| Apocalypso |  | Artist: The Presets
Label: Modular Interscope
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 712744
Media: LP Record
UPC: 602517775398
EAN: 0602517775398
ASIN: B001AZ8BI2
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Kicking & Screaming | | • | My People | | • | A New Sky | | • | This Boy's in Love | | • | Yippiyo-Ay | | • | Talk Like That | | • | Eucalyptus | | • | If I Know You | | • | Together | | • | Aeons | | • | Anywhere |
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Album Description
Japanese pressing includes bonus material. Universal. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 ARIA winners! October 20, 2008
The Presets won 3 Aria's last night in the following categories:
1. ALBUM OF THE YEAR
2. BEST GROUP
3. BEST DANCE RELEASE
Read more @ http://www.ariaawards.com.au/news.php but if you didn't see the show you missed out on their amazing live act. I want a headdress like the drummer's for halloween!!!! This group is really popular with young Australians - My People!
Presets! at the Disco October 16, 2008
Having been a raving fan of this develish duo for several years, and having seen their evolution from bedroom rockers to international dance acclaim, I was very keen to get my hands on their sophomore effort.
At first listen however, I was panicking that the Presets had sold their electro souls to ensure dance chart success. It seemed every track on Apocalypso was unashamdely directed towards the dancefloor.
Yet after reading several interviews with the band, it became clear just how much they have both become raving ravers due to their incessant touring in nightclubs around the world. This has greatly affected the way they write and produce their brand of music. After I understood this ethos, I could easily appreciate this effort and the sheer quality of each track.
Julian's voice especially stands out on several of the tracks as he uses more of his unique vocal style to lead the tracks. The production and instrumentation is once again a cut above anything else I've heard in the electro-alternative realm.
If you're an early presets fan, give this a spin and some room to grow, and at the very least put it on at your next party. If you're new to the Presets, you're in for one hell of a ride.
 weak effort October 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
loved Beams, was very excited to get this. 'If I Know You' is a very lovely song, but the rest of it is pretty forgettable, and tracks 3, 4, and 5 work the same exact riff...huh? The lead singer's overwrought bombast seems like a weak Depeche Mode ripoff ('Talk Like That'), and his yodelly yawp gets tired. It works great on 'If I know You', very passionate, but not so much anywhere else. Where Beams was incredibly diverse , and full of hooks, this is fully of lazy synth lines, generic drum machine plonk, and little else. oh well.
Great album, but Beams is better July 10, 2008
The first time i heard The Presets was on a music channel shortly before Beams was released, it was the then current single - Are You The One?
Purchasing their debut album Beams, it delivered exactly what i was looking for... thundering electro mixed with some low-key tracks and instrumentals.
For this reason i rate Beams as being better than Apocalypso. It is more varied - while Apocalypso has it's non-dancey tracks, they don't seem to equal the tracks from Beams. Some could see this as a progression from their first album but i feel like they have lost a bit of the variety they used to have, instead focusing on the more danceable side of their music.
Apocalypso is a great album and it's far more easily accessed than Beams. From the very start with Kicking and Screaming it smashes its way through your head and assaults your eardrums in a flurry of distortion and thumping percussion, only breifly alleviated by tracks like Aeons and If I Know You.
This album is perfect for those who love a good slice of rough electro,
however i feel it lacks the depth and diversity displayed on Beams.
Better than their first album... but different. June 15, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Presets- clever, fresh, fun, danceable, smart music with some good edges you can wrap your ears around. If you liked their first album, you'll probably like this one too- I actually find this one has more listenable tracks. But it's darker, you might call it gothic synth-pop. Which is cool, it's in a genre all it's own. All my friends dig it and say "where do you find all these cool tunes?" But my friends are kind of douchebags so forget about them. Anyway, this is a rockin album. Check it out.
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