those music connoisseurs who are all things stories and faery tales, I definitely recommend The Birthday Massacre. Songs like Neverending Story will stay with you and entrance you. Their new, retro sound of haunting lush vocals and edgy instrumentals will send chills down the spine of anyone--It is safe to say that with The Birthday Massacre all that glitters really is gold.
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Awesome Single
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- By drkraziel
- 5/12/2008 00:38:02
- Shiver is great song, and the cover is even better, awesome band, so listen to it
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