Modern English “After the Snow (Live from Indigo @ O2)”

sfilzen — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:20:23 +0000

Modern English “After the Snow (Live from Indigo @ O2)” 2021. Mesh & Lace Recordings. Recorded live just about two years ago, on September 18th, 2020 in London during the height of the pandemic. So it is not a concert recording but rather a livestream event (with a VIP “Virtual Meet & Greet” option for an extra $75. Ugh). There is also a DVD of the performance with interviews in between each song. Modern English had planned a 40 year anniversary tour to happen in 2020 which was obviously canceled. As part of that anniversary tour they intended to perform their massively successful 1982 release After the Snow from start to finish. So this release was the compromise (and they are currently on that rescheduled tour).

It’s an excellent live version of After the Snow but it does not feel live at all – this is great in some ways because the sound quality is close to perfect. But it really doesn’t feel much different from the original ’82 release, maybe less of that 80’s production sound. Some songs feel a little sadder “Dawn Chorus” in particular) but overall it’s still bright meets dark new wave that pairs with an 80’s anthemic vibe. My top tracks are identical to the original LP’s: “Someone’s Calling,” “Face of Wood,” “Life in the Gladhouse” and the title track “After the Snow.” And of course there’s the iconic 80’s song “Melt With You” which actually does slightly different than the original single, which hit #7 in the US and continues to be popular 40 years later.

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Modern English “After the Snow”

sfilzen — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:20:58 +0000

Modern English “After the Snow” 1982. Later this week we are going to the Retro Futura concert at Wisconsin State Fair which will feature Modern English along with other 80′s new wave acts English Beat (I’m particularly excited about that one), Men Without Hats, Howard Jones, Paul Young, and Katrina and the Waves. After the Snow is Modern English’s second release and features the monster smash “I Melt With You,” the most pop-orientated track on the album, along with two other singles: “Life in the Gladhouse,” a vaguely dark synth pop track with powerful tribal drums, and my favorite from the LP “Someone’s Calling,” which is also touched with shadowy romance yet still totally danceable. Overall the album is really quite good – a lot of sophisticated post punk beats and melodies (“Face of Wood” takes its sweet time to develop, as does the stark, slow burning “Dawn Chorus”). The title track, “After the Snow,” blends acoustic and electric jangly guitar and creates a dynamic tension between varying rhythms and vocal intensities (the good old “loud-quiet-loud” song structure). The album – and the title track in particular – does not feel at all dated the way that many 80′s productions do.

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Modern English “After the Snow (Live from Indigo @ O2)”

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