I am liking this album a lot more as an adult than I did as a callow youth, although I'm not going to pretend that everything here clicks for me. This is still neo-prog dusted with Santana worship, but I can vibe with that more now than I could when my tastes were more narrowly anti-pop, and the psychedelic experimental touches stick out far more to me now. Ironically, I do wish that the guitar theatrics and weird un-hip genre asides were more upfront in places; "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" gets a little tedious in places for its relative dearth of melodrama and bizarre digressions until the very end. "L'Via L'Viaquez", on the other hand, is just delightfully ludicrous.
hey now, nothing wrong with a little Santana worship.
Oh, no, I agree now. It's just that back then it was very much anathema to my tastes. My horizons have since broadened.
Bohren & der Club of Gore, "Kleinerfinger" (Geisterfaust, 2005).
A concept album made up of long jazzy-doomy slowcore tracks (played by former thrash metallers) named after fingers with a title that literally means "ghost fist." I can dig it.
This last one is the first track where their famous sax work shows up. It's pretty damned classy.
Floor, "Nothing I Remember" (Dove, 2004, recorded 1994; part of the Below & Beyond box set, 2010).
I am not entirely sure how I feel about Floor, but it seems like any band that does an extended cover of Joy Division's "I Remember Nothing" seems destined to knock it out of the park. To be fair, few do, so maybe it's just the kind of band that would (e.g. Vertical Slit), but still.
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I am not entirely sure how I feel about Floor, but it seems like any band that does an extended cover of Joy Division's "I Remember Nothing" seems destined to knock it out of the park. To be fair, few do, so maybe it's just the kind of band that would (e.g. Vertical Slit), but still.
man, who thought that Sonic's arch-nemesis had such groovy beats?