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| Looking Glass | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Birthday Massacre
Label: Metropolis Records
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
Buy New: $6.28
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 9465
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 80545
UPC: 782388054522
EAN: 0782388054522
ASIN: B0016MJ2KA
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | Looking Glass | | • | Falling Down | | • | Shiver | | • | Red Stars | | • | Nowhere | | • | Red Stars | | • | Weekend | | • | I Think We're Alone Now |
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Product Description
This EP is ablaze with driving guitar hooks, intricate keyboard melodies, and Chibi's sinful vocals. In addition to the title track, the EP contains mixes of fan favorites "Red Stars", "Falling Down", and "Weekend", as well as two new tracks, a cover of "I Think We're Alone Now", and the video for "Looking Glass".
Album Description
Looking Glass is the 2008 release fromThe Birthday Massacre , a synth rock band, based in Toronto, Canada and generally associated with the North American goth subculture. The band was officially formed in 1999, known at that time as Imagica, a name which was inspired by a Clive Barker novel - Imajica. A captivating hybrid of 80's electronica and aggressive guitars, curiously fused with a cinematic quality of melodic progressions, The Birthday Massacre's soundscapes have encapsulated a diverse and devout fan base.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Please More & Soon! June 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First off let me start by saying that if I could I'd give this album a 4.5 instead of a full 5, but seeing as only two of the songs are responsible for all of my gripes I'm going to go ahead and give this the higher rating.
The biggest problem with this CD is that the group chose one of the more less appealing songs to promote - in this case Looking Glass. Out of all the songs from Walking With Strangers that would have made a better promotional vid or song I would have named almost any other. The music video is almost painfully embarrassing to watch as well, and while the band plays with an interesting concept in it all the artistic direction comes off as terribly cliched and trite. Huge bummer.
However despite these flaws this is still a truly wonderful CD, with the following standing out in particular :
1. Falling Down
This lives up to its new found subtitle "crawling pulse". The mix slows it down to an almost creepy level, bringing more melodious bridges and melancholy pianos into it until the song is almost completely transformed. I gave the song 2.5 - 3 stars on Walking With Strangers however this is a full blown 5 making it one of the better remixes on the album.
2. Shiver
If this is any indication where the next album is heading I think we might have a better album than even Violet to look foreword too (which in my opinion is the band's best to date). A song that pulls no punches as it sings out about a woman thats "too cold to shiver". Can you say "ouch"? Truly a wonderful reminder of the bands ability to write incredibly visual and poetic lyrics.
3. Nowhere
I'm throwing this on my favorites list because even though its an instrumental its still incredibly beautiful. For those of us who loved songs like Black, Red and Prologue and wished that they were a tiny bit longer this is an answer to our prayers at last. Very beautiful.
4. I Think We're Alone Now
No one can dispute that Tiffany is one of the original Pop Princesses with a voice that could put current holders of the tittle to shame however I have to admit . . . the TBM cover is actually better. Another reviewer mentioned here that it was almost like another song entirely and I have to agree and I'm not one to give kudos to covers lightly.
Over all for the price and the content this is a fabulous album. A few things here and there are preventing me from giving it a full 5 stars but really they're just minor complains and shouldn't be taken too seriously by anyone looking to buy this, my only real complain being that now I'm having an even harder time waiting until their next album after being given a taste of this!
 Better than Evanesance May 8, 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Well the albums not bad, the underlying riffs behind the music make it seem like a gothic theatre perfomance. I just picked the CD up since there touring with MSI's "If" tour this year. The beats are catchy and lyrics are great throughout most of the CD. It is shrot though, only eight tracks but includes the music video for "Looking Glass". So yeah in short better than Evanesance ('scuse me if thats spelled wrong) good beats, great if your into goth rock.
Awesome Remixes June 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of my most favorite TBM CDs to date. My fave tracks are Shiver, and the remixes of Red Stars and Weekend. No song is any real waste on this CD. Even the classic song I Think We're Alone Now is wonderful, Chibi's voice really making it stand out and be something else. For those of us who grew up listening to such songs with our parents, it's a nice surprise, especially with having a modern sound to it.
The only real qualm I would have would be with the instrumental track--not too long and not too interesting, at least to me. Nowhere is basically a misfit on this CD, though some people might like the instrumental break.
buy it..... May 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you listen the TBM you'll like this. Some good mixes from Walking with Strangers.
 The Looking Glass EP May 11, 2008
I ended up liking Looking Glass (the song) alot better after seeing the music video for it. Choosing to work with Dan Ouellette again was a good call. The remixes are all decent to good; Il Attire's Remix of "Red Star" is especially great. It's also nice to finally have "Nowhere" for ready listening. My favorite track on The Looking Glass EP though, is definitely TBM's take on: "I Think We're Alone Now", originally written by pop singer Tiffany.. it's almost a whole new song. I'd really like to see TBM cover some more well known songs in general I suppose (Duran Duran, Depeche Mode?), just too hear that magic touch only The Birthday Massacre can give to music.
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