Maserati's use of standard rock instrumentation and explorations of musical forms outside the genre may have come a few years too late -- bands like Tortoise and Shipping News being only two of the many acts to excel at this in the mid-'90s.
Still, Language of Cities is an excellent debut from a post-rock band whose Athens, GA, roots would imply a more Brian Wilson-esque approach to songwriting.
Though most songs meander thoughtfully through tremolo-filled guitar passages tinted with soft-brushed cymbals, songs like "Keep It Gold" go for the more complex, forward-churning tendencies of bands like Polvo.
The open spaces on songs like "Being a President Is Like Riding a Tiger" suggest that these guys have listened to some of the more organic IDM and ambient electronic music like Labradford or Aphex Twin, building textures instead of stringing along notes.
Hardly a breakthrough, Language of Cities is more like a retrospective of all that was great about the last decade's instrumental rock without all the missteps that have made the genre such a cliché.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ambassador of Cinema | Maserati | Play | 06:04 | 13 MB | 30 MB |
| 2 | The Language | Maserati | Play | 07:48 | 17 MB | 47 MB |
| 3 | Moving with Heavy Hearts | Maserati | Play | 07:59 | 18 MB | 46 MB |
| 4 | Keep it Gold | Maserati | Play | 02:53 | 6 MB | 20 MB |
| 5 | Cities | Maserati | Play | 06:54 | 15 MB | 39 MB |
| 6 | A Common Interest in Silence | Maserati | Play | 02:49 | 6 MB | 11 MB |
| 7 | There Will Always Be Someone Behi | Maserati | Play | 07:31 | 17 MB | 44 MB |
| 8 | Being A President Is Like Riding | Maserati | Play | 07:57 | 18 MB | 43 MB |
| 50 mins | 114 MB | |||||
| 50 mins | 285 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andy Baker | Engineer |
| 2 | Marc Cherry | Fender Rhodes |
| 3 | Matt Cherry | Artwork, Piano, Telecaster |
| 4 | Coley Dennis | Guitar |
| 5 | Phil Dwyer | Artwork |
| 6 | Phil Horan | Cymbals, Drums |
| 7 | Maserati | Primary Artist |
| 8 | Brian McCall | Photography |
| 9 | Steve Scarborough | Bass, Shaker |
| 10 | Glenn Schick | Mastering |
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| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |