{"product_id":"again-again-1","title":"Again \u0026 Again","description":"Personnel: Andy Grier (vocals, guitar); Björn Berglund (keyboards, synthesizer); Pontus Berghe (drums, percussion).\u003cbr\u003eRecording information: Paris (2009-2010).\u003cbr\u003eThis is the second album from Thieves Like Us, a trio consisting of two expatriate Swedes and one expatriate American who met at a picnic in East Berlin and have never been able to settle down permanently in one place since. That fact might lead you to expect music with an unsettled feel and a wide variety of influences, but if anything, it suffers at times from a certain sameness of texture and flatness of affect. That's not to say that the music isn't attractive and even heartfelt -- just that there's an almost poker-faced feeling to many of the songs, and it sometimes creates a curious counterpoint to the old-school electro bounce on which they all tend to be built. Take, for example, the sprightly but strangely cool \"Never Known Love\" or the slow and virtually non-melodic \"Mercy.\" On the other hand, \"The Walk\" gives the proceedings a lift with synthesized harp glissandi and a gentle ska backbeat, and \"Lover Lover\" brings in an always welcome touch of cowbell. The album is packaged with a bonus disc of remixes, many of which emphasize the band's debt to 1980s synth pop (\"Hounds of Hate's Purple Stuff\" and \"Forget Me Not [Cécile's Small Town Girl Mix]\" both evoke New Order very explicitly) and some of which bring elements of reggae and dub to the proceedings. All in all it's a very enjoyable album, if at times a rather strange one. ~ Rick Anderson","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52092615852319,"sku":"3516628197529","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/e0437b410ff73444321792e832c080bb_6f07c895-5387-49e0-8e96-ac844bf790b2.jpg?v=1777873333","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/again-again-1","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}