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I'm not missing any memorable parts as a complaint. I just wanted to state that don't find any. And I don't think it would need a verse/chorus structure to provide these hooks. On LLM I found lots of instant hooks and singalong stuff there right away. This oeuvre here just works differently. I'm very sure it's also only a matter of multiple listens until I can sing that part of that song on the bus.
And it's over very quickly. It feels like a normal 40min album to me. 8O
A strange fact: I haven't found any memorable melody yet. 2nd listen now and I still can't remember one single hook or chorus but that's absolutely ok. The music just ebbs and flows in waves.
The production is somewhat strange, no? A hollow sound of sorts, nothing is really in yr face. Everything swirls somewhere around each other instrument. Sometimes I wish drums and bass were more present. Then again, nothing fights or obscures nothing else, it's one big booomy wall of sound.
Oh cool, the last song just ended while typing and in my CD-changer The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway started. And it fits just fine.
so the band has lost its way and ran out of creeativity because their way is not yours anymore, or the one way you expect them to take by writing vortex surfer and the golden core parts 2 to 8760876? that's a bit weird.
maybe you want to take a break and listen to the unicorn in a few months again.
In the mail today and I have listened to the first half so far. It took exactly 1.15 minutes until I was shaking with excitement. The very first moments made it clear, there's something about to happen for the next 80 minutes.
Moving? You bet. Captivating? Challenging? Soothing? Entertaining? All of it. What it is not (so far at least, my impressions after the first half): a complete departure. There's still the vintage Motorpsycho, like say the Alchemyst or Kill Devil Hills riffing and the unconventional vocal melodies provided by Snah. But it's the whole musical picture with Stale, the woody rumbling noises, the strings and the grandezza that makes it fresh and as surprising as rewarding. I don't want to say it's the best album or better than any other. It's rather that "amalgam" – as it was said in a review before – of all Motorpsychedelisms from Demon Box to Let Them Eat Cake and the well known influences around them that already influenced those albums now pushed as far as probably possible (we probably have to expect the next album to be a return to the short pop format?). Maybe it's only because I just had an early Genesis listening phase recently, that I'm reminded of their fairytale records Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot. At least considering the muscial boldness and the kick into conventions' butts. This is truly independent music and as Bent said, they are progressive in the truest sense. It might not have been such a crazy far out record in 1974 (but surely one of the best, the über ambitious and cheesy "elements" by roger glover just springs to mind) and only so in comparison to the streamlined, safe-bet music making nowadays, but meh… Thankfully the band just does its do and the music is here and it's outstanding. And a slap in the face to contemporary hype bands as much as to the gritty naysayers who complain about modern music.
Ah the packaging is nice. Again. Great inlay picture. Nag nag. This and the lyrics remind me of Walter Moers' tales and imaginations. This might not be of the real class that doesn't hurt according to the liner notes but he's actually a highly original and imaginative storyteller. The german lot here will know him. Think about Käptn Blaubär's sailor yarns.
Anyway, I read Moby Dick when I was around 13 and Homer obviously but later but I don't know the other suggestions. Nice to be inspired and lead to potentially great stuff by communicating artists.
got me ticket. elitist balcony seat – yay – but as close to the stage as possible. :mrgreen:
any suggestions for Oslo sleeping places?
Playing a live set in a strict running order every night is the weird thing for Motorpsycho to do. Hence probably THE one reason to actually do it this time.
yes jtr but when they're as big as the front cover above, it's kinda hard to avoid. And I don't want to have to avoid the complete phorum. :lol:
nerds unite!
hey guys whatever you do, PLEEEEEASE don't post any more artwork pictures in here. The front picture was already well known, so that's ok, but no more spoilers THANKS.
yes I am this nerdy.
Quote:vinyl running time per side and song running order.is why I started to buy (mostly) MP stuff on CD and vinyl. :MPD:
