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A Strange Education

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March 26, 2007 13 Songs, 57 minutes ℗ 2007 The Orchard

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The song "A Strange Education" by The Cinematics is about resilience and determination, and the journey of understanding oneself in order to find love and belonging. The speaker walks a long road until they finally find a place where they feel familiar, safe, and where they can lay down their bones and rest. The speaker describes their journey as a strange education that has led them to the place where their true love waits for them. The lyrics suggest that finding one's way home, and understanding who they are, is an arduous but necessary journey to find and keep love. The song ultimately celebrates the power of resilience and the strength of love.

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THE CINEMATICS "A Strange Education" TVT

THE CINEMATICS

"A Strange Education"

THE CINEMATICS IS SUCH an obvious name for an atmospheric rock group that the Glasgow quartet that recently released "A Strange Education" can't be the first to use it. In fact, a previous Cinematics (without the "the") existed in the 1980s before quickly disappearing. Yet the crucial problem for the current band is not that its name seems sort of familiar, but that its music sounds intensely so. Today's Cinematics wouldn't exist without the sweeping post-punk of such early-'80s groups as U2, Echo and the Bunnymen and Modern English.

That overpowering resemblance aside, "A Strange Education" is an entirely presentable album. Although singer-guitarist Scott Rinning emotes painfully in the closing ballad, most of the band's material is taut, driving and catchy. Such songs as "Break," which combines an insistent punk-funk rhythm, an epic keyboard counterpoint and an ascending refrain, skillfully balance the earthy and the celestial. But that sentence could easily end "just the way the Bunnymen did." And until that comparison doesn't automatically attach itself to any discussion of the band's music, the Cinematics will still qualify as a remake.

-- Mark Jenkins

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A Strange Education

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Following the success of several gloomy post-punk revival bands, the Cinematics formed in 2003 and hail from Glasgow, Scotland, after originally meeting in Dingwall. Inspired by the likes of the Cure and Echo & the Bunnymen, the band includes guitarist Ramsay Miller, bassist Adam Goemans, drummer Ross Bonney, and vocalist/guitarist Scott Rinning. By 2005, the Cinematics were touring the U.K. with Ambulance LTD, the Editors, and Brendan Benson, also signing with TVT Records. Their first single, "Chase," was released in September 2006 and produced by Stephen Hague (Blur, New Order). A full-length, A Strange Education, came out the following year. ~ Kenyon Hopkin

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(front) Malachi McCaskill with (L-R) Jordan Barbour, Avionce Hoyles, John-Andrew Morrison, and J. Cameron Barnett

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(front) Malachi McCaskill with Jordan Barbour, J. Cameron Barnett, Tarra Conner Jones, and Jamari Johnson Williams

(L-R): J. Cameron Barnett, Tarra Conner Jones, Jamari Johnson Williams, John-Andrew Morrison, Malachi McCaskill, Jordan Barbour, and Avionce Hoyles

(front) Malachi McCaskill with (L-R) Jamari Johnson Williams, Tarra Conner Jones, John-Andrew Morrison, Avionce Hoyles, and J. Cameron Barnett

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(L-R): Avionce Hoyles, J. Cameron Barnett, Malachi McCaskill, Jamari Johnson Williams, Jordan Barbour, and JohnAndrew Morrison

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(front) Malachi McCaskill and the cast of A Strange Loop

(front) Malachi McCaskill with Tarra Conner Jones, Jordan Barbour, John-Andrew Morrison, Avionce Hoyles, J. Cameron Barnett, and Jamari Johnson Williams

(L-R): J. Cameron Barnett, Jordan Barbour, Avionce Hoyles, Malachi McCaskill, Tarra Conner Jones, John-Andrew Morrison, and Jamari Johnson Williams

(L-R): Avionce Hoyles, Jordan Barbour, J. Cameron Barnett, Tarra Conner Jones, John-Andrew Morrison, and Jamari Johnson Williams

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