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Hurts – Exile (Deluxe Edition) Album Review

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Hurts - Exile (2013)

Hurts – Exile (2013)

The first album is never an easy one to deliver, especially when your first was as good as Happiness, and so with Exile, released today in the UK, have Hurts pulled through and given the goods? Well to see what we think, this is our Hurts – Exile (Deluxe Edition) Album Review.

(Review of the Deluxe Edition, Standard album stops at The Rope)

rating5 Exile

The album kicks off in Exile, a dark synth filled melody, kicking off with the statement “Home, it’s where the heart is”. Whilst the song itself is not is dark, it’s actually rather epic, it all makes for a really awesome cool sounding opener!

rating5 Miracle

First single and first song we heard, this upbeat number with a falsetto beginning chorus of “If you look/And deep in my heart you will find” followed by a cool deep indentation of “No love, no light, no end inside” is just genius, just brings us back to the pure Pop days of Better Than Love by Hurts back in 2010. An instant grower.

rating4.5 Sandman

A more urban sounding song sporting a techno sounding backing vocals for We’re waiting for the Sandman, but by the time the chorus arrives you can tell it’s Hurts. This song is definitely a grower and may take a while for Hurts traditionalists, but once it grabs you, its got you. The song has a 4.5 simply because it takes a while to get you, but it’s a smashing track.

rating5 Blind

Blind is a perfect follow up to Sandman, beginning with the same style backing vocals, and almost keeping the rhythm for a much sadder feeling song. The song is about someone who has had problems and had to end a relationship, but all they can see is that someone, and they wish they could just be “blind” for a while. The song is such a beautiful one, a classic, each time the chorus comes you can’t help try to reach that note.

rating2.5 Only You

What happens after many seamless perfect songs on an album, an average one comes up, and sadly this is true of Only You. The verses build up the song really well, but the chorus just leaves you underwhelmed, the lyrics aren’t much better either, a filler that we’re skipping every time … except this time obviously, professional reviewing going on here!

rating4.5 The Road

The Road brings the mood back down, even Theo from Hurts described it as the saddest song he could come up with, and whilst it does have a low mood, it’s certainly a pleasure to listen to, especially when the song builds up suddenly at the “When I close my eyes…” just awesome. The song had previously been given away for free through the Hurts website, so it’s far from the first time you may have heard this song, many more listens to come I expect, the ending is just mad!

rating5   Cupid

Who said Depeche Mode were dead? Oh, its still Hurts, but that’s certainly not a bad thing. Like a Depeche Mode classic, we’re not quite sure what the songs about, but my god does it sound awesome, with vocal effects all over the place, sounds insane in the headphones, add that to the guitar driven disco sound, it’s one of our favourites, even if the Cupid moments are a bit freaky, but when it shouts the start the chorus completely makes up for that.

rating5   Mercy

This album just keeps giving, M E R C Y like a 90s disco you’ll be chanting before this is done, this song means business, it almost makes chanting cool again, when the chorus comes in it wouldn’t be a surprise to hear dubstep influences in there, but done in this way is certainly not a bad thing, we love it! And the scream in the middle 8, wow! This needs to be a single, people will be thinking ‘when did those guys grow balls’!

rating5   The Crow

With The Crow, the mood relaxes again, with Hurts most relaxing song following their most upbeat, probably so you can have a rest after the dances you definitely did. The Crow is an exceptional track about someone growing up and spreading their wings and evolving in life, using the Crow as a reference, just listening to the song evolve is enough for us though. The song is pure beauty start to finish and the chorus leaves you in awe. This track if we had to pick is our album favourite.

rating5   Somebody To Die For

Somebody to Die For is a song to die for, this is the ballad of the album, the Unspoken of Exile, this song beams lyrics of pure emotion, “Cause I don’t need this life, I just need somebody to die for”. Big, bold line after line, this song is lyric and music genius right here! We were fighting in the office whether this or The Crow is our favourite, we can’t call it, this song is just incredible. So get the tissues ready, Somebody to Die For is here, but its worth it, up until the perfect quiet soft vocal ending.

