The Middle Ages

by Saso

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1.	False Alarms 04:44	buy track
2.	Bone 03:14	buy track
3.	Tres Kilos 03:44	buy track
4.	Snowstorm 03:23	buy track
5.	We're Sorry 03:30	buy track
6.	Shrinkwrap 01:55	buy track
7.	Waking Life 04:07	buy track
8.	Red Scare 03:07	buy track
9.	Chasing Monsters 04:17	buy track
10.	Blood Is Thin 04:48	buy track
11.	Chloroform 02:45	buy track
12.	Shock Horror (Bonus Track) 01:57	buy track
13.	We R Watchn U (Bonus track) 03:59	buy track
14.	The Middle Ages (Bonus track) 03:40	buy track

about

Following the critical acclaim for their first 2 albums, 'Big Group Hug' and ‘I Can Do Nice’, Saso release their eagerly anticipated 3rd album titled 'The Middle Ages' on the band’s Melted Snow label, on 1st September 2006.

Having utilised orchestration for the previous album, Saso have returned to their more familiar sound palette of analog synths, drums and piano, resulting in a darker and more atmospheric album.

Saso have been likened thematically to arch-miserabilists Radiohead, invoking the loneliness and anxiety of the Modern Condition in reference to shipwrecks, suffocation and isolation, but on this record they provide a refreshing musical alternative, pitched somewhere between mellow electronica and the experimental stylings of Talk Talk.

Saso create music that is at once challenging, yet accessible and repeated listens reveal carefully layered music and the running order is so well conceived on this CD that the whole gels together seamlessly. Having toured the previous album, Saso have taken the experience of playing live into the recording of this record which is particularly evident in ‘We’re Sorry’ and ‘Chasing Monsters’.

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released October 1, 2006

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Saso Dublin, Ireland

SASO formed in Dublin, Ireland in 2000 by Jim Lawler (composer / multi instrumentalist) and GRAMMY Award winning producer/engineer, Ben Rawlins who share a unique artistic relationship as a writer and producer partnership.

Their music has soft tones, dark electronics and an unrushed pace which offer a slow-motion perspective on fast-forward culture. ... more

discography

Invisible World

Feb 2024
Deep Code

Mar 2021
Thresholds

Mar 2019
Mysterium

Feb 2016
Exitudes

Nov 2011
The Middle Ages

Oct 2006
I Can Do Nice

Oct 2004
Big Group Hug

Oct 2021

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