Peter_Bjorn_And_John-Living_Things-2009-404

ARTiST: Peter Bjorn & John
ALBUM: Living Things
BiTRATE: 180kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL:
GENRE: Alt. Rock
SiZE: 64.08 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 47min 16sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-03-27
STORE DATE: 2009-00-00

Track List:
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01. The feeling 3:07
02. It Don't Move Me 3:22
03. Just The Past 5:12
04. Nothing To Worry About 2:58
05. I'm Losing My Mind 3:44
06. Living Thing 4:39
07. I Want You 3:39
08. Lay It Down 3:28
09. Stay This Way 4:21
10. Blue Period Picasso 4:36
11. 4 Out Of 5 4:08
12. Last Night 4:02

Release Notes:
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Peter Bjorn and John are the Swedish trio that released a certain single called
'Young Folks' in 2006, the one with the inimitable whistling intro and shuffling
drums and the huge chorus which was so clever and tongue in cheek but at the
same time so simple, personal and direct and universal that it won over
listeners across the world, got covered by the varied likes of Nena and Kanye
West, and even showed up on the zeitgeist-defining Gossip Girl. The accompanying
album, Writer's Block, was a heart melting collection of 11 perfectly formed pop
classics which went on to become an indie hit. What you may not have heard is
their more experimental side. As befitting a band comprising a 'hardcore fusion'
obsessive (John) and jazz-pianist (Bjorn) in their ranks, there has always been
a wilder, more playful undertow bubbling away just beneath the shiny pop
surface. Just look at Seaside Rock, their limited edition, low-key 2008 release
which was pretty much the polar opposite of Writer's Block: mostly instrumental,
and filled with beautiful, sparse elegies to their isolated childhoods. Which
brings us neatly to Living Thing, their follow up to Writer's Block proper.
There was always going to be chatter as to how Peter Bjorn and John would follow
up a pop phenomenon. Would they try to replicate their earlier success? Or go
out of their way to release a wilfully difficult new album? In actual fact, what
they have done is a bit of both - and neither--all at the same time. Bolstered
by the band's production, the first taster of the album, 'Lay it Down', which
snuck out onto the blogosphere at the end of 2008, was a delightfully off-kilter
riposte, a jaunty flying-V in the faces of people who thought they'd had the
band all figured out, with a harsh, treated vocal lifelessly intoning the
threatening refrain before abruptly giving way to an anthemic, full-bodied
singalong, the sort which will send the masses scurrying to any self-respecting
dancefloor on a Saturday night. The rest of the album walks a similar tightrope
of melody and mayhem. Living Thing pulses with life, it is bursting at the seams
with energy and vitality, and shot through with warmth and excitement and wonder