rating5   The Rope

The Rope kicks off almost like a Boyband song, but recovers with the next line. The Rope is a song about someone tackling the rope in their life climbing up to the person they know they have to become, a strong message and a strong song to send it out with. To add to the message, we have a song that just works, with distorted piano, screeches you’d expect to hear on a rap song, the music is a risky number, but in pure Hurts fashion it all works and belongs.

rating5 Help

Help is a jolly melodic number with an almost a Disney feeling to it, but at the same time its a good song. The songs melody rings through it throughout especially in the high pitch one line chorus ‘And we cry for help’. The song is as you would expect a call for Help, someone struggling in life, but the help of someone else just makes everything better. The only thing we kinda don’t like is the chorus that begins mid way till end, “I can feel the darkness coming, and I’m afraid of myself. Call my name and I’ll come running, cause I just need some help!”. Personally we’d of preferred Theos vocals, but its still a great song none the less.

rating4 Heaven

The disco and Better Than Love feeling returns with Heaven, with low drum driven verses building all the way literally up to a Whoahhh driven chorus, epic! The song continues the usual pathway in the lyrics on the album of the pathway of making someone love them forever and the long road leading up to it, but Heaven is the song for those who don’t want to hear it in a low mood set, Heaven is quite a up beat happy song, and we love it!

rating3 Guilt

Just like Happiness, Exile ends on a Piano driven acoustic ballad, except this time we’ve gone out of the water and ended up on the bridge. Guilt isn’t the best song on the album, who knows it may grow on some of you, but it does nothing for us, probably one of the worst songs on the album, but hey it is on the deluxe version after all.

Album Summary

rating4.5 - An incredible follow up to Happiness, Hurts prove that the second album doesn’t have to be the scary one with Exile, the album is darker, more experimented and more importantly, more enjoyable to listen to, Theo and Adam should be proud, this is a great evolution from Happiness.

Marriland White 2 English Walkthrough – Part 137

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Marriland’s White 2 English Walkthrough

Episode 137 – N Rematch (Spring)

Welcome to Marriland’s Pokemon White 2 Adventure! In this episode, I return to N’s Castle in order to challenge him to another rematch, except this time with this Spring-themed team. Part 132 explains how to get him to appear there in the first place. He can be fought there once each change of season and his team varies depending on which season you’re playing in.

Also, here’s a link to a sample of the “Where to Find ALL Unova Dex Pokemon” so you can visit the Nature Preserve:
• http://rkukmedia.co.uk/…..

It is the most massive project I have ever worked on and should be amazing once it is finished. Thank you for your patience and hopefully this sample gives you an idea of how much work has gone into it!
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Pokemon White 2 (and Black 2) is the sequel to the original Pokemon Black and White games, taking place in Unova two years after the first games. They are not just remakes, but are entirely new games with new storylines.

This video series will be broken up into episodes by location, so if a route or area is short, hey, the episode will be a little short, but that way they will be easier to include in my walkthrough on my website and should make it easier to find the stuff you’re looking for!
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Pokemon Black 2 & White 2 – Where to find ALL Unova Dex Pokemon SAMPLE

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This is a SAMPLE VIDEO (unlisted) showing you the first hundred or so Pokemon in the Unova Dex and where to see them in Pokemon Black 2 and White 2. This is to help you complete the Unova Dex (seen) so you can visit the Nature Preserve and get a Shiny Haxorus.

As you can see, a phenomenal amount of work has gone into the project so far. Tracking down where every Pokemon is, sorting through over 50 hours of footage, compiling and dicing up clips of over 290 Pokemon, adding sidebars for all of those Pokemon, etc… Yeah, there’s a lot to it. I still have to record some of the blank scenes and add annotations to the “click to go to the episode” part (I am NOT ADDING ANNOTATIONS TO THE SAMPLE VIDEO, so don’t worry about clicking; but it will be cool on the finished video).

Hopefully this gets you excited! No clue when this will be done as I have probably dropped 60-70 hours into this video so far, but hopefully it will be sometime in February.

HUGE props to Kamikaze333666 for the awesome remix of the Pokemon BW Trainer Battle theme! Check out the original and be sure to subscribe:
• http://youtu.be/6QHSLUrhLdo
• http://www.youtube.com/user/Kamikadze333666
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Pokemon White 2 (and Black 2) is the sequel to the original Pokemon Black and White games, taking place in Unova two years after the first games. They are not just remakes, but are entirely new games with new storylines.

