Beat, by Chris Knox

Beat

by Chris Knox

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1.	It's Love 02:34	buy track
2.	The Man In The Crowd 03:55	buy track
3.	My Only Friend 04:18	buy track
4.	The Hell Of It 03:56	buy track
5.	When I Have Left This Mortal Coil 03:16	buy track
6.	Everyone's Cool 03:36	buy track
7.	The Pulse Below The Ear 03:07	buy track
8.	What Do We Do With Love 03:50	buy track
9.	I Wanna Look Like Darcy Clay 03:09	buy track
10.	Denial Song 03:45	buy track
11.	Becoming Something Other 05:05	buy track
12.	Ghost 06:26	buy track
13.	Laughter 23:58	buy track

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"Coming after the relative indulgences of his last solo album, Yes!!, and the last Tall Dwarfs' effort, Beat is a direct, cohesive and thankfully less self-conscious affair. Throughout it's highly pop-infectious on the fuzzy likes of the lyrically sweet and sour What Do With Love?, the yelping Denial Song, and the bubblegum electropop of opener It's Love.

But there's many an affecting moment here, too. Like the sweetly devotional My Only Friend (a relative of his earlier love song Not Given Lightly), the mortality-contemplating This Mortal Coil and Becoming Something Other, a lyrically disarming dirge which addresses the recent passing of his father.

Elsewhere Knox offers the worryingly titled throwaway I Wanna Look Like Darcy Clay, gets in some brass backing on The Hell Of It and the Lust For Life-grooved Ghost.

Widening musical horizons show in the last of the 13 tracks, Laughter, a song of limpid melody showing a hitherto undetected influence on this first-generation Kiwi punk-rocker - Bach.

As its cover shows, Beat is an album with heart. Which makes it quite the best thing Knox has done in ages."

4/5 Stars - Russell Baillie - NZ Herald

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released August 22, 2000

Band Members: Chris Knox

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