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Plano
Release Date: 1998-08-11, Audio CD, Minty Fresh
- Price Range:$10.99 to $13.99 | 4 stores
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- Posted: Nov-16-2004
The best!
It's appropriate that the first song on this album is called "Chocolates" - it's sugary and sweet and oh so very nice...i read some critic describe this album as "crystalline pop".I happened upon Aluminum Group while I was working in Banana Republic - bored out of my mind, folding clothes - then...
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- Posted: Mar-22-2002
Clever Gay Lounge Pop
The Navin brothers have definitely studied hard at the school of pop. Lush, complex harmonies and inventive arrangements make this a must for anyone smitten with the charms of The Devine Comedy, Momus or Pulp at their most romantic.Fans of Jimmy Webb and Burt Bacharach's orchestrations will be...
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- Posted: Oct-27-2001
boys of modern class
plano is one brilliant album!from beginning to end, every song is thoughtful, provocative, and touching. "chocolates", "the mattachine society," and "9 months later" are brilliant tracks illustrating the group's ability to speak at several levels. the songs are both humourous and melancholy and...
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- Posted: Jul-28-2000
Wondrous ....
I immediately bought this CD after hearing "Angel on a Trampoline" (reminded me of a good Pulp song) on KCRW and was initially disappointed because the rest of the album didn't sound like this one song. However I quickly grew to appreciate the album as a whole. Songs like "Star Wish",...
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- Posted: Mar-05-2000
Very Recommended
Every track on this album is solid. I love the delivery of the vocals, and annunciation. Faves include "Storytime" and "Star Wish" and "Steam". I dont find it loungey or shlocky at all. I can hear the "Frazier Chorus" comparisons at times, but this is quality stuff.
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- Posted: Oct-12-1999
sometimes love means having to say "wow!"
This is super-cool music. The Aluminum Group will break your heart and move your soul. I wonder if we'll all look back and point to this album as the turning point for smart music. No, this isn't Tortoise (you can actually enjoy these songs) but it is Chicago music at its best (undefinable,...
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- Posted: Oct-09-1999
WARNING! Highly Addictive
Upon coming across "Plano," their 1st release on the very hit and miss Minty Fresh, I knew I was listening to one of my favorite bands of all time. Hearing Plano was like hearing the Blue Nile for the 1st time; that feeling of having been swept away by a lover who new exactly how to touch you....
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- Posted: Oct-09-1999
There are times when I wonder why I love music this is why
This is the future of American music: smooth, smart, sexy. This release by the Aluminum Group is all things to all people. This is the definition of Chicago music: intelligent, undefinable, unmarketable. Bravo Aluminum Group! Bravo! Viva Las Navins!
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- Posted: Sep-27-1999
Groundbreaking gay pop-angst from Middle America
Now that the Navin brothers have recorded a new album to distract me, I realize how groundbreaking "Plano" really was...What other band has written about class differences between gay suitors in the suburbs? Perhaps the Smiths, circa "Hatful of Hollow," but not as plaintively. Musically, it's...
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- Posted: Sep-05-1999
How much can you take!
How much lounge is too much lounge? I find the album excellent, but after five songs I feel my migraine coming on! I must relax with a hot bath and a strong cup of tea before I could hear the remaining five songs. I can't wait to hear what strong brew these witches will cook up next.
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