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| With the Tides | 
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| Artist: South
Label: Sanctuary
Category: Music
List Price: $30.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 217856
Format: Enhanced, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5050159024827
ASIN: B0001EMVXO
Publication Date: 2004
Release Date: March 29, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Motiveless Crime | | • | Colours in Waves | | • | Loosen Your Hold | | • | Natural Disasters | | • | Fragile Day | | • | Nine Lives | | • | Same Old Story | | • | Mend These Trends | | • | Silver Sun | | • | Straight Lines to Bad Lands | | • | What I Find | | • | Threadbare |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Details
Produced by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Ash, Idlewild). Captures the Raw Energy of their Live Shows While Condensing it all Into 12 Tracks of Timeless Pop.
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| Customer Reviews:
Mend those "Trends November 18, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The atmospheric, sweeping sound of South's "With the Tides" is hard to take in at one sitting. It's thoughtful, pensive and a bit dismal, and slowly strips itself away to show the Brit-rockers' maturation as musicians. It's a bit darker and more stripped down than their debut, and has its passion welling up through the cracks.
It starts off with the solid mixture of rippling sound and sharp percussion in "Motiveless Crime." Then it shifts into two main types of music: the thunderstorm rock of "Colours in Crime" and "Natural Disasters," and the rich, eerie pop of "Loosen Your Hold" and "Nine Lives." The songs tend to blend more orchestral music with solid Brit-rock.
Things take a slightly different, less organic direction with the shimmering, plaintive pop of "Silver Sun," mellow electronica-rock, and surreal, compelling "Straight Lines to Badlines." After the gentle melody of "What I Find," South explodes into a whirlwind of sound with "Threadbare," full of howling, sweeping distortion that builds steadily to a crescendo.
South straddles the line between dreampop and the Stone Roses, which sounds like a disaster in the making. But it's not. "With the Tides" is quietly moody, thoughtful, with a vaguely rainy tone. It's not terribly catchy either, and it loses some of that Stone Roses vibe of "From Here On In." Instead, South goes for the atmospheric sound, keeping their textured riffs and complex instrumentation, but weaving the threads in a totally new pattern.
Obviously it's got the usual rock mix -- percussion, guitar, bass, and keyboards. And they do wonderful things with them, blending electronic flourishes in with their more stripped-down guitar rock. But they also give extra depth to their music by weaving in some orchestral grandeur, such as a harpsichord and string accompaniment.
Joel Cadbury's vocals have lost some of their laddish quality. He doesn't sound like a pub-crawler here, but lost and wounded. And there's a similar feel to the songwriting itself. It's very melancholy, but edged with a sort of forlorn optimism: "From this fear there may come light/stretch me out over this divide."
South dodges the sophomore slump with the polished, compelling "With the Tides." Don't expect a carbon copy of their first album -- just expect a rich mix of the majestic and the mournful.
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