This video series will be broken up into episodes by location, so if a route or area is short, hey, the episode will be a little short, but that way they will be easier to include in my walkthrough on my website and should make it easier to find the stuff you’re looking for!
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Marriland White 2 English Walkthrough – Part 136

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Marriland’s White 2 English Walkthrough

Episode 136 – N Rematch (Winter)

(Welcome to Marriland’s Pokemon White 2 Adventure! In this episode, I return to N’s Castle in order to challenge him to another rematch, except this time with this Winter-themed team. Part 132 explains how to get him to appear there in the first place. He can be fought there once each change of season and his team varies depending on which season you’re playing in.
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Pokemon White 2 (and Black 2) is the sequel to the original Pokemon Black and White games, taking place in Unova two years after the first games. They are not just remakes, but are entirely new games with new storylines.

This video series will be broken up into episodes by location, so if a route or area is short, hey, the episode will be a little short, but that way they will be easier to include in my walkthrough on my website and should make it easier to find the stuff you’re looking for!
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Marriland White 2 English Walkthrough – Part 135

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Marriland’s White 2 English Walkthrough

Episode 135: Catching Cobalion, Terrakion & Virizion

Welcome to Marriland’s Pokemon White 2 Adventure! In this episode, I return to catch the Legendary Trio of Pokemon — Cobalion, Terrakion & Virizion — that I knocked out prior to beating the game, causing them to fight me at level 65 instead of level 45. (I might have said 35 in the episode, oops, ignore that.) You MUST have knocked them out and then beaten the Elite Four + Champion in order for them to reappear at that level! Otherwise they’ll just be at level 45, even if you’ve already beaten the game, although you can knock them out and then beat the Elite Four + Champion again (in the rematch fights, though, so they’re substantially stronger).
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Pokemon White 2 (and Black 2) is the sequel to the original Pokemon Black and White games, taking place in Unova two years after the first games. They are not just remakes, but are entirely new games with new storylines.

This video series will be broken up into episodes by location, so if a route or area is short, hey, the episode will be a little short, but that way they will be easier to include in my walkthrough on my website and should make it easier to find the stuff you’re looking for!
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Pokemon White 2 (and Black 2) is the sequel to the original Pokemon Black and White games, taking place in Unova two years after the first games. They are not just remakes, but are entirely new games with new storylines.

This video series will be broken up into episodes by location, so if a route or area is short, hey, the episode will be a little short, but that way they will be easier to include in my walkthrough on my website and should make it easier to find the stuff you’re looking for!
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Looking for a full written walkthrough of Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 to help you through your game? Check out the one I’ve written on my website to help you out!
- http://pokemon.marriland.com/black2_white2/walkthrough

Additionally, if you want to know what any Pokemon learn, what their stats are, where to find them, and want to know their Move Tutor moves, you can figure all of that stuff out on my website’s Pokedex!
- http://pokemon.marriland.com/black2_white2/pokedex/

Lastly, subscribing to me is a big help, but so is keeping up with me on social networks like Twitter and Facebook! You know you want to… ;)
- http://twitter.com/Marriland
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marriland/91403447445

Pokemon 1542 – Battling Authority Once Again

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Pokemon Black and White: Rival Destinies

Episode 1542 – Jostling for the Junior Cup!

Episode Description; The World Tournament Junior Cup continues, as Trip, Ash and Cilan all easily overpower and beat their opponents. The last match pitch Iris and Dawn against each other, Iris’s Dragonite still not listening to her, even with Cynthia giving advice. But how will it fare against Dawn’s superstrong Mamoswine? And last, but not least, Trip matches up against Cilan once again, he’s more determined than ever, so he can battle and defeat Alder.

Pokemon 1541 – Jostling for the Junior Cup

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvjrj5_pokemon-bw-rival-destinies-episode-42-jostling-for-the-junior-cup_lifestyle

Pokemon Black and White: Rival Destinies

Episode 1541 – Jostling for the Junior Cup!

