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TiME. █▀ ▄█ ▒ ▓▄ █ █ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ █ █ ▄▓ █ █░ █ 01 the fat grin of the enemy 04:56 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 02 polarbear 04:43 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 03 i am sorry 03:18 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 04 tangerine 04:04 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 05 break the bone start the show 05:59 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 06 burns first dies first 03:07 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 07 coming out 04:57 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 08 the rain-pouress 04:41 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 09 one face down 04:43 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 10 no need to laugh 05:17 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ 11 perfect morning fold 05:58 █ ░█ █ █ █░ █ █ ░█ █ █ ▀█▄█ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ░ █▄█▀ █ ▀█ ▀█ ▒ TOTAL: 51:43 ▒ █▀ █▀ ██▄ ▄▓░ ░▓▄ ▄██ ░ █▓█▄ █▓▒░ ██▀█ ██▀▀ ██ █▄ █ ██▀█ ████ ██▀▀ ██▀▀ ░▒▓█ ▄█▓█ ░ ▒ █▓▓█ ▓▓▒▒░ ██▄▀ ██▀ ██ ████ ██ █ ██ ██▀ ▀▀▀█ ░▒▒▓▓ █▓▓█ ▒ ▓ ▀█▒█▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▓█ █ ▓███ ▓███ ▓█ █ ▓███ ▓█ ▓███ ▓███ ▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄█▒█▀ ▓ ▓█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █▓ █ █▓░█ UPHILL RACER is a multi instrumentalist, a one man █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ chamber orchestra brimming with harmonies, elegies █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ and gifted with the knack of effortlessly pouring his █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ emotions into fantastic songs which immediately move █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ and touch. He has been compared quite justifiably to █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ artists such as BECK, BADLY DRAWN BOY, THE NOTWIST or █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ THOM YORKE, who also manage in their own manner to █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ find their way into our ears and hearts without █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ compromising themselves to the mainstream. █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ Alternatively you could also say: Mainstream as █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ wished to be. █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ http://www.myspace.com/uphillracer █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ ôa powerhouse of melancholyö û dusted magazine █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ ôUphill Racer, aka Oliver Lichtl, is the sole figure █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ at the boards on this debut, where breathy, angsty █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ rock battles with expressive instrumentation in a █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ spate of indie electronica quirks reminiscent of █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ Badly Drawn Boy and Tunng. LichtlÆs fluid and, at █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ times, virtuosic use of language is often lost in the █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ digitized gusts of wind that threaten to topple the █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ albumÆs inventive production, his voice reminiscent █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ of BeckÆs most maudlin turns on Sea Change. But more █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ often than not, the tracks on No Need to Laugh leave █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ their mark, arriving at their effectiveness with █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ varying amounts of bravadoö û stylus magazine █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ ôCharmingly sensitive enough to captivate the scruffy █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ Williamsburg massive and those in the like-minded █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ blogosphere, Uphill Racer's home listening tearjerker █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ centerpiece will complement any post-break-up Sunday █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ afternoon or Grey's Anatomy cliffhanger. Rest █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ assured, Mom will dig it too. ô û brainwashed █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ ôLikely to appeal to fans of Jose Gonzales, 'No Need █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ To Laugh' recognises the value of simplicity and █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ makes a good job of giving it adequate room to █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ breathe.ö - boomkat ôOverdubbed, often high-pitched, █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ but still slightly obscure harmonies in a Thom Yorke █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ vein are present; there are lots of overdubs of █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ sparkling keyboards and sampling glaze; drums tend to █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ shuffle or slightly pulse along, calling to mind some █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ of the Beta Band's work -- in sum, it's all very █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ niceà.ö - allmusic █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ http://www.normoton.de/html/uphill_racer.html █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ http://www.uphillracer.de █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ █░▓█ █ █ █▓░█ █░▓█ █ █ ████ ████ █ █▄▄▄ ▀ ░ ░ ▀ ▄▄▄█ █ ▀█ ▒ ▒ █▀ █ ▒ █ ▀█ ▄▓░ ░▓▄ █▀ █ ▒ ▓ █▄ █ █▓▒░ ██▀▀ ██▀█ ██▀▀ ██▀▀ ▀██▀ ██▀▀ ░▒▓█ █ ▄█ ▓ █▄ █▄ █ ▓▓▒▒░░░ ██ █ ██▄▀ ██▀ ██▀ ██ ▀▀▀█ ░░░▒▒▓▓ █ ▄█ ▄█ █▄ █▄█ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▓███ ▓█ █ ▓███ ▓███ ▓█ ▓███ ▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ █▄█ ▄█ █ ▀█ █▀ █ ██▄ All the siteops that host us... ▄██ ██▄ ▄██ ░ █▓█▄ ▄█▓█ ░ ▒ █▓▓█ █▓▓█ ▒ ▓ ▀█▒█▄ ░ ░ ▄█▒█▀ ▓ ▓█ █▓░█ ▒ ▒ █░▓█ █▓ █ ▀███ ▓░ ░▓ ███▀ █ ▀█▄▄ ▀ █▓░ ██▀▀ ██▀█ █▄ █ ████ ██▀█ ██▀▀ ████ ░▓█ ▀ ▄▄█▀ ░ █ ▀█ ▀█▓▒░░░ ██ ██ █ ████ ██ ██▄█ ██ ██ ░░░▒▓█▀ █▀ █ ░ ▒ █ ▀█ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▓███ ▓███ ▓█ █ ▓█ ▓█ █ ▓███ ▓█ ▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ █▀ █ ▒ ▓ █▄ █ █ ▄█ ▓ █▄ █▄ █ ░ iRC: #euhmnope? ░ █ ▄█ ▄█ █▄ █▄█ MAiL: [email protected] █▄█ ▄█ █ ▀█ ░ WEB: http://www.never-ever.com ░ █▀ █ ██▄ ▒▒ ▒▒ ▄██ ░ █▓█▄ ▓▓░ We're always looking for skilled rippers! ░▓▓ ▄█▓█ ░ ▒ █▓▓█ ██▓░ Use one of the contact methods above to apply ;) ░▓██ █▓▓█ ▒ ▒ █▓▓█ ██▓░ ░▓██ █▓▓█ ▒ ▓ ▀█▒█▄ █▓▒░░░ ░░ ░░ ░░▒▓█ ▄█▒█▀ ▓ ▓█ █▓░█▄ ▀ ▀ ▄ ▄ ▀ ▀ ▄█░▓█ █▓ █ ▀█▒░▓▓▓███▄██▄▄ █▄ ▄█ ▄▄██▄▄███▓▓▓░▒█▀ █ ▀▀▀▀▀░░█████▓█▄▄ Ascii by ▄▄█▓█████░░▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀█▄▄▄ ▓░░█████▄▄ AyLieN ▄▄█████░░▓ ▄▄▄█▀▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀ updated by ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▄ ▀▀▀ cA3R0n