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Track List
01) Choices
02) Bumpy Ride
03) Who Said Anything (About Falling in Love)?
04) Unlikely Hero
05) Lovers in My Head
06) Live by the Ocean
07) Devil's in the Detail
08) Glorious
09) Made to Measure
10) Giddy Up
11) Sarajevo
12) Little Brutes
01) Choices
02) Bumpy Ride
03) Who Said Anything (About Falling in Love)?
04) Unlikely Hero
05) Lovers in My Head
06) Live by the Ocean
07) Devil's in the Detail
08) Glorious
09) Made to Measure
10) Giddy Up
11) Sarajevo
12) Little Brutes
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4:46
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2:59
5:44
3:21
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First Released
2010
Pop-Rock
Gritty
Rock/Pop
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The Illusion of Safety is the second album released by the London based indie pop band The Hoosiers. It was released in the UK on 16 August 2010 and is preceded by the lead single, "Choices" which was released on 1 August 2010. The second single to be lifted from the album was originally expected to be "Unlikely Hero", but Irwin has stated on the Hoosiers' Twitter feed that this plan has been changed, and stated that the band "will let you know what soon."
The album was not as successful as the bands 2007 debut album, The Trick to Life, which peaked at #1 on the UK Albums Chart. The Illusion of Safety did however managed to debut at #10. As of 11 April 2011, it has sold 25,872 copies in the UK.
The writing for The Illusion of Safety began after the success of the band's debut album, The Trick to Life which was released in 2007. The band was one of 2007's best known bands in the UK with the success of the singles "Goodbye Mr. A" and "Worried About Ray". The Illusion of Safety was released three years later.
The band recorded the album in various locations. The first single to be lifted from the album, "Choices" was released on 1 August 2010.
The Illusion of Safety only made a chart appearance in the band's native United Kingdom, debuting at number ten on the UK Album Charts, lower than expected.
User Album Review
The Hoosiers once coined the phrase “odd pop” to describe their sound, but the only odd thing about this second album seems to be its lack of relation to current pop trends. Instead it succeeds, like its predecessor, 2007’s The Trick to Life, thanks to straight-laced, fashion-resistant GMTV pop-rock.
In more hip-conscious hands, their songs would be smothered in Auto-Tuned electronic vocals, RnB beats and the sonic frills of the hip hop producer du jour. But The Hoosiers don’t need to try that hard. They know their genuine, unpretentious love of an air-punching pop anthem will always bubble to the surface.
So it proves with the opening tracks. Choices is an irrepressible piece of pop songcraft. Driven by a fizzy, staccato synth riff, it’s like Alphabeat never happened. Howard Jones could have come out with this in his prime, but who cares? This kind of summery, girl-meets-boy radio fodder never really dates.
Bumpy Ride sounds like it has been teleported from the same irony-free era. The synth stabs and Gillette-the-best-a-man-can-get chorus could be the soundtrack to a Hollywood action blockbuster in 1985. But in The Hoosiers’ world, it’ll always be alright on Saturday night, if you hold me tight – and if that sounds too cheesy for words, go and buy a Cribs album.
Admittedly, sometimes they sound like they’re making it up as they go along. “We’re better together,” Irwin Sparkes hollers on Made to Measure, “you and I we were meant forever / Don’t get hurt by upsetters, you and I we were made to measure. Oooooh oooooh…”
Hmmm. Yet when they attempt something a bit more critically correct, it’s a little too studied to convince. Devil’s in the Details incorporates the kind of unorthodox arrangements beloved of broadsheet rock writers and Thom Yorke, in the shape of skittering beats, plaintive vocals and something resembling a glockenspiel. But apologising for being pop doesn’t really suit them.
Thankfully, they rarely bother. The Scissor Sisters strut of Giddy Up plunges us straight back into woah-oh arena pop territory where, once again, resistance is futile. And when you’ve got so many hits waiting to happen, ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
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The Illusion of Safety is the second album released by the London based indie pop band The Hoosiers. It was released in the UK on 16 August 2010 and is preceded by the lead single, "Choices" which was released on 1 August 2010. The second single to be lifted from the album was originally expected to be "Unlikely Hero", but Irwin has stated on the Hoosiers' Twitter feed that this plan has been changed, and stated that the band "will let you know what soon."
The album was not as successful as the bands 2007 debut album, The Trick to Life, which peaked at #1 on the UK Albums Chart. The Illusion of Safety did however managed to debut at #10. As of 11 April 2011, it has sold 25,872 copies in the UK.
The writing for The Illusion of Safety began after the success of the band's debut album, The Trick to Life which was released in 2007. The band was one of 2007's best known bands in the UK with the success of the singles "Goodbye Mr. A" and "Worried About Ray". The Illusion of Safety was released three years later.
The band recorded the album in various locations. The first single to be lifted from the album, "Choices" was released on 1 August 2010.
The Illusion of Safety only made a chart appearance in the band's native United Kingdom, debuting at number ten on the UK Album Charts, lower than expected.
User Album Review
The Hoosiers once coined the phrase “odd pop” to describe their sound, but the only odd thing about this second album seems to be its lack of relation to current pop trends. Instead it succeeds, like its predecessor, 2007’s The Trick to Life, thanks to straight-laced, fashion-resistant GMTV pop-rock.
In more hip-conscious hands, their songs would be smothered in Auto-Tuned electronic vocals, RnB beats and the sonic frills of the hip hop producer du jour. But The Hoosiers don’t need to try that hard. They know their genuine, unpretentious love of an air-punching pop anthem will always bubble to the surface.
So it proves with the opening tracks. Choices is an irrepressible piece of pop songcraft. Driven by a fizzy, staccato synth riff, it’s like Alphabeat never happened. Howard Jones could have come out with this in his prime, but who cares? This kind of summery, girl-meets-boy radio fodder never really dates.
Bumpy Ride sounds like it has been teleported from the same irony-free era. The synth stabs and Gillette-the-best-a-man-can-get chorus could be the soundtrack to a Hollywood action blockbuster in 1985. But in The Hoosiers’ world, it’ll always be alright on Saturday night, if you hold me tight – and if that sounds too cheesy for words, go and buy a Cribs album.
Admittedly, sometimes they sound like they’re making it up as they go along. “We’re better together,” Irwin Sparkes hollers on Made to Measure, “you and I we were meant forever / Don’t get hurt by upsetters, you and I we were made to measure. Oooooh oooooh…”
Hmmm. Yet when they attempt something a bit more critically correct, it’s a little too studied to convince. Devil’s in the Details incorporates the kind of unorthodox arrangements beloved of broadsheet rock writers and Thom Yorke, in the shape of skittering beats, plaintive vocals and something resembling a glockenspiel. But apologising for being pop doesn’t really suit them.
Thankfully, they rarely bother. The Scissor Sisters strut of Giddy Up plunges us straight back into woah-oh arena pop territory where, once again, resistance is futile. And when you’ve got so many hits waiting to happen, ridicule is nothing to be scared of.
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