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Life Is Short the Answer's Long [Digipak] by The Beat Escape (CD, 2018)

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Artist: The Beat Escape. Title: Life Is Short the Answer's Long. Edition: Album. Format: CD. 1: Sign of Age. Style: Electronic. Release Year: 2018. Condition: New.

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelBella Union

UPC5414940010176

eBay Product ID (ePID)20050149728

Product Key Features

Release Year2018

FormatCD

GenreElectronic

Run Time45 Mins 53 Seconds

ArtistThe Beat Escape

Release TitleLife Is Short the Answer's Long [Digipak]

Additional Product Features

DistributionThe Orchard Records

Country/Region of ManufactureUSA

Number of Discs1

Additional informationPersonnel: Yasmine Ixe (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Jori Hulkkonen. Recording information: The Emerald Motel; The Estérel Tiki Lounge. Photographer: Jordan Weitzman. Addy Weitzman and Patrick A. Boivin are masters of elegant minimalist electronic pop, layering lush synth pads and tasteful dark-toned guitar parts over spare pulsing beats. The two Montreal-based musicians began writing and recording together as the Beat Escape in 2015, signing with U.K. favorite Bella Union the following year to release their eponymous debut EP. It was a brief two-track sampling of their capabilities, which are fully explored here on Life Is Short the Answer's Long, the duo's first full-length release. Subtlety and mood-setting mark the Beat Escape's bailiwick as they move slowly across the landscape, building faint dramas and understated emotional peaks. The band's affection for vintage eras of new wave, electronic, and Krautrock is apparent throughout the nine lengthy tracks, most of which clock in over the five-minute mark. Opener "Sign of Age" blows in mercurially like a rain cloud, offering its hypnotic rhythms to the duo's austere vocal refrain of "Words are for nothing." "Moon in Aquarius" is a similar mix of spectral and engaging, with warm melodic leads floating in and out of the frame amid the rich harmonies. While not a wild departure from their inspirational sources, Weitzman and Boivin have a wonderful command over this particular branch of pop and they've written a collection of songs that live very comfortably in their own skin, which isn't as simple a task as one would think. ~ Timothy Monger