The Telescopes – Self-Titled
(Note: This article was written in 2008 for an old Blogspot music blog that I managed (flyingairplane.blogspot.com); meaning, I was 18 years old when I wrote this. The blog's format was such that each article contained a short “review” of an album and a download link to the full album (usually through Mediafire). Blogspot was a go-to source for obscure music back in 2008, with many blogs like this popping up with download links, and I wanted to be part of the illegal-music-download literati myself. Unfortunately, this blatant violation of copyright eventually caught up with the blog (and most others of its ilk) and got it removed from the Blogspot service entirely; however, the first page of the blog remains archived through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.)
This is going to be a very biased review, so be prepared: Probably one of the most beautiful albums I have ever heard in my life. There's no definition for what the Telescopes have done with their second album: The Telescopes. Obviously, they jumped the dream-pop bandwagon that was floating around at the time and developed it into something that was completely beyond anyone's expectations. From the opening track to the last track, this album is a beautiful piece of dreamy art. Who would have guessed that The Telescopes; the band that had just perviously released the incredibly abrasive almost non-listenable album Taste could have produced an album so perfect.
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