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bradsears
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Posted - 06/08/2010 :  07:45:36 AM  Show Profile  Visit bradsears's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I'll put all the reviews I get in this place so please send any you find.

"Due out June 29th on Second Motion, I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years is one album that should stay in your playlist’s rotation for the remainder of the year, if not nine hundred ninety-nine more."
http://thesoundmind.net/2010/06/04/sleep-sounds-good/


"Even without the guitar-driven sturm und drang, this would be one of 2010's prettiest pop records. With it, it's something else altogether stronger, more dramatic and more affecting."
http://www.blurt-online.com/news/view/3806/
Get:
'I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years', 'Spent Bullets' and 'Bolts of Melody'
http://secondmotionrecords.com/artists/adam-franklin.html#music
Magnetic Morning's A.M.: http://www.insound.com/Magnetic_Morning/artistmain/artist/INS38304/
Remastered swervedriver classics. http://www.hispeedsoul.com

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bradsears
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Posted - 06/11/2010 :  1:25:29 PM  Show Profile  Visit bradsears's Homepage  Reply with Quote
"Former Swervedriver frontman Franklin returns to working with a full band after a decade of acoustic solo work. This isn't as noisy and rocked-out as Swervedriver, but nonetheless boasts Franklin's unerring melodic sense and a definite fuzzy, shoegaze atmosphere. If you miss Creation Records, you'll enjoy this."
http://rvamag.com/articles/full/8209/daily-records-beach-fossils-adam-franklin-and-the-bolts-of-melody-ceremony

"The most exciting aspects of this disc are certainly its manic moments. “I’ll Be Yr Mechanic,” a spaghetti-western-tinged nugget, stands toe to toe with Swervedriver’s best early-’90s output, even though the majority of the material here feels like a logical extension of the band’s swan-song, 99th Dream. "
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/cd_reviews/9342/
Get:
'I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years', 'Spent Bullets' and 'Bolts of Melody'
http://secondmotionrecords.com/artists/adam-franklin.html#music
Magnetic Morning's A.M.: http://www.insound.com/Magnetic_Morning/artistmain/artist/INS38304/
Remastered swervedriver classics. http://www.hispeedsoul.com

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bradsears
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Posted - 06/29/2010 :  2:13:22 PM  Show Profile  Visit bradsears's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Nestled somewhere between the feel of Big Star and Sonic Youth “Sleep” is a perfect balance of sweet harmonies and breezy guitars, that was prevelant on 2009’s critically acclaimed Spent Bullets, but is by far Franklin’s most accomplished work yet.
http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release/12563

...I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years being Franklin’s most fully realized solo effort to date. Seductively cool, loud and pretty, soft and spaced-out, yet very approachable, it’s everything that’s to be expected of this uniquely gifted songwriter and musician.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/126372-adam-franklin-bolts-of-melody-i-could-sleep-for-a-thousand-years

I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years actually fuses the two sounds well — sweet harmonious melodies and amorphous six-string sprawl.
http://www.clevescene.com/c-notes/archives/2010/06/29/out-today-adam-franklin-and-bolts-of-melody

It’s hard not to measure Franklin by his prior successes, but when he lives up to it, why not?
http://blog.limewire.com/posts/45041-album-review-adam-franklin-bolts-of-melody-i-could-sleep-for-a-thousand-years-second-motion/

With Swervedriver, Adam Franklin had an eight-year run spinning out dreamy textures of distorted guitar that, however, loud they might turn in live performance, had an unruffled serenity to them.
http://30secondsover.blogspot.com/2010/06/swervedrivers-frontman-back-with-new.html

One of BlackSwanSongs.com all-time favorite artists, Adam Franklin (Swervedriver, Magnetic Morning) continues his prolific run with a new Adam Franklin and the Bolts of Melody album entitled I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years
http://blackswansongs.com/archives/tag/adam-franklin
Get:
'I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years', 'Spent Bullets' and 'Bolts of Melody'
http://secondmotionrecords.com/artists/adam-franklin.html#music
Magnetic Morning's A.M.: http://www.insound.com/Magnetic_Morning/artistmain/artist/INS38304/
Remastered swervedriver classics. http://www.hispeedsoul.com

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bradsears
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Posted - 07/08/2010 :  08:20:50 AM  Show Profile  Visit bradsears's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Just got a bushel in today. Have not read through them yet.

http://sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-7789-holy-fuck-lcd-soundsystem-and-adam-franklin-bolts-of-melody.html
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/126372-adam-franklin-bolts-of-melody-i-could-sleep-for-a-thousand-years
http://www.clevescene.com/c-notes/archives/2010/06/29/out-today-adam-franklin-and-bolts-of-melody
http://blurt-online.com/reviews/view/2250/
http://pitchfork.com/news/39229-news-in-brief-arcade-fire-monotonix-adam-franklin-iceland-inspires/
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/831339--ben-rayner-s-reasons-to-live
http://www.deadcoolshop.com/music+cinema/recommended-albums/dont-sleep-on-this/
http://www.seattlepi.com/pop/423038_138605-blogcritics.org.html?source=rss
http://www.agitreader.com/reviews/album_reviews-07.06.10.html
http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-adam-franklin-bolts-of/
Get:
'I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years', 'Spent Bullets' and 'Bolts of Melody'
http://secondmotionrecords.com/artists/adam-franklin.html#music
Magnetic Morning's A.M.: http://www.insound.com/Magnetic_Morning/artistmain/artist/INS38304/
Remastered swervedriver classics. http://www.hispeedsoul.com

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bradsears
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Posted - 07/30/2010 :  08:00:54 AM  Show Profile  Visit bradsears's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Anyway, I COULD SLEEP FOR A THOUSAND YEARS sees Franklin doing what he does best, creating shearing melodic guitar rock. Not as slicing as the Swervedriver material, no, this is a bit more laid back and melodic but no less quality.

http://www.daggerzine.com/reviews_main.html
Get:
'I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years', 'Spent Bullets' and 'Bolts of Melody'
http://secondmotionrecords.com/artists/adam-franklin.html#music
Magnetic Morning's A.M.: http://www.insound.com/Magnetic_Morning/artistmain/artist/INS38304/
Remastered swervedriver classics. http://www.hispeedsoul.com

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