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Track Listing
1. Meds - (with Alison Mosshart)
2. Infra-Red
3. Drag
4. Space Monkey
5. Follow the Cops Back Home
6. Post Blue
7. Because I Want You
8. Blind
9. Lazarus
10. Broken Promise - (with Michael Stipe)
11. One of a Kind
12. Pierrot the Clown
13. Song to Say Goodbye
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Michael Stipe | | Producer: | Dimitri Tikovoi | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Placebo (Pop): Brian Molko.
Personnel: W.
Recording information: RAK Studios, London, England.
English rock outfit Placebo have earned themselves a cozy niche on the new millennium Britpop map with their combination of moody, edgy guitar sounds, post-grunge punch, and theatrical flair. MEDS, Placebo's fifth release, finds the band refining the best qualities of their previous albums into a stylish, streamlined whole that shows them moving forward and maturing.
"Fall Into You" blends punky energy with emo-tinged confessional expression, a sound that links Placebo to many early-2000s bands, but maintains a distinctive edge. Placebo know their rock history, drawing on driving post-punk a la Joy Division ("Song to Say Goodbye") and moody Cure-influenced tunes ("Follow the Cops Back Home"), but it's on nervous, anthemic rockers like "Infra-Red" that the band is at their best.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]he sound is neat, unblended Placebo, particularly on the stand-out track 'Infra-Red'...
3 stars out of 4 -- Brian Molko's witty self-deprecation and heartfelt choruses make for a stylized darkness with a power-pop spirit.
[T]his repaints Molko as a torch singer for the 21st century.
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