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Burning Airlines

Mission: Control!
1999
DeSoto

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Published on January 16th 2007

Among several other things, Burning Airlines’ debut is jagged, smooth, in your face, swirling around your head, cold, and warm all at once. It’s a record with instrumentation and lyrics that can stand alone in their own rights, but when coupled with one another are simply undeniable.

“Carnival” introduces the band with a flurry of curveballs, as the heaviest riffage on the record leads the way into a relatively laid back verse with clever melody, setting the stage for a spiraling chorus that echoes its words: “I’m finding my own way around our carnivalesque common ground. When are the tents coming down?”

Mission: Control! boasts some very tight bass and drum interplay. “The Escape Engine” has verses with a feel equivalent to that of a bumpy road, while “Flood of Foreign Capital” makes it sound like the world is ending beneath the most minimalist of guitar lines. Additionally, the guitars on this record are very inventive and fresh. They’re spastic in “Crowned,” wet with effects in “3 Sisters,” straightforward in “Wheaton Calling,” and virtually all of the aforementioned in “I Sold Myself In,” making it a fitting closer.

Burning Airlines have crafted a record that works on so many levels. Mission: Control! sets the bar very high in terms of both lyricism and musicianship and marries the two with only the finest of melodies.



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    Posted by RRK on 2007-01-18 22:52:46
    My Score:

    Score is for the review.

    I've heard people talk about this album and I'm interested in hearing it, but your 'review' sucked ass. I have no idea what this is supposed to sound like.

    Posted by Scruffy on 2007-01-18 01:08:28

    I vastly prefer Identikit to this one. Identikit is so much catchier and hooky, while still being J. Robbins weird.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 6:25 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    great record, good people.

    wyzo

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 5:59 PM (EST)

    yeah this record rules. i liked identikit a lot too but probably not as good on the whole

    Posted by theyounginfluential on 2007-01-16 17:14:10
    My Score:

    did people really not like identikit? i mean, i do prefer this album, but identikit was great too.

    Posted by damnitsderek on 2007-01-16 16:43:02

    I like Burning Airlines, but I never got around to listening to the entire album. I think I'll do that now.

    Posted by Inspection12e on 2007-01-16 12:43:27

    Classic album.

    Posted by notfeelingcreative on 2007-01-16 12:16:41

    "As much as I liked Jawbox, I never got too into Burning Airlines or Channels."

    I must second that, I loved Jawbox, but neither of Robbins's recent projects has done much for me.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 4:03 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    Since Channels still hasn't been reviewd, I'll write something up as soon as I can get around it.

    Also, this album is fantastic, it's a shame BA dropped off so much with Identikit in comparison. The loss of Bill Barbot really hurt.
    -Osloboditelj, back from Ecuador and still too lazy to log in on any computer but my own.

    Posted by leezdeez on 2007-01-16 03:13:26
    My Score:

    This record is amazing. I know J Robbins has been in a handful of different bands, but this record was my first encounter with anything he did and I was floored right away.

    Posted by maverick on 2007-01-16 01:52:50

    As much as I liked Jawbox, I never got too into Burning Airlines or Channels. However, I did dig the die-cut packaging on this CD.

    -Scott

    Posted by branden on 2007-01-16 01:33:35

    this band rules

    Posted by BrendanKelly on 2007-01-16 00:30:56

    where's the channels review?

    Posted by nocigar on 2007-01-16 00:19:34

    horrible review

    Posted by 200_Bars on 2007-01-16 00:10:36
    My Score:

    J. Robbins at his finest. Such a great record.

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