Track Listing

1. Brother
2. Steven Smith
3. Love, Love, Love
4. Basement Band Song
5. Sinking Hearts
6. A Sudden Death
7. There Is Nothing I Can Do
8. I Am Not Surprised
9. No One Has Ever Looked So Dead
10. Memorize The City
11. Instrumental

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99365 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-03
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

grab that gun
I first heard of the organ last December in an issue of Rocksound. Their first release, 'memorize the city', was described as a little known gem of 2005 and that this band would surely flourish in 2006. I decided to download the song, see if they lived up to this hype. From the very first listen, you can tell the organ have something new to offer the music industry. Their sound is like a sharper, more defined look on 80's rock, the end result being a mix between the cure and the yeah yeah yeah's. 'Memorize the city' has some amazing lyrics, and a great sound to match. My other favourite song is 'Brother', and although the songs have a familiar pang to them, they all differ enough to keep you interested. It's worth a listen, and I have a feeling these guys will be big in 2006.

Brillant Debut
This is a great debut album for fans of 80's new wave and post-punk, yet also has enough of a modern feel to entice fans of current alternative music. Imagine a hybrid of the cure, the smiths, joy division and blondie and you'll get get a good idea of the sound. I thoroughly recommend this album, and after catching them live last night I also recommend any seeing them on their current UK Tour, they are even better live. Standout tracks include the amazing "Brother" (check out that intro), "Steven Smith", "Sinking Hearts", "A Sudden Death" and "There is nothing I can do". A classic.

Sad girls playing sad songs
I picked this album up on a whim in the band's home town Vancouver last April. I'd read about them in rhapsodical articles in the local press and thought the Joy Division played by girls idea was intriguing. Upon listening to it in the record shop, I was instantly taken with the songs ultra-simple but all-enveloping 80's style arrangements and, moreover, Katie Sketch's maudlin, otherwordly vocals. Indeed, though the taut, angular, paranoid brilliance of her band make it unfair to sideline them, it really is Sketch who raises the band above mere imitation. If the album ever gets an official release over here (godammit, what's the hold up?), no doubt her combination of heart-on-sleeve melancholy and ingenious turn of phrase will inspire the same sort of cultish behaviour in her fans as those of Morrisey and Kirsten Hirsch, her most obvious forebears.

In fact, 'cult' pretty much sums up the whole of this album. Like with all great indie records, it's not 'perfect', and yet, somehow, there's nothing about it that could possibly be altered. It's a collection of songs to obsess over and listen to far too much, full of startling lyrics and subtly danceable music played by a band at their most intuitive and imaginative (in this respect they share just as much with Sleater-Kinney as they do with The Smiths or The Cure). Those who discover this album will cherish it.

It's been a slow burner with me, played sporadically over the last year without ever becoming a firm favourite, but now, all of a sudden, it makes perfect sense. The Organ are unshakably retro, but are too vital and sincere to be merely pastiche. Whatever the era, they're a great band, and this album, I suspect, is a cult classic in the making.