Sputnik / Meet Sputnik
Album: Meet Sputnik   Collection:General
Artist:Sputnik   Added:Apr 2005
Label:<No Label Info>  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-07-18 Pull Date: 2005-09-19
Week Ending: Sep 11 Sep 4 Aug 14 Aug 7 Jul 31 Jul 24
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 18, 2012: A Family Affair
Another Time Zone
4. Aug 31, 2005: Lost and Found [sub]
Sputnik (Song for Laika)
2. Feb 06, 2007: Storytime: Kids with Big Jobs
Whole Wide World
5. Aug 09, 2005: Storytime! -- Grimm's
Whole Wide World
3. Sep 06, 2005: Storytime!
Whole Wide World
6. Aug 06, 2005: Bite and Hide Alumi Show
Run Run Look and See

Album Review
Mandy Khoshnevisan
Reviewed 2005-09-01
Nice indie pop with a nostalgic flavor, as indicated by the band’s name. Tasty mix-ins in their indie sound: some poignant accordion like in a French film, some sound art—and a sweet female vocalist, breathy but optimistic. Some really fun, dancy poppy stuff, and then some more introverted tracks. All are nice.

1. (4:31) starts out with nostalgia accordion, then enter guitar ensemble.
*2. *(2:50) Latin-y ratchet percussion against a dreamy pop background. (about finding the right person for you.)
3. (3:37) starting a motorcycle; then driving guitars move that motorcycle along. Catchy refrain.
4. (3:02) midtempo—walking in the happy rain
5. (3:28) head-bopping groove
*6. *(6:18) starts with soft night sounds, staticky broadcast; then slow bright spacy (about launching Laika the dog into space)
7. (3:40) accordion; mellow syncopated rhythm, easygoing.
8. (3:21) coy but urgent midtempo
9. (2:52) driving and upbeat; synthy triumphant organ
*10. *(2:15) bop your head and kick your heels back
11. (4:40) starts quiet, with spacy sounds. quiet but urgent; grows to an impatient loud refrain.
12. (3:36) folky acoustic guitars, slower and breathy, reverent; faint accordion
13. (4:02) accordion (sounds like Moon River); wistful echoey last-song-at-the-prom 6/8.

—Reviewed by Mandy (la chanteuse)

Track Listing
1. She's Alive   8. Windows Hotel
2. Whole Wide World   9. Run Run Look and See
3. Powerlines at Dawn   10. Another Time Zone
4. Smile in the Rain   11. Down the Little Street
5. Is It Still Your Heart?   12. Alley of Your Prayer
6. Sputnik (Song for Laika)   13. The Warmth of the Sun
7. Lonely   .