Yep Roc Records
2009
Communion
About This Album
Issuing a double album in the 21st century, with increasing industry focus on single tracks and ringtones, seems crazy at best, pretentious at worst. Communion, the fifth album by Gothenburg, Sweden's rock sextet the Soundtrack of Our Lives, proves that assertion to be dead wrong. This band has stubbornly followed an inner sense of direction that embraces paradox while using the very best of what rock & roll has to offer in order to create powerful music. Communion's 24 tracks are spread over two discs and its total playing time at over 90 minutes makes it longer than the Who's Quadrophenia or Pink Floyd's The Wall. Communion is a loosely based concept record. It addresses alienation and other difficulties of mass culture run amok with technological innovation, yet it unapologetically seeks -- and finds -- hope in the madness. Paradoxically, these songs all stand independently of one another, they aren't topically or musically heavy-handed, and most are catchy as all get out. They flit from hook-laden, psych-heavy guitar rock, a layered '60s-style uptempo pop that owes as much to Ray Davies and the Kinks, to the grandness of Arthur Lee and Love, as well as Townshend's gang, Syd Barret's Floyd, and the crunchy, soaring guitar rock of Television.
Track List

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