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product_id: 21477523
title: "Transistor Radio"
brand: "m. ward"
price: "₪88"
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reviews_count: 10
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# Transistor Radio

**Brand:** m. ward
**Price:** ₪88
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Transistor Radio by m. ward
- **How much does it cost?** ₪88 with free shipping
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## Description

Product Description               From a half-named troubadour with an otherworldly voice and an old time sensibility comes this fourth full-length, a collection of songs dedicated to the last remaining independent radio stations.                  .com               Transistor Radio may be bookmarked by instrumentals, but M. Wards cracked, jazzy croon is the true star of all his work. The sixteen tunes here all sound like sketches that became songs on the spot, and we all know the well-crafted illusion of spontaneity is a very difficult thing to pull off repeatedly. His most consistently enjoyable album to date, Transistor offers breezy, smart, poppy music very much in the American folk tradition, from country blues to bleary-eyed bedroom strums. This is the soundtrack to a lazy Sunday when you sleep in, read the Times in bed, cuddle with a friend, then finally leave the house for cheese grits. "Ill Be Yr Bird" sounds like the Fruit Bats collaborating with Vic Chesnutt, while Ward recalls Stew on "Hi Fi," the deadpan lyrics over lazy, lovely sounds: "Why burn your bridges when you can blow your bridges up?" The laudanum-like charms of Wards music are tough to resist. --Mike McGonigal

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    soundtrack for real life
  

*by 5***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2005*

I read a review of M. Ward's "Transistor Radio" album in the 3/14 issue of Newsweek magazine.  I was intruiged enough to hop on over to Amazon to see what more I could find out about this M. Ward, and see what my ears could hear.  After getting a small taste of each track, I was compelled to purchase the album.  When it arrived, I played it.  And played it.  And played it.  I have become enchanted, entranced and mesmerized.  The album title describes it best:  songs deriving their essence from the station hopping of yesterday's radio. Somehow,it doesn't matter what's going on in our house, this album matches the activity.  First thing in the morning, last thing at at night, driving from here to there and everywhere in between, kicking back and taking time to soak in every note, this album magically fits it all.  How?  I couldn't tell you.  But it does.  It is now several days later, and I've found myself back at Amazon, purchasing yet another copy of this album.  This time for another redhotmama who enjoys true, real, musicianship with a twist of life thrown in.  Be a believer. Buy the album.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good, not life-changing
  

*by J***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2009*

This album by M.Ward is pretty solid with some standout tracks ("Hi-Fi" is my favorite, but "One Life Away", "Fuel for Fire", "Four Hours in Washington"), and some weaker ones.  On the whole, Transistor Radio could have benefited from a little less attention to spacey production values and more attention to songwriting.  To me, the major emphasis of the album we less the songs, and more about using a variety of Lo-Fi production values to evoke a vague, dreamy nostalgic feeling.  The arrangements are by and large interesting and engaging, but often things are obscured by too much reverb, most especially M. Ward's vocals, which are laconic, breathy, and drowned in too much echo to have energy or cut through the mixes.  Reverb is a taste thing, but in my opinion it distracts from the stronger songs on the album and fails to help the weaker ones.  There are some songs like "I'll Be Yr Bird" and "Oh Take Me Back" that seem to rely almost entirely on Lo-Fi production values to hold the listener's interest, but fell flat.  I think the energy on this album could be a bit better, and with some slightly altered production values, cut a few songs, and add in some more of M.Ward's tasteful guitar arpeggiations and some more vocal harmonies it could have been a 5 star album.  I'll look forward to M.Ward's next effort, and hopefully it will be a little stronger on songs and a little weaker on reverb.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    WOW, what a cool album!
  

*by T***B on Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2005*

Now, I don't normally put on a new album and start loving it right away, but that is exactly what M Ward's Transistor Radio did for me.This has so much diversity, from the beautiful acoustic sounds of the opening and closing tracks, to the chugging, swinging boogaloo of "Big Boat," to the dark "Sweethearts On Parade."While nailing down M Ward's sound is nearly impossible, I'll try: a one-man version of the Band; a stoned-on-laudenum-too-but-happy-too version of Iron & Wine; a fresher, less-cryptic version of early '70s Dylan.I don't want to weigh the guy down with ridiculous expectations, but this and his second album End Of Amnesia are the tonic for today's decrepit music industry - heartfelt, well-written songs that express something besides the popular post-modern gloom (sorry Radiohead/Modest Mouse fans).Just listen to the instrumental cover of the Beach Boys' "You Still Believe in Me." You'll see - it doesn't get much better than that. Buy this. Support the birth of real artists.

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