Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #227159 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-22
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.co.uk
Dead Media is Hefner's fifth album in four years. They have slowed down, become a little less awkward and angry since their abrasive embryonic stages as South England's answer to Pavement on 1998's Breaking God's Heart. The hooks and smart words are still in much evidence, though--as the snappy, analogue synthesizer-led "When the Angels Play Their Drum Machines" and their melancholy tribute to the fourth astronaut to walk on the moon "Alan Bean" proves. The quartet may be prolific, but there's certainly no diluting the quality. Darren Hayman still has a way of singing so plaintively as to break your heart, and the music is now a gentle hybrid of Joe Meek, early electronic pop pioneers Daniel Miller's Silicon Teens, someone all alt. country and soulful (Giant Sand, say) and something else altogether. This is an understated gem. --Everett True

Album Description
Japanese version featuring a bonus track

Album Details
Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track