Clor [Import]

Product Description
Features the album versions of 'Good Stuff', 'Outlines','Love Pain', 'Gifted', 'Magic Touch', 'Making You All Mine', plus the bonus tracks 'Transmutations' & 'You'll Change' and a CD extra 'Love Pain' available only on the this Japanese pressing. 13 tracks. EMI. 2005.

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Average customer rating: Clor Their Way To Greatness A buzzing debut! Fun experimental pop music for schizophrenics Your new favorite band - Electro Meets Rock Meets Power Punk

Clor Clor Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Field Music Less Than Human Broken Social Scene Z The Back Room ASIN: B0009Y33TC Release Date: 2005-08-01

Tracks:

1. Good Stuff
2. Outlines
3. Love + Pain
4. Hearts on Fire
5. Gifted
6. Stuck in a Tight Spot
7. Dangerzone
8. Magic Touch
9. Making You All Mine
10. Garden of Love
11. Goodbye

Customer Reviews:

Clor Their Way To Greatness.......2006-04-19

While it seems simultaneously absorbed and absurd to describe your debut album as "a flawless masterpiece of disassociated male sexuality and scientific investigation, set to irresistibly insistent tunes", Clor have certainly delivered a record that splices masculine frailty with songs aligned with glorious musical benchmarks from the 1980s.
On their eponymous debut these sons of Brixton have developed a pop sound that captures Duran Duran's synthesised savoir-faire and David Byrne's edgey allure. While the keyboards, electronic drumkits and special whiz-bang effects often descend into rather ropey realms on tracks such as Making You All Mine and Garden Of Love, it's little wonder considering Clor's guitarist Luke Smith previously wrote bleepy music for video games.
There's more to Clor than a whacked-out love of dressing up, hosting dinky DJ nights and capturing the spirit of Talking Heads on bedroom recordings though, with Love And Pain stretching the influences to include the exuberant pop of The New Pornographers, Gifted adding quality lyrics ("you were the brightest star in my firmament" wins the inaugural Lyric Of The Week competition) that will have Belle & Sebastian fearing redundancy and Dangerzone sounding like electro junkie Tiga covering The Flaming Lips. The mellow and wounded finale of Goodbye might sound like a sweet piece of Travis-style pop, but the lyrics such as "we crave red hot strangers" indicate it's actually a randy little number designed to pull the groupies. It seems like James Blunt isn't the only clever devil switched on to using fey melodies to pull the lassies. Clor blimey.

A buzzing debut!.......2006-01-06

Once upon a time, this was what indie sounded like, before everyone decided to go alternative; quirky, experimental, arty, sometimes atonal, yet you found yourself liking it for some strange reason.

Enter UK quintet Clor to take it back to the good old days. Their brilliant debut comprises buzzing, jittery electro rock. Case in point, the fab `Dangerzone' with its swirling synths.

There's the funky rocker `Magic touch' with faint Prince-like (`Kiss' especially) traces, electronic sound effects and faint distorted guitars buzzing in and out.

And the slow meandering electronic ballad `Goodbye'. Great vocals from Barry Dobbin.

Just a few highlights that potray the diversity of this buzzing debut!

Fun experimental pop.......2005-11-26

Clor fit in nicely with the whole art school thing, like a trendier Franz Ferdinand, far more electro. Angular guitars flick in and out, synths forming the main melodic backing to vocal lines that carry pretty strong melodies. The best examples are the two singles, "Love + Pain" and "Outlines", which are jerky electro-pop masterpieces. Clor draw on the obvious 80s influences, but also on Kraftwerk (particularly on "Dangerzone") and other recent experimentalists like the Super Furry Animals. It's inventive, bursting with energy and pop hooks, and good fun.

music for schizophrenics.......2005-08-25

despite sounding like something straight out of 1983, clor's debut album couldn't have happened any other time than now. it'd be easy to pigeonhole clor into the whole nu-wave revival with the bravery and the killers, but doing so would not only be a disservice to the band, but also to you the listener.

invoking everyone from devo, to dm, to gary numan, to kraftwerk, clor employs an powerpop/electropop punch, that despite the somewhat dated casio-keyboard sound, sounds fresh and vital. songs like 'outlines,' 'love & pain' and 'dangerzone' (no, not nicked from kenny loggins) are relentlessly experimental, yet never sacrifice craft and melody for said experimentation. barry dobbin's vocals bop and weave like muhammad ali--he's impossible to pin down, and that's a good thing. musically, clor is all over the map--there's not a stagnant moment on the album. bass lines, synth lines, and vocals are in constant motion, never holding a note, it seems, for more than a split second. at the end you'll probably be reaching for a bottle of advil from the musical blitzkrieg you've just experienced.

it's certainly not for everyone, but underneath all the madness (and it certainly is mad)are solid, interesting songs. in the end, clor are mad scientists, adding an arm here, an leg there, a new head, all the while creating something new, melodic, exciting and let's face it, plain old fun.

