BT "These Hopeful Machines"

This is one of those few records that are long, but are worth the time spent listening to it. You can listen to it while doing something else and still enjoy it."Suddenly" I feel faint; could it be all that pain that crossed here, or could it be the funky shimmery synth,or maybe it's just the last two minutes with that prominent bass and tech-riff. "The Emergency" just has you dancing like you're in love and out of control with happiness; it is a song of love and how his heart is bleeding because of his incredible love as he sings "I Love you" over and over, but the ambulance has left and he knows today is the day he will come in first. He has a wonderful voice, even with that reverberating distortion, and the song endsewith those soaring strings."Every Other Way" just seems wrong with these beautiful heartfelt vocals, and the nice acoustic strumming, little bleeps, and just the sound of crashing waves. This nice beat kicks in at 4:00, but it goes back and forth. You would think a song in trance or techno could not have soul or make you feel someything, but it does "And do you count on me now/And do you wait up for me all night/I wish I could run/To you when you need me/You know I can't be far/For long/Heart don't fail me now/'Cause there's no time to waste/Don't shut me out/We shouldn't wait another day/I've searched for you/On my hearts high speed chase." It's always great, as well as difficult, to see "The Light In Things," but this song's wonderful vocals and beat with those bass distortionloops are really nice.F! You just feel the energy in your bones, and the keys and other sfx just make you want to dance., no duh! redumbdant? "Rose of Jericho" was one without vocals, but was a nice listening song. I hope it's not that easy to "Forget Me," but I won't be too surprised if it is. I love how the driving drumsand the great riff, and then cue the fun synths, back to the guitar, and nice beat with reverberating guitar; I must like it because of the rock flavor this song has. I sense a nice change at 5:30 , and I just want to cry at 6:30 where this young child, Kaia, sings "Let us remember/ Life's just a beautiful mistake/It's precious and fragile/Sometimes more than we can take/It's stronger than fire/Greater than all the wars we wage/And I don't know what you want me to be/I don't want to be perfect anymore" while a music box plays and then you cain hear rain start around 7:20. ..  "A Million Stars" or tons more may be in the sky, some of which may harbor life, but that may not always detract our interest in the opposite sex or the prospect of love. Well, "Love Can Kill You" which starts with this great riff, and this big drum pound and then goes in a nice rythym. Basically, it is how love can be a double edged sword by either saving us or killing us. This next song was "Always" the one I would remember first, and I'm not sure why. It is a good song, and that beat is nice it must just be the vocals. "Le Nocturne De Lumiere" starts slow you can almost hear the night sky twinkling, a little warp into a minute fifty and then we go into a trad trance bass groove, some light twinkling in back, chimes, and then it has a nice beat change around 6:40 as time ticks, the tempo SLowS DOwn aND ReveRTS BAcK To normal until it changes again at 8;00, once more, and we'll leave it at that. "The Unbreakable" has those wonderful vocals again, and nice istrumentals but "Even the sun in the light of the day/Never it turns, never turns my way/I-I'm not breaking/ Somewhere with love in the space I have known/In a massive city of stone/Even though/Even though/I'm not breaking." I have always liked this next song, but I didn't even hear it by the original writer I first heard Mark Mgrath's cover(Sugar Ray) that was specifically recorded for the "50 First Dates"OST, and when I heard this I was like"I know that song!" the cover is mostly acoustic guitar which sounds real nice, and then a female vocalist joins around 5:10. There is then an instrumental passage that then starts a drum pattern at 6:08, and it's inevitable that there will be some electronic elements coming in, but it's very nonchalant and minimal.  IF I had to choose the most hopeful of these machines I would choose The Emergency, The Light in Things, Forget Me, Love Can Kill You, Always, and Ghost In You.