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title: "Athlete"
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# Athlete

> Athlete-Singles_01-10-(Limited_Edition)-2CD-2010-SiRE Artist: Athlete Title: Singles...

**Athlete-Singles_01-10-(Limited_Edition)-2CD-2010-SiRE**

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**Artist**: Athlete **Title**: Singles 01-10 **Label**: EMI **Genre**: Rock **Bitrate**: VBRkbit . **Time**: 02:09:55 **Size**: 188.56 mb **Rip Date**: 2010-09-25 **Str Date**: 2010-09-27

**Track List: --------** Disc 1/2:

01. El Salvador 3:26 02. Beautiful 3:47 03. Wires 4:20 04. Hurricane 3:16 05. You Got The Style 3:28 06. Half Light 3:41 07. Superhuman Touch 3:58 08. Tourist 3:58 09. Twenty Four Hours 5:05 10. The Outsiders 5:22 11. Black Swan Song 4:49 12. Tokyo 3:34 13. The Getaway 4:35 14. Westside 4:04 15. Back Track 4:31 ** Track List: --------** Disc 2/2:

01. A Few Differences 1:59 02. Stand In The Sun 4:55 03. Summer Sun 4:45 04. Loose Change 2:41 05. You Got The Style (Weevil Remix) 3:31 06. Corner Of My Baby's Eyes 5:10 07. Hurricaned (Dub Mix) 3:22 08. Best Not To Think About It 4:03 09. Forest Fire 3:33 10. Accidents Happen 4:14 11. With You I Never Lose 4:57 12. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 3:34 13. Wild Wolves 3:02 14. Lay Your Head 4:56 15. Shades On 4:38 16. Never Running Out 4:26 17. Plain English 4:15

**Release Notes:**

Much maligned by critics and connoisseurs alike, Athlete have always been subject to a certain degree of snobbery when it comes to their music. Since the start of their career in 1999, despite a Mercury Music Prize nomination and an Ivor Novello Award in 2006 or perhaps because of these things the Deptford quartet have struggled to turn their commercial success into critical acclaim. Instead, after the release of first album, Vehicles & Animals, they found themselves lumped in with the numerous purveyors of British mediocrity Turin Brakes, Starsailor, Keane et al and have struggled to break free ever since. Its easy to see how that happened. The catchy, hook-filled Youve Got the Style aside, the three other songs from that first album included on this retrospective El Salvador, Beautiful and Westside do little more than confirm Athletes place amongst the slurry of dreary indie-pop that the UK seems so fond of producing. These songs are not awful, but do sit quite happily alongside those other bland, middle-of-the-road bands. Yet, when the band released second album, Tourist, there was a slight shift. They embraced their mainstream, commercially viable status and used it to somehow craft an album that, actually, was a remarkable improvement on their debut. Wires and Tourist, for example, are both fragile lullabies that glow with a previously unheard soulful tenderness. The anthemic torch-bearing of Half Light and Twenty Four Hours might have been aimed for the top of the charts (where this album debuted on its week of release), but theres nothing wrong with that if its done, as it is here, with passion and a sense of integrity. From their next two albums, the shimmering, spectral, almost Radiohead-esqe lament of The Outsiders stands out on this collection, while Black Swan Songs gently-plodding balladry is genuinely affecting. On the flipside, though, the disco bounce of Superhuman Touch and the Nintendo musicality of new song Back Track fall flat. Still, this compilation is evidence that Athlete probably deserve more credit than they often get, that their repertoire is more than just a few diamonds in the rough. Theyre certainly not a groundbreaking band, but, as even the second disc of B sides and oddsnsods demonstrates, their ability to write an uplifting, life-affirming tune is a skill that should not be undermined or overlooked. Limited edition including a bonus CD of what I think are b-sides. Track 15 of CD1 is previously unreleased. Enjoy!

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