ANONYMOUS

The Operator

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Description:

The Operator is that rare thing: a straight indie-rock album tailored for close listening. The band's name may be a clue - this is music that bypasses stylistic small talk and cuts to the chase.

Andrew Cornford's fragile voice whsipers conspiratorially about "the Operator" and just what he's been up to. It's a record about identity - who we are and what that means for our lives. The theme is there in every song - songs to whsitle on the way home and songs that ask you to pay attention, commit, and enter their unique sound worlds.

It's a world of infinite variety - God in the details - balancing close harmony vocals, understated instrumental flourishes, a blend of raw and processed guitars, studio wizardry, and a rhythm section who seem to have forgotten to drill out boring rock beats and instead play with the effortless melodic complexity of a jazz trio. What you get is less a wall and more a wave of sound, that ebbs and flows throughout the first eight tracks, climaxing in the orchestral panorama of "Stronghold", and then seemingly recedes into the phonebox that pops up in various unlikely locations on the sleeve. Not only is The Operator about identity, but it sounds like a band smiling, happy in their own skin.

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Tracklist:

1. You Made Me See

2. Yahweh, Your Way
3. How to Tell When People Aren't Listening
4. Inside
5. New Song
6. Becoming What I Am
7. The Theory of Everything
8. Stronghold
9. The Last Days
10. Yet Another Prodigal

Details:

Released: 19th December 2005

All songs written by Anonymous.
Produced, mixed and engineered by David Frady, Sanjay Rajo and Anonymous.
Recorded at Purple Squares Studios, Chutney Groove Studios and St James Church, Southampton, July 2004 - May 2005.
Mastered by Mike Taylor at Purple Squares Studios.
Strings arranged by Chris Taylor and conducted by Craig Lawton.
Photography and artwork by Jamie Woollam and Tim Collins.

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