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Alternative Press
April, 2002
After a long absence from recording, Jim and Alison make their mark with a melancholic masterwork.
As though waking from a dream in which the Cure, the Sundays and Angelo
Badalamenti become as one, Cranes have emerged from an extended absensce
with their best album to date. Reveries of lost and future loves remain
central themes, but Alison and Jim Shaw have eschewed the industrial grunge
clatter of previous releases for a seductivley somber and subdued landscape
that ideally suits her babydoll vocals. With three bonus tracks not
available on the British release, Future Songs will amaze the faithful and
change the minds of anyone who thought cranes were just a fringe band
destined for oblivion. 9/10.
Reviewed by Mark Burbey
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