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Артист: Rockfour Альбом: Nationwide, 2004 Издатель: Rainbow Quartz / ES031 Жанр: Neo-Psychedelia Формат файла: eac-cue-log-wav-scans-iso-wv Ссылка: CD 41 clicks Нахождение: eDonkey/Kademlia

и действительно сууууперная группа!
спасибо taurus66 и друзьям остальным

Review by Richie Unterberger
Nationwide isn't too different from previous Rockfour releases, and it's still highly reminiscent of much late-'60s pop-psychedelia, usually of the British sort. That's okay -- when you do retro-indebted sounds as well as Rockfour does, the many spottable influences aren't a source of annoyance, as they are for such a high percentage of bands that take their cues from a prior era. It should be said that very few groups have done Beatlesesque (late-'60s period) harmonies as well as Rockfour (particularly on parts of "Nationwide"), and it's good news that so many of them are on this disc. If you want a more obscure reference point -- obscure to much of the general public, at any rate, if not the kind of hipped-in collectors predisposed to like a band such as Rockfour -- it's hard to imagine that anyone who likes the S.F. Sorrow-era Pretty Things won't like this, or like the haunting track "Candlelight," in particular. Something else that distinguishes the group from others with similar grounding -- and something that might find them some favor with critics and listeners who are usually dismissive of bands with these leanings -- is the rather tense, probing mood of many of their arrangements and lyrics, which stand in opposition to the too-cheerful inclinations of more power-poppish outfits. In a lighter vein, "Have a Good One" recalls the late-'60s Beatles in their mellower interludes, while "Moving Fast"'s drum sound convincingly emulates the most thwacking beats of The White Album. A few more standout tunes on the order of "Candlelight" would have gotten the band over the hump to a new level, but certainly it's a satisfying record.

TRACKLIST

1. Honey Rock Four. . . . . . . . .3:29  2. Nationwide Rock Four . . . . . .2:40  3. Next Monroe Rock Four. . . . . .4:24  4. Candlelight Rock Four. . . . . .2:46  5. To The End Rock Four . . . . . .3:40  6. Mad Routine Rock Four. . . . . .4:55  7. Have a Good One Rock Four. . . .2:52  8. You Said Rock Four . . . . . . .4:51  9. Fuzzy White Rock Four. . . . . .4:24 10. I Can Read You Now Rock Four . .4:21 11. Crush on Subtitles Rock Four . .4:17 12. Moving Fast Rock Four. . . . . .5:10 13. Much More to Offer Rock Four . .4:19

Excellent, June 13, 2004
By Rotem Eren Rabinovich (around)
"Nationwide" is a mature album of silly music by some serious guys dabbling in a silly genre- neo-psychadelic pop-rock. Though with more straightforward production than their previous English-language releases, it confronts the originality issues inherent in the genre (some songs on "Another Beginning" sounded a little TOO much like Lennon or Bowie) much better. The songwriting and overall creativity is almost on par with their 1994 Hebrew-language masterpiece, "H'Ish Sh'ra'ah H'Col" ("The Man Who Saw Everything", on which there is a somewhat superior Hebrew version of Nationwide's To The End), and the performances are the best they have ever been. I especially love hearing the rythym section- Issar Tennenbaum's Keith Moon school of drumming approach is a refreshing departure from the human drum machines of otherwise superlative bands such as Radiohead and Muse (not to mention the neo-pop-punk bands...), and Marc Lazare's bass notes are actually SURPRISING relative to what the guitar is playing.
The newest aspects of this album are how heavy Baruch Ben Izhak's guitars get on most songs, and the surprisingly beautiful gentle songs, Candlelight, Have A Good One, I Can Read You Now, and Much More To Offer. Though the Beatles are frequently and correctly sighted as an influence, the more proper touchstone for the first and last mentioned in the last sentence would have to be Brian Wilson's Smile sessions. Really something very special. Overall, the impression is of prime late-sixties, vaguely post-psychedelic pop, played with a contemporary heavy guitar sound and a much less naive sense of structure. The individual parts of Next Monroe or Mad Routine might have come from classic Beatles, Byrds, or Pink Floyd records (perhaps more accurately, from a fantasy record of The Who covering these songs), but the jumps between them are too surprising even for the deepest cavern of the summer of '68. This is ultimately also the band's failing- the sweet, simple pop components sometimes feel bullied by the air-tight riffs and hey-look-what-I-can-do transitions. But the soft songs are so beautiful, and the hardest rockers so satisfying- it feels unfair to ask more from a genuine 2004 psychadelic rock album.
One final note on Eli Lulai, singer extraordinaire: I personally can hear an accent (in case you didn't figure it out yet, these guys are Israeli- and ipso facto the cause of all the world's problems...), but I'm not sure if most English-speakers will not just take it as a weird inflection. At any rate, he's a great enough singer to make listening to otherwise decent modern pop-rockers such as Hot Hot Heat and The Shins difficult. He never sounds like he's straining while making weird key jumps, and, in the great tradition of Lennon's walrus concerns and the like, makes lines such as "an average looking girl could be the next Monroe" and "shaky, what a shaky end (subtitles!)" sound immensely important. Unfortunately, the lyrics aren't quite as good as in the Hebrew-language albums, but in general the quality of English-language rock lyrics is not at a particularly high point these days. And no, the Israeli trivia is not at all essential to enjoying this album. If these guys came out of Oxford, I'd love 'em just as much.

SPOILER!

EAC extraction logfile from 31. March 2008, 18:19 for CD Rockfour / Nationwide Used drive : BENQ DVD DD DW1640 Adapter: 2 ID: 1 Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache Read offset correction : 618 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Used output format : Internal WAV Routines 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo Other options : Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Installed external ASPI interface Range status and errors Selected range Filename D:\Rockfour - Nationwide.wav Peak level 99.8 % Range quality 100.0 % CRC 6FEE0557 Copy OK No errors occured End of status report

Hi OLCH

I like this one much more than "supermarket"
Thanks a lot.

А мне этот альбом не так понравился как предыдущие! Какой-то он попсовый...
Спасибо, всем за знакомство с этой группой!

Гордый

Мне ранние альбомы ,то же нравяться больше,вот больше и все тут.... ,но уважаемый мой друг,назвать это попсой..... ,честно скажи-ты его целиком послушал или по верхушкам пробежался ?
Послушай еще разок.

QUOTE (taurus66 @ 03-04-2008, 19:22)

Гордый Мне ранние альбомы ,то же нравяться больше,вот больше и все тут.... ,но уважаемый мой друг,назвать это попсой..... ,честно скажи-ты его целиком послушал или по верхушкам пробежался ? Послушай еще разок.

Многоуважаемый, taurus66!
1. Альбом попсовый и Попса, две большие разницы!
2. Послушал полностью!!! Не люблю я прыгать по трекам!
3. По сравнению с концертником, он действительно попсовый!

Гордый

О как вывернул..... ,заканчиваем дискуссию .
Пущай будет попсовым.

Я бы не сказал, что альбом попсовый. Да, он менее психоделический чем предыдущие, плюс саунд достаточно "стерильный", а предыдущие альбомы были записаны "грязно", как будто в 60е годы.
Я бы сказал что этот альбом более мягкий по звучанию, но попсовым я бы его не назвал.