Black City by Burning Heart

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Black City

by Burning Heart

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Release Date:	2002-08-27
Label:	Burning Heart
UPC:	045778202225
Binding:	Audio CD
Published By:	Burning Heart
ASIN:	B000068CTF
Category:	Music

Tracks on Black City by Burning Heart

Need To Get Some
We've Been Planning This For Years
Number One
Trapped In
Access Identity
I Guess I'm Healed
The Truth Is Fucked
Black City
I Walk On Broken Glass
Second Rule Is
Pretty Electric
Wild and Crazy

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Album Description

The anticipated Burning Heart/Epitaph debut release from this new (2002) Swedish group born from the ashes of some of the country's best hardcore travelers. Twelve tight and solid retro-punk tracks rocked with dark atmospherics, lower anatomy rhythms, and a taste of sex. Charismatic, passionate and straight-up soul-sensual. Digipak.

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The best thing about the Hives' arrival is that it opened the gates for a slew of equally deserving Swedish bands, like political thrashers International Noise Conspiracy and psychedelic revivalists the Soundtrack of Our Lives. One of the finest of the lot is the Göteborg group Division of Laura Lee, a quartet of skaters whose fidgety debut mixes punk insurrection with hip-shaking garage rock. While sharing with its peers a preoccupation with the '60s, D.O.L.L. goes to great lengths to offer a record that not only sounds thoroughly modern (electronic effects crackle through songs like "Trapped In" and "I Walk on Broken Glass"), but is built on sparkling melodies ("Need to Get Some" and the title track), making it anything but ordinary. --Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews

Division Of Laura Lee "Black City" - Reviewed on 2004-03-18

1 customer found this review helpful, 2 did not.

"Need To Get Some" (5/5): A really rockin' opener.
"We've Been Planning This..." (5/5): This one keeps you jumpin'.
"Number One" (3/5): This one isn't amazing, but not bad at all.
"Trapped In" (4/5): A slow paced track that works really well.
"Access Identity" (5/5): A great riff drives this winner home.
"I Guess I'm Healed" (4/5): This song keeps the album going.
"The Truth Is F****d" (5/5): Another very powerful tune.
"Black City" (4/5): Nothing bad about this one, just not great.
"I Walk On Broken Glass" (2/5): The first just flat out bad song.
"Second Rule Is" (5/5): One of the best tracks follows the worst.
"Pretty Electric" (3/5): This one isn't memorable, but not bad.
"Wild And Crazy" (2/5): Just dissapointing noise.

Good songs... - Reviewed on 2003-10-19

1 customer found this review helpful, 1 did not.

I wasn't aware of Division of Laura Lee's Swedish citizenship when I first heard their music, and knowing that now makes more sense of their garage-like sound. I was expecting more of a punk-rock sound from this band, seeing as how they share the same label as Pennywise and NOFX. Their sound is pretty rock and roll, but in a more ...Trail of Dead, At the Drive-In way. If you like a heavier rock sound with a more moderate pace and stronger melody and clear vocals, you should like Division of Laura Lee.

DOLL kicks ass! - Reviewed on 2003-06-03

1 customer found this review not to be helpful.

Overall, I think this is one of the greatest rock groups coming up now and I hope they hit it big. Some of my favorite tracks are numbers 3,4,10, and 11. But the whole album is good! BUY IT!
...Anyway, buy this!!!!!

Buy this now - Reviewed on 2002-12-20

7 customers found this review helpful.

Division of Laura Lee are from Sweden and are therefore part of the 'Swedish Invasion,' but don't think this is a Hives knockoff or a (International) Noise Conspiracy retread. No, DOLL prefer to fuse their punk energy with red-blooded rock 'n' roll, new wave flourishes (in a good way), and in some cases a dark goth mentality.

This combination is sweet and intoxicating, like a perfectly blended screwdriver. Balls out rockers like the opener "Need to Get Some," "Access Identity," "Black City" and "Second Rule Is" rub elbows with ethereal slow-movers like the claustrophobically superb "Trapped In" and "I Walk on Broken Glass," but nothing feels forced or contrived. The rockers move and shake like nothing yet this year, and the slower songs give you a chance to breathe and think for a moment before your head gets rocked again.

This may be a bold statement, but here it is: DOLL are better than the Hives, and I love the Hives. Don't pass this up.

An album worth buying - Reviewed on 2002-12-04

1 customer found this review helpful, 1 did not.

With all of the hype around the Hives, Refused(R.I.P.) and International Noise Conspiracy you may think they were the only Sweeds worth checkin out. But oh how wrong you were. Division of Laura Lee's Black City is a good solid rock album comparible to early Jesus and Mary Chain and Pond. This is a wonderful record from begining to end & I strongly believe this is the best over looked album of 2002. Buy it.

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Book Subjects

Garage Punk
Indie Rock
Pop
Pop/Rock Music
Punk Revival
Rock
Rock/Pop