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Dead Media
by: Hefner

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0644918011521
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Limited Edition
Label: Too Pure
Manufacturer: Too Pure
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Too Pure
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Studio: Too Pure
Sales Rank: 76167

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Dead Media is Hefner's fifth album in four years. They have slowed down, become a little less awkward and angry since their abrasive embryonic stages as South England's answer to Pavement on 1998's Breaking God's Heart. The hooks and smart words are still in much evidence, though--as the snappy, analogue synthesizer-led "When the Angels Play Their Drum Machines" and their melancholy tribute to the fourth astronaut to walk on the moon "Alan Bean" proves. The quartet may be prolific, but there's certainly no diluting the quality. Darren Hayman still has a way of singing so plaintively as to break your heart, and the music is now a gentle hybrid of Joe Meek, early electronic pop pioneers Daniel Miller's Silicon Teens, someone all alt. country and soulful (Giant Sand, say) and something else altogether. This is an understated gem. --Everett True

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- Hefner coat their indie sound in synthesizer silk
Hefner's fourth studio album in as many years is the first to make a major departure from their original guitar led sound, and is all the better for it. In all honesty, the excellent and varied We Love The City had taken that path as far as it could go, providing their most accessible and pop moment to date. The only thing wrong with that marvellous LP was that - if you had the previous ones - you could hear some of the songs being repeated, albeit with different instrumentation and lyrics. Dead Media is laden with keyboards and synthesizers, and this change of tack has helped reintroduce originality to Darren Hayman's songwriting.

In many ways, Dead Media is most closely related to Hefner's debut EP, The Hefner Heart, than anything ... Read More:

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- Oh dear... Dying band...?
Having produced three stunning albums (Breaking God's Heart, Fidelity Wars, Boxing Hefner), the last Hefner album was a disappointment, musically ok, but lyrically insipid. So with baited breath I hoped the new album would see a return to form; in some ways it does. There are some great songs on here: Peppermint Taste, Alan Bean, the Nights Are Long are all up there with past Hefner. However, that's about as far as it goes. One worrying warning sign is that the best song lyrically is actually an old song many fans will have heard live: China Crisis. Worse, much of the album is ruined by cheesy electro-pop music. Now I've nothing against synths (I'm a Numan fan for starters!), but parts of this sound like they've been lifted from old Doctor Who ... Read More:

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- Experimental Hefner at their best?
2000's We Love the City is perhaps the best place to become acquainted with Hefner. With this album we have perfection. From there we go back one year to the almost perfect The Fidelity Wars. Before that came the largely experimental Breaking God's Heart, an album which is not what one may consider as up to their usual high standards. But we won't hold that against them - this was, afterall, Hefner finding their feet.

With Dead Media we are back to the experimental; the beginnings of a more electronic Hefner, and with one foul swoop we're also back to the standard, and inconsistency of Breaking God's Heart. It's a shame this should be so, since Hefner have proved they can produce excellence throughout in We Love the City.

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