Episode Description; Ash and his friends is finally entering the World Tournament Junior Cup. Along with them Trip, Georgia and Burgundy enter too, Trip having an especially fierce score to settle with the Unova Champion Alder. Beginning the tournament with an exhibition match, Cynthia battles one of the Unova Elite Four, Caitlin!

Pokemon 1540 – Iris and the Rogue Dragonite

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvd5bp_pokemon-bw-rival-destinies-episode-41-iris-and-the-rogue-dragonite_lifestyle

Pokemon Black and White: Rival Destinies

Episode 1540 – Iris and the Rogue Dragonite!

Episode Description; An evil lurks over the ocean, as a Dragonite battles fiercely with a Hydreigon, until it finally collapses over a Power Plant. Meanwhile Ash and the others encounter a power loss in Cynthias villa, and decide to help Officer Jenny out.

Marriland White 2 English Walkthrough – Part 134

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Marriland’s White 2 English Walkthrough

Episode 134 – Yancy & the Dropped Item

(READ THE DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DETAILS!) Welcome to Marriland’s Pokemon White 2 Adventure! In this episode, I show you the steps involved in tracking down the owner of the Dropped Item (found in Nimbasa City) who has been calling me periodically.

There are fifteen locations she can potentially call you at. You have to go to ten of those locations and step on a specific spot in order to trigger a call. The locations are:
- Nimbasa City
- Driftveil City
- Mistralton City (not shown in this, sorry; middle of the runway)
- Lentimas Town
- Undella Town
- Lacunosa Town
- Route 5
- Route 6
- Route 7
- Route 9
- Route 11
- Route 12
- Route 13
- Route 14
- Route 16

This video shows the exact spots to step on for all of those, although you only need to step on ten spots before she’ll ask to meet in Nimbasa City’s Ferris wheel. Give her back the Dropped Item and then you’ll be able to call her yourself using your Xtransceiver.

For calls #11-50, you need to visit the locations listed above, but you do NOT have to step on a specific spot; instead, you need to check your Xtransceiver item (I recommend Registering it so you can access it with Y). If there’s a little red scroll bar on the right, it means you can scroll down and call Yancy; if there isn’t, you’ll have to travel to another location on the list above until you find her available to call.

After a total of 30 calls (the 10 from earlier and then 20 on your own), you’ll meet for a ride on the Ferris wheel. After 40, the sound will cut out once, and then for the 50th call, she’ll be wearing her work suit and will hang up almost immediately. Call her back and she’ll explain things.

IMPORTANT! After that 50th call, YOU NEED TO WAIT A DAY in order for her to trade. Wait a day (or set your DS clock to a day forward AND to 23:59, then wait two minutes in-game), then return to one of the locations listed above and call her and she’ll offer to meet and trade Pokemon with you. She’ll trade for whichever Pokemon you offer her, so offer something weak.

You can do this once per day (or repeat the DS clock process).

The Pokemon she trades all have their Hidden Abilities and a held item. She trades a total of 12 different Pokemon in order. Once she’s out, she’ll repeat her trades in the same order.

If you’re playing as the girl character, you’ll be dealing with Curtis instead, who is a guy but still rather similar. The Pokemon he trades are mostly the same, though, although there are a few differences that are explained in the video.

The music used in this video is “PMD Pokémon Square (Piano)” by HappyDragonite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kESHON-ZDgg
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Pokemon White 2 (and Black 2) is the sequel to the original Pokemon Black and White games, taking place in Unova two years after the first games. They are not just remakes, but are entirely new games with new storylines.

This video series will be broken up into episodes by location, so if a route or area is short, hey, the episode will be a little short, but that way they will be easier to include in my walkthrough on my website and should make it easier to find the stuff you’re looking for!
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Looking for a full written walkthrough of Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 to help you through your game? Check out the one I’ve written on my website to help you out!
- http://pokemon.marriland.com/black2_white2/walkthrough

Additionally, if you want to know what any Pokemon learn, what their stats are, where to find them, and want to know their Move Tutor moves, you can figure all of that stuff out on my website’s Pokedex!
- http://pokemon.marriland.com/black2_white2/pokedex/

Lastly, subscribing to me is a big help, but so is keeping up with me on social networks like Twitter and Facebook! You know you want to… ;)
- http://twitter.com/Marriland
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marriland/91403447445