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Rating: After listening to "Exit Planet Dust" to exhaustion, which still sounds new today. After giving away "Dig Your Own Hole" because I couldn't stand it, with "Black Rockin' Beats", I find myself taken in by the video of "Star Guitar" in a store, a train journey with the scenery changing to the sound of music. Perfect video and song.
But then I listen to it on CD, amused by the ping-pong ball introducing the song, tac-ta-tac, then replaced by the drums, a second of wonder, but the scenery is gone and the song doesn’t render the same as before. The other morning I only woke up when "It Began in Africa" started playing; in my sleep, I liked it, but listening to it now, it doesn’t convince me. Nothing on this album convinces me, it’s formally beautiful, impeccable, with deep bass entering on hi-hats that go quickly on their own, but there isn’t a single song that makes me want to dig into the pile of CDs and play it right away, feel the need for.
The only thing that sticks with me for a short while is "The Test" where Richard Ashcroft sings, in a song that perhaps should have represented the evolution that the Verve could have taken, reminding me of "It’s All in the Mind". The first or second single. But even this doesn’t compel me to go searching for the album in the pile, even though when it plays, it's "quite impressive".
Then Beth Orton sings in "The State We’re In", a hippie song, I expect to hear “hey now what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going down”. 'Hippiedom' initiated with "Private Psychedelic Reel" (Dig Your Own Hole) where the hippie of Mercury Rev, Jonathan Donahue, sang. But more can be done with her voice. Sure, it has light parts that revolve, like the thing in "The State…".
Nothing remains with me from this album, though listening to it in the background at a bar would be pleasant. Respect, but nothing more than that.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Come With Us (04:57)
Come with us
And leave your Earth behind
Bright and clear
We see the light
All universes at your side!
Please lead us to other suns' warm light
Behold
They're coming back
Behold
They're coming back
They're coming back
They're coming back
They're coming back
They're coming back
Come with us...
05 Hoops (06:31)
Here I go round again again again...
Think that I'll never come down again again again...
07 The State We're In (06:26)
I've been workin' baby for too long now
Just wanna get next to you boy
I've been searchin' baby, a way to tell you how
Gotta get through to you boy
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
All of the time, all of the time, all of the time
You took it all of the time
There's no escaping now
Let me show you how
What it feels to be true
I've been workin' baby for too long now
Just wanna get next to you boy
I've been searchin' baby, a way to tell you how
Gotta get through to you boy
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
All of the time, all of the time, all of the time
You took it all of the time
There's no escaping now
Let me show you how
What it feels to be true
There's no escaping now
Let me show you how
What it feels to be true
I've been workin' baby for too long now
I've been searchin' baby, a way to tell you how
10 The Test (07:46)
O-o-o-o-oh
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
yeeeh
Am I coming through?
Am I coming through?
Is this sweet and pure and true?
Devil came by this morning,
Said he had
Something to show me
I was looking like I've never seen a face before
Here we go now, let's slide into the open door
Pictures and things that I've done before
Circling around me,
Out here on the floor
I'm dreaming this and I'm dreaming that
Regretting nothing
Think about that
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon
Yeah I'm shining
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon
Lord, I'm shining
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
You know I almost lost my mind
I can't explain
Where I've been
You know I've almost lost my mind
I can't explain
Where I've been
You know I almost lost my mind
I couldn't explain
What I've seen
Im happy now to have seen it
To find that the images are fading away
I'm seeing waves breaking forms to my horizon
Yeah I'm shining
I'm seeing waves breaking forms to my horizon, lord
I'm shining yeah
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
You know I almost lost my mind
I can't explain
Where I've been
You know I almost lost my mind
I couldn't explain
The things I've seen
But now I think I see the light
Now I think I see the light
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon
Yeah I'm shining
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon, lord
I'm shining
Oh are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you
Oh are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
(Repeat)
You know I almost lost my mind
Now I'm home, and I'm free
Did I pass the acid test?
Did I pass the acid test?
(Repeat)
You'd better go to bed now
(Repeat)
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By Rivo
Aside from the poor "It Began In Africa," the album is good.
It’s not love, but it’s a nice album. Get my drift?
By PortoFolio
It’s impossible to resist these two geniuses, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons.
What is present in Come with Us is a melting pot of emotions, rhythms, and sounds that get stuck in your head.
By Jack_85
A work crafted down to the finest details.
Join them and let yourself be carried away by the music that only they know how to create.
