THE RACE - Ice Station reviews
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| Kevchino |
 From Russia with rock n’ roll love could easily be an alternate title for The Race’s latest disc Ice Station. The cover art for the album, a black and white photo of the band in dark uniforms studying a (revolutionary?) notebook, has the quartet looking like prisoners of some ancient Gulag. To back up the idea that these guys are straight out of the old USSR there are song titles like “Odessa” and “Walls”. But before you run out to buy a Russian language book so you can properly welcome the guys to the U.S. of A, relax – The Race is made up of a bunch of guys from Chicago. Lead singer/guitarist Craig Klein just happens to have a Russian fixation....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| An awareness of the journey an artist takes to arrive at a place of creative genesis can be absolutely essential in understanding the art itself. Knowing what school of thought motivated a painter’s selection of colors or which life experiences served to catalyze a novelist’s choice of plot, setting, and character may have great effect on the person experiencing such work and might even serve to inspire a like journey. Principal songwriter Craig Klein and the members of Chicago band the Race understand full well the significance of boulevards leading to places of inspiration....full text |
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| PitchFork |
| Chicago's the Race split up in 2004, the result of the buzz-killing intrusions that have prematurely ceased so many other young bands: personality conflicts and a lack of money. Singer and songwriter Craig Klein took that misfortune as an opportunity to redouble his songwriting efforts, however, augmenting them with the sort of historical research made possible by his day job at the Chicago Public Library. A couple of years later, he emerges with Ice Station, a concept album about an imagined trip from Siberia to China and back again....full text |
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