A Dream in Sound by Elf Power

A Dream in Sound

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A Dream in Sound

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Audio CD (May 11, 1999)

Original Release Date: August 10, 1999

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Arena Rock

Reader Reviews
With this 1999 release Elf Power have an interestingly detailed and certainly bold, albeit cloying record. Most of the time, Andrew Rieger (vocals) is content to whimper in a syrupy, Jeff Buckley's-sickly-little-brother-with-asthma falsetto, though his voice would hold pitch better and soar beautifully if he'd breathe better and project more. I realise that he does this on purpose as a matter of aesthetics, but he sounds a bit like the Prince of Swamp Castle in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. The guitars tend to slip beneathe the drums and layers of atmosphere in places, and it detracts from the band's sonic profile. The melodies wander to and fro from sweetly catchy to grating, the latter of which is made worse by Rieger's aforementioned vocal tendencies. The keyboards tend to be a bit annoying and garishly stark. Certain moments conjure the impression of cheesy christmas themes. It seems that every other song on ADIS is either interestingly catchy and fey (Will My Feet Still Carry Me Home, Jane, We Dream In Sound, the Well, Simon, O What A Beautiful Dream) or embarrasingly sappy and juvenile (High Atop the Silver Branches, Olde Tyme Wayes, Carnival, Noble Experiment, etc.) It's like a giddy Radiohead hosting a daytime children's show on public television in the late 1970's.

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