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gonna buy the vinyls tomorrow in the record store of my trust.
motto: support your local record store!
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after listening to it once i must say it's some good stuff, especially A I L, but why can't they put a mp3 code or a cd when you order the vinyl ? i really like the bands/labels that put stuff like that in the vinyl package.
Yeah! Arrival in Sweden as well. What a fantastic record! And to be honest after third time listening I cannot wait until the next roadworks. It is actualy not realy important which songs are on the record, most important is the fact that they managed(again!) to catch the live atmosphere of their work during the last years. You can hear them having fun and you get this little electric showers on your back because you just remember this amazing energy during their concerts. The only thing to say is THANK YOU! What a luxury to geth a bonus live record after last years releases and touring activities. More highlights to come: Motorpsycho plays Kongsberg Jazz Festival together with Primus. Thank you, I will go for a fourth round and round we go!
Wow, It's so great (LP of course)! Just had a fellow Psychonaut over for the first time listen and we were both blown away. Veeery nice sound. Great vocals, especially by Bent. Fantastic guitar work from Snah. KDH and the Alchemist are extremely intense, exactly as we know them from the last years live performances. All is Loneliness is just fantastic and Wishing Well has a huge "goose bump" factor.
Some notes after the first couple of listens:
Bomb-proof: One of my live favourites from the last few years. It's weird; I don't really consider it the strongest song of the HMF album, nor do I go 'Yeeeeah!' when it's played live – but this version is just completely indispensable. Not too long ago I compiled a private 'best of' live album, this was the first track I added. Unfortunately, as I have listened so much to the previously circulating recording, I know it by heart and knew what to expect. Had I been unprepared for what lies within this gem I would have been completely blown away. Best song on the album, hands down.
Loneliness: Powerful version, as usual. I really love the drawn-out ending, and the inclusion of the Cornucopia opening at the end is both a great addition and a slight disappointment. I mean, it works well as a final coda to Loneliness, but I was really rooting for (the entire) Cornucopia to be included – Leipzig 2010 being a personal favourite.
Wishing Well: One of the songs that for some reason, I've never really gotten into before – possibly because I just recall it as a pleasant enough but ultimately underwhelming acoustic number. But sweet lord how I get it in this setting! The middle section is an absolute dream to listen to in headphones with the volume turned way up! To me, easily the surprise bulls-eye of the album, and a version that makes me want to re-examine the original.
Landslide: I was initially disappointed when I learned the rw4 track list, Landslide is one of my least favourite pop-era songs, and one I always tend to want to skip when it comes on. Cool enough chords and interesting melodies, but something about it just never quite clicks for me. Thankfully, this version is a great improvement from the album version with some nice jams and great guitar work. Still, in a killer set like this disc it still sticks out as the weakest number.
Kill Devil Hills: I don't know why, but listening to KDH live has always been disappointing to me – possibly because the venues I've been to (Samfundet the worst) don't exactly feature the best possible sound, rendering the noisier sections into a shapeless sludge, little more than screeching noises with a beat. But listening to this I can hear all kinds of detail that have been lost to me when hearing the song live – it finally sounds really intense without slipping over into the unbearable.
The Alchemyst: Monster finish to the record. The lengths to which this band can make a song build in intensity is pretty well known to us all, and they showcase it again here. I normally prefer the title cut from the LLM record, but I think Alchemyst works better as a set closer than LLM ever would.
All in all, I prefer the first half of the album to the latter half. An old-fashioned LP with Bomb-Proof on side A and Loneliness and Wishing Well on side B would have been simply legendary. Still, the entire set delivers more or less exactly what I had been hoping for; some great jamming, immense interplay and a trio playing at their peak – and all in pristine sound quality that upgrades some of the boots I've been playing to death these last few years.
Already looking forward to rw5!
yup, received Stickman version yesterday in Japan. Now first time to listen to… everything's let me scream or just lost words…whata live album…
Damn it, vinyl delayed from CDON in Sweden! I knew I should've got it from Rune. Oh well, just bought it on Itunes as well. I'm going in!
To all of you already playing RW4 while I'm not: you all SUCK!
Except Akane of course, who is having a bad enough time as it is; you should have gotten it a week early, hahaha!
Naw seriously: enjoy, you lucky ones!
Now if you'll excuse me, if have to go stand vigil at the window now, trying to spot the postman…
Grtz, T
Got my vinyl yesterday! But only had one little spin, so it´s a little too early to mean anything more than, JOY! Sounds fantatic, I´m not a big bootleg listerner so these live records are very very welcome.
Also, fantastic cover as usual!
The Sea of diamonds, another sonic youth tribute I presume
Getting a bit tired of all the monster-related headlines, though.
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