This is for Selekta.com. It's unedited. Excuse the dust as my writing is rusty. I know it's not "detroit"...but I do know this album was discussed here when it came out.
In that regard, it's taken me a while to get the courage to post it here. i wear a helmet. d Telefon Tel Aviv Map of What is Effortless Hefty With their first record, 2002's Farhenheit Fair Enough, Joshua Eustas and Charles Cooper created a loyal fan base through touring and implementing the most useful instrument to any artist; word of mouth. Telefon Tel Aviv's elegant complexities of brash electronics combined with the duo's guitar and piano ambience came at a perfect time when down tempo was becoming predictable and the popular IDM sounds from the West Coast were slowly fading. Farhenheit's orchestrations allowed the listener to assign their own emotions, making it the foreplay to their most recent endeavor. With their recent album, Map of What is Effortless, Eustas and Cooper mark their return with a palate that is significantly stronger and more assertive via forceful guitar chords and the addition of voice. If Fahrenheit Fair Enough was indeed their foreplay, than Map of What is Effortless is clearly TTA's attempt to finish what they started. The vocals of Damon Aaron and Lindsay Anderson leave no question that TTA is ready to present a more visible and wider range of emotional highs and lows alongside their instrumental speak. The gentile creativity of Farhenheit still looms, however the duo explores more raw, frontal sounds as with, "What it is Without the Hand that Wields It", a track that is closer to shadows of Aphex Twin than the TTA previously known. The layers of heart wrenching simplistic guitar strokes, computerized crunches and dramatic vocals of 'What it was will never again' perfectly summarizes this album's overall strengths in an audio and characteristic context. The obvious audience favorite will be Effortless' first single, 'My Week Beats Your Year.' It's clap ridden rhythm back dropped into Anderson's popishly seductive vocals are enough to move hips and turn the heads of the music elite all in one spin. However, the dance fever of the single should not cloud what Eustas and Cooper are doing on the rest of this album. There is an obvious map of human emotion being drawn here; one that is much more dramatic, blatant and accessible than that of Fahrenheit's. Sequentially laid out, the listener is lead to an emotional direction that is still left for them to conclude; it truly is what the album calls itself. As with any achieved successor, Map of What is Effortless takes the duo in a new and challenging path of keeping the auditory satisfaction interesting. If this is the temperate foreplay's follow through, than Telefon Tel Aviv's love affair with us has just began. ===== push the button:http://photos.yahoo.com/dianalynn80 (YahooIM:dianalynn80::aolIM:pottsdia) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
