Product Description

'Do You Like Rock Music' is the third album by Brighton-based indie rockers British Sea Power. A thrilling mixture of classic, Pixies-esque indie and the bombast of Arcade Fire, this album will be a big hit with fans of either band. Includes the single 'Waving Flags'.

Track Listing

1. All In It
2. Lights Out For Darker Skies
3. No Lucifer
4. Waving Flags
5. Canvey Island
6. Down On The Ground
7. Trip Out
8. Great Skua
9. Atom
10. No Need To Cry
11. Open The Door
12. We Close Our Eyes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #389 in Music
• Released on: 2008-01-14
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Since forming in 2000, Brighton renegades British Sea Power have firmly stomped their own path. Whether dressing up as 1930s Boy Scouts on stage, walking through their audiences beating drums or exploring the peripheries of rock music (as on their first two albums 2003's The Decline Of British Sea Power and 2005's Open Season) they have honed a style that's all their own. Do You Like Rock Music? sees the band continue their uniquely exploratory approach. Enlisting producers Efrim Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and Graham Sutton (Jarvis Cocker), the band seem even more determined in their effort to create something adventurous. But despite these veteran helping hands and the towering, oppressive atmospheres that mark the introductory songs on the album--all pounding drums, bleak rockscapes and chanting choruses--this is a deceptively accessible record. Tunes like "Atom" and "Down on the Ground"--both heard last on the band's Krankenhaus EP)--are full of edgy BSP bombast; but Arcade Fire-esque opener "All in It," the shoegazery "Canvey Island," "Great Skua,"--and especially "Waving Flags"--are stadium-sized songs to wave your lighter around to. Then again, BSP playing it safe is still a much more convincing--not to mention entertaining--proposition than many of their conformist contemporaries. Rollickin' stuff. --Danny McKenna

Customer Reviews

Yes I do
The riffs come from the annuls of rock history but the slant that British Sea Power put on their music sounds fresh and exhilarating. The chorus for "Lights out for Darker Skies," engages you, the breakdown is elegant and poised. There is an anthemic quality to this record, the way the ghostly effects marry the tracks together. You get the lost in the all-encompassing whirl of, "Waving Flags." It dovetails nicely into the wonderful sprawl of Canvey Island." "A trip out," stands out for the pulsating drive of its chorus. It's typical of the album. British in it's sound and execution but not falling into the usual hackneyed stereotypes of most British acts
The Great Skua showcases this groups capacity for sensitivity without the need for words - a truly outstanding piece of music. "No need to cry" is beautifully understated, languid. The music on this record conjures up visions of endless seascapes and barren landscapes.
What excites me about this band is that they are getting better - there's the intelligence there to come up with something different each time. An absolutely essential purchase

Decent Raw Rock
Intelligent literate rock from this Brighton outfit that seems to be sufficiently different from the mainstream to warrant further investigation.

I always measure the success of a true rock album by the feeling I'm left with as the final track comes to en end. A good album will leave you with a feeling that you have heard something worthwhile and want to listen again and that's the case with BSP's most powerful album to date.
Of course there are lows. BSP aren't sufficiently rounded to produce a faultless album. What they do is inherit a middle ground between the best Brit rock bands and the plethora of also rans.

The album opens with a the semi instrumental All In It which sounds like a southern Coral. It gives way to a series of solid rock offerings of which the pick is undoubtedly Waving Flags which I am reliably informed is their hymn of welcome to immigrants. It certainly has an anthemic feel to it and that's one of BSP's great attributes, their ability to fill a room and a song with sound. At times they remind me of that excellent Liverpudlian band Icicle Works and their lead singer Ian McNabb. Canvey Island is an interesting song. Overall this is a nicely rounded album

Life enhancing indeed
British Sea Power have created a sprawling, anthemic masterpiece that welds together rock influences from every era and yet is distinctively their own. You can't help but play 'spot the likeness' through hints of The Jam, Morrissey, early Floyd, and ooh who does this remind me of... It's accessible enough on first hearing to draw in fans of Coldplay or Snow Patrol, but with enough depth, enough grit to grow in stature over repeated listens and crucially the band's indie credentials appeal to hipsters who wouldn't be seen dead with 'X&Y'. Their lyrical concerns - celebration of Eastern European immigrants; environmental apocalypse; light pollution - are hardly mainstream, pretentious even, but they are allied with big soaring choruses and epic driving riffs, resulting in crowd swaying, epic, festival headed populism.

In the gospel according to BSP, 'Rock' is "anything that's good, life enhancing. It's stuff that makes you forget about the little things in life". "It started off as a drunken game...""It seemed like a good idea at the time. I'm not so sure if it is now." Maybe, but you passed the test lads.