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Track List
01) Pain Pain, Never Again
02) The World Is Yours
03) You
04) Shine Like Stars
05) Whatever Hurts You Through the Night
06) Stronger Than Dirt (Homosexuality, Part 2)
07) Dream Dream Dreaming
08) I Feel Wrong (Homosexuality, Part 1)
09) Euphoria, Take My Hand
10) Lots Sometimes
11) Change
01) Pain Pain, Never Again
02) The World Is Yours
03) You
04) Shine Like Stars
05) Whatever Hurts You Through the Night
06) Stronger Than Dirt (Homosexuality, Part 2)
07) Dream Dream Dreaming
08) I Feel Wrong (Homosexuality, Part 1)
09) Euphoria, Take My Hand
10) Lots Sometimes
11) Change
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4:29
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3:46
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4:33
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3:14
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First Released
2011
Indie
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Euphoric Heartbreak (stylized as EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\) is the second studio album by Scottish rock group Glasvegas, which was released on 4 April 2011 by Columbia Records. It reached No.10 in the UK and No.1 in Sweden. The album was written, demoed and tracked by James Allan in a luxury beach house in Santa Monica, California before full production and final recording took place in London and Glasgow. The album was produced by Flood and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer. The song "The World is Yours" features on EA Sports' FIFA 12. The album sold fifty thousand units, considerably fewer than their debut album. The muted commercial response supports the belief that indie rock music is enduring a "slow and painful death."
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Glasvegas first emerged in 2007 ticking many of the ‘big sounding’ indie band boxes: a gang of four working-class kids from Glasgow’s east end flaunting a woolly-mammoth-sized take on Jesus and Mary Chain scuzz and 60s girl-pop grandeur. Unlike the vast majority of their peers, however, this lot actually had something — the sound was authentically naive, brittle; the clunking bum-TISH rhythms and singer James Allan’s vocals betraying a strange vitality the rest could only dream of getting close to.
Since their self-titled 2008 debut it’s been far from plain sailing for the group, however. Drummer Caroline McKay has departed, to be replaced by Swede Jonna Löfgren, while James Allan reportedly overdosed on animal tranquiliser at the Coachella festival in 2009, also going AWOL for five days around the time of Mercury Prize ceremony of the same year.
Despite all the turbulence they’ve made it back for a second bout, and EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\ announces Glasvegas MkII as a somewhat different beast to its predecessor. U2 producer Flood marshals the band’s bulldozing energy into an altogether slicker sort of bombast, and admittedly there are moments (Dream Dream Dreaming and the seemingly endless build-up of Lots Sometimes) where the songs sound in danger of losing their way in the middle of it all.
Mainly, though, Glasvegas wear their professional makeover with surprising panache. Part of the credit for this belongs to new stickslady Löfgren, who brings complex accents to tracks like The World Is Yours: a star-spangled gallop whose electric whammies and crashing snares sound like Echo & The Bunnymen in their Killing Moon pomp.
But ultimately the record belongs again to James Allan, who brings all the right notes of toughness and vulnerability to Shine Like Stars’ Killers-ish synth-rock and the pounding, disconsolate You, a highlight which hot-wires the Doves template and plunges races it straight off the nearest available cliff. He also gives fuller rein to the lonesome upper registers of his voice on the majestic I Feel Wrong and Whatever Hurts You Through the Night’s exquisite, slow-motion heartbreak.
Put simply, you feel that every note is earned with this guy, and when he duets with his mum (seriously) on set closer Change you know that however much this album risks trading in on some of their native charm as a band, Glasvegas have come through admirably.
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Euphoric Heartbreak (stylized as EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\) is the second studio album by Scottish rock group Glasvegas, which was released on 4 April 2011 by Columbia Records. It reached No.10 in the UK and No.1 in Sweden. The album was written, demoed and tracked by James Allan in a luxury beach house in Santa Monica, California before full production and final recording took place in London and Glasgow. The album was produced by Flood and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer. The song "The World is Yours" features on EA Sports' FIFA 12. The album sold fifty thousand units, considerably fewer than their debut album. The muted commercial response supports the belief that indie rock music is enduring a "slow and painful death."
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Glasvegas first emerged in 2007 ticking many of the ‘big sounding’ indie band boxes: a gang of four working-class kids from Glasgow’s east end flaunting a woolly-mammoth-sized take on Jesus and Mary Chain scuzz and 60s girl-pop grandeur. Unlike the vast majority of their peers, however, this lot actually had something — the sound was authentically naive, brittle; the clunking bum-TISH rhythms and singer James Allan’s vocals betraying a strange vitality the rest could only dream of getting close to.
Since their self-titled 2008 debut it’s been far from plain sailing for the group, however. Drummer Caroline McKay has departed, to be replaced by Swede Jonna Löfgren, while James Allan reportedly overdosed on animal tranquiliser at the Coachella festival in 2009, also going AWOL for five days around the time of Mercury Prize ceremony of the same year.
Despite all the turbulence they’ve made it back for a second bout, and EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\ announces Glasvegas MkII as a somewhat different beast to its predecessor. U2 producer Flood marshals the band’s bulldozing energy into an altogether slicker sort of bombast, and admittedly there are moments (Dream Dream Dreaming and the seemingly endless build-up of Lots Sometimes) where the songs sound in danger of losing their way in the middle of it all.
Mainly, though, Glasvegas wear their professional makeover with surprising panache. Part of the credit for this belongs to new stickslady Löfgren, who brings complex accents to tracks like The World Is Yours: a star-spangled gallop whose electric whammies and crashing snares sound like Echo & The Bunnymen in their Killing Moon pomp.
But ultimately the record belongs again to James Allan, who brings all the right notes of toughness and vulnerability to Shine Like Stars’ Killers-ish synth-rock and the pounding, disconsolate You, a highlight which hot-wires the Doves template and plunges races it straight off the nearest available cliff. He also gives fuller rein to the lonesome upper registers of his voice on the majestic I Feel Wrong and Whatever Hurts You Through the Night’s exquisite, slow-motion heartbreak.
Put simply, you feel that every note is earned with this guy, and when he duets with his mum (seriously) on set closer Change you know that however much this album risks trading in on some of their native charm as a band, Glasvegas have come through admirably.
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