Your new favorite band - Electro Meets Rock Meets Power Punk.......2005-08-11

CLOR comes out of nowhere to produce one of the freshest, challenging, and just plain FUN albums of the year. Melding NYC no-wave rock with New Wave pop songcraft with Electro sonics with crunchy power-punk punch and signature UK nasal vocals, CLOR delivers a potent brew, recalling a wide range of past influences and references while managing to sound like no one else today. Key cuts LOVE & PAIN, MAGIC TOUCH, OUTLINES, and more tell the story. Try it, you'll like it. *Also hunt down the KRAFTWERK meets HERBERT remix by JOAKIM of MAGIC TOUCH on import CD single - absolute dancefloor mayhem!

Average customer rating:

Feel This D-ZL Manufacturer: Clor Records (unsigned artist) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000JC5F Release Date: 1999-01-15

Tracks:

1. Rise and Shine
2. : Spineless
3. : Confront Your Demons
4. : Bite Your Tongue
5. : Drive
6. : Fueled Intensity
7. : Pitbull
8. : Intro to Overcome
9. : Overcome
10. : The African Soupbone

Album Description

A powerfully groovin',in-your-face,bone crushin piece of ear candy.

Average customer rating:

Love + Pain Clor Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00081R7R0 Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks:

1. Love + Pain
2. You'll Change
3. Tough Love

Album Details

A Most Unusual Band with a Most Unusual Approach to Music. Think of the Energy of Gang of Four with the Sardonic Wit of Sparks and the Qurikiness of XTC. This is their Most Accessible Single Yet and it is Backed with a Couple of NON-LP B-sides.

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Outlines Clor Manufacturer: EMI/Regal UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0009VJWI6 Release Date: 2005-07-18

Tracks:

1. Outlines (Alan Moulder Mix)
2. Transmutations

Album Description

Part. 1 of this UK pressing features the title backed with the exclusive recording of 'Transmutations'. Regal. 2005.

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Good Stuff Clor Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000B9DAXO Release Date: 2005-10-17

Tracks:

1. Good Stuff
2. Dangerzone [Acid Workout]

Album Details

The Fourth Single and Opening Track of their Eponymous 2005 Debut Album.

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Outlines Clor Manufacturer: EMI/Regal UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0009UNB2A Release Date: 2005-07-26

Tracks:

1. Outlines
2. Transmutations
3. Outlines (A Film 84 Mix) (Fat Truckers/Dan Kahuna)
4. Outlines (Video)
5. Love + Pain (Video)

Album Description

Part. 2 of this UK pressing features the title track backed with the exclusive recording of 'Transmutations' & 'Outlines' (A Film 84 remix). Regal. 2005.

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Clor ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000CEWW8W Release Date: 2005-11-22

Album Description

Clor weld the relentless rhythmic pulse of a group like Can or Neu to the angularity of early Talking Heads and Eno. When thrown into a mix that feeds on deviant pop sensibility from the likes of early Roxy Music, Devo and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, what emerges is a sound as idiosyncratic as it is exploratory. EMI. 2005.

Average customer rating:

Clor Clor Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009XE8BU Release Date: 2005-08-22

Tracks:

1. Good Stuff
2. Outlines
3. Love + Pain
4. Hearts On Fire
5. Gifted
6. Stuck In A Tight Spot
7. Dangerzone
8. Magic Touch
9. Making You All Mine
10. Garden Of Love
11. Goodbye
12. Transmutations (Bonus Track)
13. You'll Change (Bonus Track)

Album Description

Features the album versions of 'Good Stuff', 'Outlines','Love Pain', 'Gifted', 'Magic Touch', 'Making You All Mine', plus the bonus tracks 'Transmutations' & 'You'll Change' and a CD extra 'Love Pain' available only on the this Japanese pressing. 13 tracks. EMI. 2005.

Album Details

The Japanese Edition of the Critically Acclaimed UK Band's Debut Album features Two Bonus Tracks Not Found on the UK Edition: "Transmutations" and "You'll Change". Clor Deliver Toe Tapping Tunes that have a Wildly Infectious Quality to Them. The Utilize the Relentless Rhythmic Pulse of a Progressive Rock Group Like Can Or Neu to the Angularity of Early Talking Heads and Brain Eno. Throw in the Pop Sensibilities of Early Roxy Music, Devo and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and What Emerges is a Sound that is as Idiosyncratic as it is Exploratory. Like Few Others, They Easily Cross the Bridge from Rock Into Electronica at Times Before You Can Even Realize that the Computers Are Fired Up.

Average customer rating:

Welcome Music Lovers Clor Manufacturer: EMI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00035WCP8

Tracks:

1. Good Stuff
2. Magic Touch
3. Making You All Mine
4. Gifted

Album Description

Schizoid electro rock via Brixton like Beefheart being dragged into a river by Devo. The band toured with Prodigy! This debut EP features 'Good Stuff', 'Magic Touch', 'Making You All Mine' & 'Gifted'. EMI. 2005.

Album Details

Reissue of the Group's Original Debut EP that Introduced their First Recordings to the World. Their Tunes Aren't Exactly Easy to Hear, as There is a Playful Deceptiveness of Melody and Some Dissonance. But their Energy is Invigorating and Catchy! Includes "Good Stuff", "Magic Touch", "Making You all Mine" and "Gifted".

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