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bbc.co.uk - 'This is a self assured, beautiful and understated album. I only hope that their success is huge but doesn't stop them from making such fantastic music in the future.
?Love Life? - The beautiful new DOUBLE album from Irish band The Tycho Brahe
Dublin trio The Tycho Brahe (Donal O Mahony, Diarmuid MacDiarmada, Carol Keogh) return with the double album Love Life, a sprawling, vivid record.
Spilling over with a huge relish for everything life has to offer and positively radiant with musical ideas, it is the most thrillingly eclectic, surprising and life-affirming record you will hear this year.
?Or, to be exact, the two most life-affirming records - for with Love Life, The Tycho Brahe have become the first Irish BAND ever to release a double studio album (ie: not including live material).
It was recorded by writers/producers/multi-instrumentalists Donal O?Mahony and Diarmuid Mac Diarmada, who with this album confirm their growing reputation as the most musically literate and endlessly inventive songwriter/producers in the country. Their fearless eclecticism and seemingly bottomless supply of musical ideas (a nod to Eno here, a bit of XTC there, a touch of Baba Maal for good measure) are augmented by the singular gifts of writer/singer/lyricist Carol Keogh, whose matchless vocal performances, courageous employment of emotional detail and crystalline, highly poetic use of language are found here at their most heart-stoppingly sublime.
Together, the threesome have become the most formidable and unpredictable songwriting team to emerge from this country in decades.
Want examples? Hold on tight for the breathless, life-embracing rush of ?Steel Wheels?, which hitches Fleetwood Mac?s classic-pop sensibilities to New Order?s relentless, pneumatic sonic attack. Prepare to swoon breathlessly at the vaulting melodies and sheer lifeforce of ?Defiance?, an unforgettable anthem for everyone who has ever said ?I can?t go on,? and gone on. Link arms and head into the unknown with the summery paean to friendship and adventure that is ?Lucky The Bee?. And not least, prepare to be utterly gobsmacked by the swinging, irresistible Fela-Kuti-meets-Phil-Lynott block party of ?Golden Wedding?, whose unique clamour of noises and ideas renders it a true modern classic.
Being a double album as it is, that?s not even the half of it. There?s the dark-hued and glittering creep-hop of ?Bird Alone?; and the My Bloody Valentine cacophony of tender family portrait and heartfelt life-lesson ?My Father The Jeweller?. And, eh, utter indescribable weirdness, confirming that the Tychos? deranged sense of fun remains in ?Own Universe? featuring bells, whistles and Muppet noises.
And there?s much, much more besides.
Love Life ? as much as you possibly can.
Official website - http://www.thetychobrahe.com/
Official email - info@thetychobrahe.com
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Product Details
- Artist
- Tycho Brahe
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Label / Studio
- INDEPENDENT
- Number of Discs
- 2
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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CD1: Love
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Steel Wheels
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Defiance
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Quake Into the Stereo
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Safe and Sound
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Imprint
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Bird Alone
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My Father the Jeweller
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Out of the Blue
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It's Not That Unusual
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Solitary Refinement
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Bit By Bit
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At the Pipes
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CD2: Life
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Made in the Fire
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Spike and the Wheel
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The Sun King
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Golden Wedding
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Good Grief
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Baal (Creep and I)
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The Missing
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Own Universe
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Lucky the Bee
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Lost in Europe
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Courtesy for Boys and Girls
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