MrQc said:
Tear in my eye for you.....enjoy it.
Appreciate it...there was a tear in my eye when it finally arrived!
Just a shame its not coloured...
UD's New Album - Travelling At Breakneck Speed
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Posts: 975Posted 14 years ago #Nice one OceanMan - and good to hear Diz has sorted you out. UD never let you down (just for the record the P also never let you down).
Just listening to it now...it shits all over the cd version (nothing new there though!).
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Posts: 3,255Posted 13 years ago #So, after listening to this album for nearly a year now, here's my "updated review" of the Traveling At Breakneck Speed:
This album has grown on me a LOT. I feel like it's their most cohesive album, and probably their best album. I feel like they basically took all the things that worked in their past albums, mixed them together, and pruned away the deadwood to make a really solid concept album.
You know how I just put up another thread on this forum about finding "perfect" or "event" albums? This is definitely one of them, and I'd put it on a desert island, "Top 5" list any day.
Even the worst tracks on past albums were miles above other artists, so don't think that I'm dissing them here, but:
Fresh Mode & Journey to Anywhere were still searching for cohesive-ness,
Taste the Secret was really skit-oriented/cartoon-y,
Bang For The Buck was them being more "serious",
and Audacity had a lot of singing and things.They all had their classic moments, but I feel like Breakneck is UD really finding that solid middle ground between everything I just mentioned, and the result sounds effortless and amazing. There are cartoonish skits, but they don't interrupt the flow, there is vocalizing but it doesn't detract from the flows, and there is the same degree of OOMPH that Bang for the Buck had... if not more.
There are some songs on the album ("One Horse Town", "Anything Can Happen", "Breakneck Theme") that I'm not as crazy about, but I think it's just personal preference, not a quality issue. I love the sampling in the chorus on "One Horse Town", but the "fiddlin' boy" storyline doesn't grab me like it probably should (same with the "I'm uncomfortable here" feeling on "Anything Can Happen"). I also feel like the "Einstein Buys A Monkey" track breaks the album's flow just a touch, but I like the new overlays Einstein added on top of the more basic version that was a bonus track on Audacity (Japanese release). My strangest relationship with a song on this album is with "How It Used To Be", 'cause I'm not sure I agree with the song's premise, but I still think it's one of standouts. Don't know how that logic works.
The highlights are pure gold. "Elevation", "Endless Summer", and "Sprint!" probably get the most play on my stereo, but I think that "Run For The Light" is one of their best story tracks ever. It's a spiritual sequel to "La Revolucion", but it blows it out of the water with the ending, which is so triumphant, it actually makes me want to run down the street and jump out of moving cars and sh*t. The first three tracks also shine, in my opinion, because they just set the premise for the album perfectly.
Anyway, thanks for reading. Just wanted to put it out there that, if you haven't gotten this album yet, get it and LISTEN TO IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH. Hiiiiiiiighly recommended.
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