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List Price: $15.98 | | Label: INGROOVES
Salesrank: 8804
Released: May 12, 2009 |
| Our Price: $9.86 |
| Used Price: $7.08 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Divided by Night Track Listing:
1. Divided By Night
2. Dirty Thirty featuring Peter Hook
3. Drown In The Now featuring Matisyahu
4. Kling To The Wreckage featuring Justin Warfield
5. Smile?
6. Sine Language featuring LMFAO
7. Double Down Under
8. Come Back Clean featuring Emily Haines
9. Slipstream featuring Jason Lytle
10. Black Rainbows featuring Stefanie King Warfield
11. Blunts & Robots featuring Peter Hook
12. Falling Hard featuring Meiko
Editorial Review:
2009 release, the fourth album by Electronic music pioneers Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland (AKA The Crystal Method). Bolstered by the innovation, flexibility and craftsmanship that made the duo club culture icons, Divided By Night is nothing short of a masterpiece and easily the duo's most inventive and accomplished album to date! Divided By Night explodes with an assortment of high caliber guests which includes New Order bassist Peter Hook, Metric front-woman Emily Haines, drummer Samantha Maloney, one-time Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle and She Wants Revenge vocalist Justin Warfield.
Divided by Night Reviews:
Definitely Grows On You 
2009-12-17 - Like many of the other reviews I've read, a lot of TCM fans cringed, and were taken aback at their first listen to this album. It really did sound confined and formulaic to me. However, after listening to it several times over the past few days, it has definitely grown on me, and may actually be my second favorite TCM album right after Tweekend (That's where my 5 stars would go). I remember my first listen of Tweekend, and reacting as if it was completely different from Vegas, and that it was. It was heavier, "bassier", and at the same time a little bit more mellowed out and eventually just grew on me. Divided by Night definitely has a mix of everything from their first three albums, from the rapid fire drum machine sounds combined with the wide range and crazy synth along with vocals that don't take a back seat, the album may not accentuate the best of TCM, but after listening to it for a while, it's definitely TCM.
Not sure if other electronic music enthusiasts do this comparison, but I like to gauge TCM with the highly experimental Chemical Brothers on one side and the extremely Drum-n-Bass focused Prodigy on the other side, and typically TCM falls in the middle of those two extremes, and this album certainly still falls in between these, even with a few hints towards each group, without losing sight of TCM's true identity.
It works for me. 
2009-12-12 - I am really enjoying this album. Although it has a more laid back energy than previous TCM albums, It still features plenty of the elements that make up a great TCM album, which are awesome synths, heavy beats, and rich multi-layered sounds throughout. It does feature a lot of guest vocalists on it as well, some reviewers say too many, but, it's all good for the most part. Except maybe for the last track, titled Falling Hard, which is a nice enough song but it just doesn't feel quite right on a TCM album. It's a little too slow and moody, but, it's the closer, and that's okay because the rest of the album more than makes up for it and really delivers the goods. I own and love all of The Crystal Method's albums and I think this one is just as good as anything else that they have ever done.
Standout tracks are Divided By Night, Dirty Thirty, Smile?, Sine Language, Double Down Under, and Blunts and Robots.
A Good Mix of Everything
2009-11-22 - This album encooperates something from all sorts of music styles. This album has something for everyone. All ages will enjoy.
People just don't get how talented these guys are...!
2009-11-02 - I've been a fan of Crystal Method since the days of Vegas. I also got the opportunity to see them live. These guys rock all the way around. They've made some quality material in the electronic music realm in the past, and this CD proves they still continue that trend. This CD has a little bit of everything in it. Go get it DAMNIT!!! You won't be disappointed :)
Pedestrian at Times. Very Disappointed. 
2009-09-16 - I'm a huge fan of Crystal Method. Heck, they used some of my drum loops on Tweekend (Skippy's Big Bad Beats). There used to be huge sounds, killer grooves and solid concepts for the songs. These songs are more like loose jams that are not mixed very well (lacking deep punch - kick usually sounds very wimpy) - they have lots of cheesy uninteresting sounds - pedestrian synth and guitar playing at times. I expect a lot more from these guys. After working so D*mn hard to get to this place, it's a shame that it feels like CM are taking advantage of us.
There are cool ideas in almost all of the songs - but they are surrounded by parts, sounds and production that is totally uninspiring. Coming from someone that has bought every album since Vegas, I sincerely hope you guys get their mojo back. It's been lacking for a while now and lots of us believe you can get there but it's not very evident on this album.
