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The
Agenda (2008)
ER CD-012
Track listing:
- Tomorrow's Too Late (3.19)
- Rockdad
(4.35)
- Hidebound
(4.49)
- Sandwich on Putney Bridge (4.53)
- Jessica's
Dream (4.56)
- Skinchange (4.09)
- Second Chance (4.38)
- The Agenda (6.56)
- Landed (4.44)
- Click Here (4.58)
- Vanilla Days (4.15)
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Notes:
Blue Flux's album The
Agenda hit
the racks in 2008 to set new standards for the band's expressive
songwriting skills and dedicated musicianship. And to prove once more
that nothing quite sounds like Blue Flux.
Following the album's foot-stomping opener Tomorrow's Too Late, the
bitter-sweet guitarbasher Rockdad
cuts to the chase – here the relentless culture cloning visited upon
once-smug parents by their retro-minded offspring. In its wake,
seemingly innocuous little twangers like Hidebound, Jessica's Dream and Sandwich on Putney Bridge soon
blossom into class A string-stranglers with a sting in the tail. Coming
up for air, and it's back down to the timely and cage-rattling title
track
– light and shade in a bottle. Rising from the deep, the
hauntingly atmospheric Skinchange
and Click Here waft forth,
ray-like, before a bubble-soft ride back to the surface astride the
life-affirming Vanilla Days.
Musically The
Agenda shows clear, well-polished links to recent Blue Flux
antecedents. Sparkling guitar riffs, atmospheric synth lines and the
odd chugging groove all help to expertly propel each song to its
destiny. The level of lyrical intensity however belies evolutionary
principles. It's the album's brand-new booster rocket that clearly sets
it apart from the Flux pack to date.
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