 Brooklyn has been spewing out genre-bending bands for some time now, and The More Escapes is the latest one jumping out at us. They have decided to run with what they do best, to what is purest to them, with no consideration on how to best "impress" the listener, or for that matter, the industry. Yet they manage to do exactly that.
I suppose you could break out a bunch of adjectives to describe the coalition of songs on 11 Hope. I'll leave that up to the listener. I will say it's rare to hear music as art. A film score without a film, that's seed is whatever the artist was feeling at that moment in time. Not often do we hear the actual mixing process being as musical and important as it is here. Which leaves me to believe that time itself is an important ingredient.
But the most important ingredient here?
Undoubtedly....passion.
Syd Barrett would approve
Reviewer: Jason Ferguson
The past few weeks have been Earth shattering in the world of music. Both the sad and sublime. Heroic and mundane. The past few weeks have seen the passing of the legendary Syd Barrett. A true visionary and member of the music revolution that was Pink Floyd in the days before their journey to the dark side of the moon. Did he die from diabetes? Or from a broken heart? The past few weeks have also seen the release of Paris Hilton's new album. A firm indicator that the music industry has truly failed and forsaken us all, in lieu of an easy profit. 60 is too young to die. If only he had lived a little bit longer, he could have heard the redemption and
resurrection of musicianship in the music world: The More Escapes new album "11 Hope." He could have heard one of the most cohesive bodies of work ever recorded. Ripe with honesty,
The More Escapes paints a dream that melts into your ears and
dilates you pupils from the inside out. This is the latest effort from a band, now reunited after a long hiatus, which never actually broke up, and in all true
reality never existed in the first place. The story of the band is filled with love, anger,
dichotomy, and sweetest venom in truth. Every last bit of which comes through in the songs from start to finish. From the opening count off harmony to the acoustic serenity of the end, 11 Hope takes the listener on a trip through the joyful sorrow of love lost, found, embraced with febrile hands and released with reluctant arms. Con's unyieldingly imaginative music carries with it Sir's brutally beautiful honesty in words, as Joel's astoundingly musical drumming lays a ground work for Science's bass which rings in your ears like a low church bell
becoming you to funerals and weddings, alike. As the album progresses the ebb and flow of this truly amazing concept album can be felt in every pore as it saturates the listener with sounds both familiar and alien. Pulling you down into an undertow of emotion and making you beg to be drowned
father, only as it brings you up for the sweetest air you've ever breathed in your entire life. 11 Hope gives us all hope. Hope that the musical efforts of past generations still lives within us all. Hope that truth and beauty aren't just catch phrases to see cosmetics. Hope that we all live beyond the mortal coil and that music can cure our sickness and hurt. I'm sure, had he lived to hear the fruits of his children, Syd would have approved!
Contact: Serena Jones, 917-318-9841,
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The More Escapes Release Their Sophomore Album
Brooklyn, NY - July 26, 2006
The More Escapes
c/o Serena Jones
177 N 8th St #3L
Brooklyn NY 11211
www.themoreescapes.com
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