Continental

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0708527017425
Label: Darla
Manufacturer: Darla
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Darla
Release Date: 2007-07-16
Studio: Darla

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Customer reviews of Continental

Customer Rating:

Summary: A gem for your ambient mix!
Comment: I recently discoverted Robin Guthrie's work through his collaborations with Harold Budd (e.g., Mysterious Skin, Before the Day Breaks, After the Night Falls). I was surprised to learn that he was the creative force behind the Cocteau Twins for many years (See my review of The Moon and the Melodies). I subsequently purchased other Cocteau Twins works(Treasure, Lullabies to Violaine: Vol. I and Vol. II) and they are excellent. That brings me to the review of one of his solo work Continental. I like all of the tracks on this outstanding CD as it allows me to work, write, think and enjoy myself without having to pay direct attention to the structure of the melodies. While this is the primary reason that I like all amient music, I find that Guthrie's music, and the CD Continental, leaves me wanting more. Check out his other solo works, especially 3:19 Bande Originale Film.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Essential Robin Guthrie
Comment: Easy to see why Robin Guthrie's music is used in film. He has taken the guitar and created a cinematic orchestra with it. I love all of his recordings and this is one of the best. What's amazing is that more people don't know about this great artist. Everyone I play this for loves it and wants to know more about it.

Check out his work with Harlod Budd as well. Just wonderful sonic sculptures.

Peace,
Jimbo

Customer Rating:

Summary: great reading/relaxing music
Comment: Here are soaring, dreamy, melodyless instrumentals drenched reverb, seeping with ethereal mood, but pumping with rock that you can punch the air to. Basically it's the latest incarnation of shoegazer -- I am glad Guthrie and others are not allowing this noble genre to die. I have real trouble reading to music with words and cerebral melodies. I seek stuff like this to play as I read. If this kind of stuff becomes the elevator music of the century, I will love the time I spend in elevators. Lush textures, pleasingly longing intervals, warm,cold, clean, distorted and wailing. What a satisfying blend.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Great album
Comment: This is a great instrumental album by a great artist. Opening track "Continental" is a perfect introduction to what follows, building gradually into something very emotional. "Conquering the Romantic" brings back that good old Cocteau-style landscape sound. "Crescent" starts delicately and, as the title implies, becomes louder later on - I have to say I have mixed feelings about the finale, though. "Monument" is probably the best track of the album and one of the best songs ever IMHO. "Amphora" is a downbeat tune in which the best element is the guitar that comes in at the end. "The Day Star", similarly to "Crescent", builds into a louder sound - again, mixed feelings. It does provide an energy to the album, but it kinda breaks its otherwise linear soothing ambiance. "Radiance" is maybe my second favorite: beautiful intertwining guitar and bass arrangements. "As I Breathe" is another song featuring calmer and louder bits, but this time I think this device works better, perhaps because it comes and goes (some moments in this song remind me of "Four Calendar Café"-era Cocteau). "Last Exit" is nice: I see it as kind of a sister-song to "Amphora". The final track, "Pale", starts with eerie sounds and slowly brings more familiar sounds to Cocteau-trained ears, until becoming complex, a little Cure-like music (there is something here that reminds me of that Judge Dredd "Burn" song). All in all, this album has become my "residual" CD for more than three months now. Robin Guthrie is one of the few artists nowadays whose work I feel confident to purchase without hesitation.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Best of 2006: Dream Pop is alive and well
Comment: I loved Cocteau Twins. I loved Slowdive. I loved My Bloody Valentine. So what to do now they are gone? Love Robin Guthrie. Love Hammock. Love A Shoreline Dream. 2006 seems to be one of the best years ever for Dream Pop and Shoegazing music since the genres came to be, back in the eighties and nineties. And this album can be thanked for being a part of that.

Jumping between calm, lush guitarscapes and animated passages the album does more than fulfilling a need for more good music. Continental, by Cocteau Twins co-founder, Robin Guthrie, is a piece of music to live and dream by. It's become a permanent part of my bedtime routine, to help me calm the thoughts of my day and get me in the mood for dreaming. Happy to have learned about it, I have no doubt it's one of the best albums of 2006.

Editorial Reviews:

As COCTEAU TWINS guitarist and producer, Robin Guthrie is the man responsible for creating that famous sound and opening the door for My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, et al. Darla Records is very proud to offer Robin Guthrie's second instrumental album Continental. Dare I say... continental is Robin's strongest all-instrumental bliss out, or make out, record since Cocteau Twins. Robin gives more heart and soul on Continental than on his previous instrumental release Imperial. Continental is more focused, stronger in feeling, and in composition. Of course all of Robin's signature elements are here: Shimmering guitars, ethereal moods as fluid and deep as any of Eno's, and yes, he does at times thankfully bring the rock. The mood overall is classic Robin Guthrie. Fans of the Cocteau Twins and all they've spawned, please welcome back your daddy. This is the first of four new Robin Guthrie records for Darla. Robin's music is a treasure. He's one of the great all-time heroes of the current bliss pop generation, which includes Mahogany, Auburn Lull, Ulrich Schnauss, Manual, Sweet Trip, Windy & Carl, Landing, Aarktica, Yellow6, and many, many others.

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