Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: APCD-029
- Format: CD
- UPC: 829750002924
- Street Date: 04/01/08
- PreBook Date: 01/01/01
- Label: Aporia Records »
- Genre: Pop/Rock
- Run Time: 40:11 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2008
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: WORLD EX CA
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Coast - Expatriate
Reverb-soaked guitars create an opaque air to complement shoegaze-influenced squeals and snare-heavy percussion.
- List Price: $13.99
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There is a refreshingly direct element to The Coast. Yes, their pop songs are radio-friendly and geared for overly emotional teenagers, but there is an unavoidable charm to frontman Ben Spurrʼs hopelessly sincere, quivering vocal lines. Reverb-soaked guitars create an opaque air to complement shoegaze-influenced six-string squeals and snare-heavy percussion. There is an undeniable sense of the epic in each of the albumʼs songs; the tracks are exceptionally layered, a mess of hazy instrumentation that culminates in luscious pop grandeur. With that sense of dense songwriting, The Coast dips their pop into various subgenres: the aforementioned shoegaze comes through on tracks like “Ceremony Guns”, whereas “Tightrope” is pure pop rock. Tokyo Police Club is written all over the infectious, single-worthy “Nueva York”, while “The Moon Is Dead” emphasizes the noodling, near-math rock guitar effects of groups like British Sea Power. Wrapped together, the album is surprisingly versatile, both mastering a sense of stark emptiness and overpowering apexes. Expatriate received resounding praise from national Canadian magazines, universally lauded for its versatility, energy and strong songwriting.
