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The Sound the Speed the Light |  | Artist: Mission of Burma
Label: Matador Records
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Seller: newbury_comics
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 111536
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 10878
UPC: 744861087823
EAN: 0744861087823
ASIN: B002M9FYCQ
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | 1, 2, 3, Partyy! | | • | Possession | | • | Blunder | | • | Forget Yourself | | • | After The Rain | | • | SSL 83 | | • | One Day We Will Live There | | • | So Fuck It | | • | Feed | | • | Good Cheer | | • | Come Undone | | • | Slow Faucet |
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Product Description
MISSION OF BURMA's 4th LP is a departure from the pinned-needles roar of 2006's The Obliterati. Far more spacious and dynamic, it blasts off with the anthemic, catchy "1, 2, 3, Partyy!", a classic Burma rocker on a level with "This Is Not A Photograph" or "Certain Fate." Other tracks, such as "Feed,""Forget Yourself," and "Slow Faucet," are slow, hypnotic builders. "Good Cheer" is a burst of almost uncontainable joy that literally explodes from the speakers.
Album Description
MISSION OF BURMA is an American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979. They remain one of the most important American rock bands of the last 20 years. The band's new album 'The Sound The Speed The Light' is a departure from the pinned roar of 2006's 'The Obliterati'. Far more spacious and dynamic, it blasts off with the anthemic, catchy "1, 2, 3, Partyy!, a classic Burma rocker! Other tracks are slow, hypnotic builders, whilst others burst with uncontainable joy from the speakers. Of course, all the Burma trademarks are also present: the military snare drum, the melodic bass lines high up on the neck, and the furiously dissonant guitar work, refracted back into the songs via tape loops, all punctuated by the hoarse shouts of drummer Peter Prescott.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Boston legends back again. It's a good thing. November 12, 2009
Charlie Quaker (Normal, IL.)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Innovative & energetic Boston music legends bless us with their 5th album since 1982, guided by
dynamic, jerky post-punk rhythms that ride the edge of chaos with a controlled sense of melodic
urgency. These are neo-futuristic torn-curtain roars in the tense-but-graspable core of rock
music. Members have also played in Volcano Suns, Birdsongs Of the Mesozoic, Kustomized.
 Old School Mission of Burma October 15, 2009
P. Swinford (Northeast USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was first introduced to Mission of Burma in 1983 with Signals, Calls and Marches. My favorite cut was "That's When I Reach for My Revolver". MOB embodied what I love most about music - dissonance and beauty. Melodicism and Distortion. Their first full-length, Vs., remains one of my favorite albums of the era.
I found much to like with their comeback material, but both OnOffOn and The Obliterati were a bit bombastic for my taste. Oh, but The Sound The Speed The Light transports me to the days of Vs. The attitude is still rebelious, the musicianship edgey, but the band has slowed their hand just enough to allow the melodies and hooks to stand front and center, right where I like 'em.
There's a nice variety here - from the ballad-like "Feed" to the roaring "1,2,3, Partyy!" to the tough march of "Blunder" - MOB shows a sophisticated command of theory and cacophony.
MOB has gone back in time thirty years, and in the process proven that they're still lightyears and heads and shoulders above the current crop of proto-punk rockers.
Nancy Reagan's Head would Be Proud October 15, 2009
Kle Furre (Woodbridge, VA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Raised on a sugary diet of the Vandals, Descendents and the Misfits, I can't claim to have sophisticated musical tastes. But I know goodness when it strikes my ear drums, and Mission of Burma is goodness and then some. Never mind the fact their magic reached me only through the plastic-guitar conduit known as Rock Band. One time through That's When I Reach For My Revolver left me hooked and I haven't looked back, proudly adding digital copies of vs., Signals, Calls and Marches, ONoffON, The Obliterati, and The Horrible Truth About Burma to my distinguished music collection with a vague sense of accomplishment. No one will laugh at my music now that Mission of Burma is there to class things up! Well, you can still laugh, it's okay.
But I digress. Think of how high I jumped out of my office chair at work to discover on Wikipedia that Mission of Burma was releasing another album! (It was only about an inch or so). I downloaded The Sound, The Speed, The Light the moment it was downloadable - or several minutes later - and braced myself for the inevitable: the first listen through any Burma album is like a first date with a badger at your favorite diner. The badger is kinda ornery, steals all your disco fries, and has an oddly musky smell. But then, when you think you've been had, the badger busts out their Diner's Card and pays for the whole meal - and orders you more disco fries to replace the ones they snarfed! Plus they slip you some smokes.
The Sound, The Speed, The Light is exactly like that. At first listen-through, it underwhelmed me. By the third and fourth times, I was picking my favorite tracks and thanking my Lucky Charms these guys had come out of retirement and had the good sense to buy me more fries - I mean songs. Good Cheer, So F**k It and One Day We Will Live there will put the zing back in your zag, After the Rain and Feed will make you weep yourself into a mid-afternoon nap, 123Party!! will make you smirk that smirk you get when you - finally! - have an inside joke to laugh about, and Slow Faucet will teach you a little something about the special sadness you get from being the last song on an album.
Hopefully, Burma's long-anticipated country album will soon be in the works, and failing that, they can go on tour again. If they're not already there! Gotta go!
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