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Funny you should mention Radiohead. That band used to be one of my favourites, if not THE favourite some ten years ago, before I discovered Motorpsycho. And as Radiohead progressed into other fields of music, I got less and less interested in them. I listened to the last record only very indifferently, its not my cup of tea anymore — and thats fine! There is plenty of other things to listen to, thankfully.
But I disagree with you on "changing the style completely" – sure, they did that with LTEC and Timmy is quite the departure from Demon Box, but the Unicorn for instance is – in my opinion – not much of a leap forward (or sideways, or whatever), it is quite a natural progression from HMF. To me, these two fit together very well.
btw, i find it quite funny that in this review http://blog.zeit.de/tontraeger/2012/02/13/motorpsycho-death-defying-unicorn_11839#comments as posted above by un.chien – every comment is about the article stating "the current drummer kjell runar jensen"
Indeed, this record has nothing to do with jazz. I recommend listening to some jazz* for comparison. It is quite obvious, really. And seriously, stop lamenting about it and just listen to something you enjoy.
*Some of my picks: Thelonious Monk, Lionel Hampton, Jacques Loussier, Django Reinhardt, John Coltrane – and Sun Ra for the free jazz variant
I got my Unicorn today — and I like it. Interestingly it made me want to listen to Heavy Metal Fruit… weird. Anyway, I think it's not as far-out or jazzy as some make it out to be. Its a logical continuation to their oeuvre, I think. And same as the other Kapstad-era-albums, it will need a few more spins – and thats good.
I also made a new wikipedia page for the album, feel free to contribute as it is terribly incomplete so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Defying_Unicorn
@supernaut: I agree with you on most counts – and especially this: people come to like things they grew up with and they are familiar with. My first MP album was Phanerothyme and I love that album to bits, really. Most MP fans wont agree with me and thats fine. Did it mean they run out of ideas? Nope. Does it mean they are over the hill now that they record albums in such a quick succession? Hell no.
Anyway, most important things in the matter have been said: tastes are tastes, you dont have to like it, just listen to something else if you dont, etc.
@supernaut: ok, thats understandable.
and congrats at everyone already having the album, i'll probably get it next week sometime.. somehow delivery to austria is always slow. ah well. like always
well it might be to you. but for me LTEC is a perfect album, completely flawless. it might be very different from the other albums, but its a very fine record in its own right. anyway, i expect many MP albums to turn up in that list
Good to see they play again, I love that original recording from a few years back, and this sounds even better!
What, LG was played again? Must've slipped me. I love that song, great to see it being played again, hope it's not the last time they dig out old gems like this.
Finally RW4 arrived at my house, too (both CD and vinyl). I ordered at amazon, and for some inexplicable reason, they had its release as April, 28. and that's when they sent it out, too. You can imagine that I was suprised to see that people here already had the record (I was slightly bummed out). Anyway: once again weird cover artwork, but great, great music. I love it.
doing this yourself is actually not all that tricky. rip the audio off the dvd with WinFF ( http://winff.org/html_new/downloads.html ) and chop that up and make suitable mp3s/flacs/oggs/whatever with Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
I did that today, I also burned an audio CD and put it to its DVD brothers into the Haircuts box
