new Thievery Corporation album has lots of conspiracy type songs

[cortez]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJqdHLx7qU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvqkDvv4mE&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gla16IDCzyY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmT_rqj2mEo&feature=related

sorry about non embedness. titles include: tower seven, false flag dub, overstand....

[cortez]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q5YgjQcsEY&feature=related

interview with rob and eric, the band

[cortez]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvRsn-5SqSA&feature=relmfu

LouLou :)

[Awoke]

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[cortez]

rad. cool :)

[AOW]

I dig the title track - Culture of Fear.

[vacuum]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gla16IDCzyY
The thought that they were thinking about building 7 when making this instrumental tickles me a little bit for some reason. Great music too.

[cortez]

The thought that they were thinking about building 7 when making this instrumental tickles me a little bit for some reason. Great music too.

funny , at first i was thinking oh is it like the 5th column??? totally forgot all about tower 7 ,just for a minute of course great music. this albumn and the last 'radio retaliation' has really been turning the screws a bit more

[keehah]

consequenceofsound.net/2011/07/album-review-thievery-corporation-culture-of-fear (http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/07/album-review-thievery-corporation-culture-of-fear/)
“Light Flares” is the jazz-fusion combo of minimalist drums and a groove that sets the stage for the grand, ambient sound to come. It’s like a futuristic rocket ship emerging from Earth’s orbit, ready to veer out into the optimistic darkness of the rest of the universe, before blasting off with a heavy, impassioned beat that hits hyperdrive through the remainder of the album. As cinematic as it is, the near-eight minute groove of “Tower Seven” blows it away. Like a dubstep/lounge/bossa nova reworking of some tune from 2001: A Space Odyssey, it’s infinitely large, a massive, sweeping effort that takes ambiance and rips from it any sense of wandering, instead instilling a sense of purpose and focus like nothing else out there. It’s a sci-fi theme of gargantuan scope, building on the basics of some new jazz hybrid. Additionally, it’s a journey to a new sector, one waiting to be terraformed with ideas and concepts for a better world, one that leaves behind childish notions of injustice and inequality.

This brave new world so beautifully and succinctly outlined by those two offerings is then enhanced with the album’s other tracks and their nods to moving beyond life’s problems through sheer force of will. The one-two punch of the title track and “Take My Soul” read like mission logs before the great journey outward. The title track is one of the more direct protest songs, but even it is built from the down-tempo funk of a man (the rhymes of guest rapper Mr. Lif) recognizing that the perpetuation of fear and ignorance may be unavoidable, as they’re essential parts of life on this rock. “Take My Soul” is slightly more hopeful, gearing toward some of the otherworldly sounds of “Tower Seven”, but still with a sense of desperation and confusion as the narrator (an especially haunting Loulou) is ready to leave it all behind.

It’s from that moment of sweet release that the rest of the album’s truly dazzling moments are built. Everything builds to “Tower Seven”, making the title track feel doubly heavy and important, making “Where It All Starts” and “Free” feel so rewarding and emotionally fulfilling. Once more featuring Loulou, “Where It All Starts” is the brightest burning moment of optimism on the record. It’s ambivalent and spacey, yet personal and intimate like a sweet whisper of something earnest. There’s also something sensual, even romantic to it, thanks to the rollicking jazz beat. This song produces the exact feeling that whatever is wrong is about to change. The details are shady, but the sentiment is too alluring to ignore.

[Santa]

Mmmm, tasty, especially the percussion.... Thanks.

[Gaillo]

Just bought this today. Played it through in the last hour or so... LOVING it! Only 2 songs on the album that I'm lukewarm about, the rest is typical Thievery Corporation awesomeness! Probably my 2nd favorite album of theirs, and I have them all at this point. "Radio Retaliation" is still my fave.