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I do appreciate the album and the whole concept within but roughly half of it leaves me pretty bored. I am sure live in concert it'll slay though!
Got it a few days ago, had some spins…
What a great album. Not only that it is a fully inspired music fable and apart from the very well written orchestral part the three are playing at a peak level.
And a bass thunderstorm it is! So well produced, the orchestra sounds like perfect.
Without loosing rock n'roll ground the album takes you everywhere from loud to quiet, from groovy to loose (and space!), from small to grand. Beautiful melodies are there and you want to listen to them again and again.
A new masterpiece with nothing else then the trademark MP-stamp. So good they are present, up and running!
Hmm… looks like traveling again this time… Anyone knows anything about the rumour they play Duna Jam again?
review nu.nl In Dutch and very positive. Nice one.
I've listened to the record quite some times now. I still think it ia fantastic. I tend to listen to it only in it's entirity. I tink in some time to me it will be a record like Mars Volta's Frances the Mute, or the Sunn O))) and Godspeed You Black Emperors lp's. Records i love very much and enjoy enormously when i listen to it. But, they are records who demand attention, and time. So it don't play them that much but enjoy every bit whén playing them.
In the case of The Unicorn that's a good, not a bad thing. Since i have almost everyting Motorpsycho made on vinyl, when i want to listen to shorter, more compact songs i will pull out f.i. Child Of The Future again. And i haven't yet discovered Strings entirely.
For now i can't get neough of The Unicorn. A wild, passionate rollercoster of a record. Very, very good. The sort of classical and jazzy stuff are a brilliant addition to the more classic psycho stuff on the record. I think it is good, like by others in this topic) to remember that this isn't really the HMF folluw up but a collaboration between the band and Storlokken. Like the In The Fishtank record isn't a classic Motorpsycho records. Let's see what's next! Can't wait for the shows.
No fear,no hatred,no mercy,no compromise.
ANDNOTONLYSNAHISGOD!
I follow and fell the unicorn.
LOVELOVELOVE and THANKS,no words for this eternal masterpiece.
Funny trivia: In one of the Norwegian interviews, Bent mentioned that the title "The Death Defying Unicorn" actually came from a misheard lyric in a song by The Pretty Things. Turns out that song is "Eagle's Son" which Motorpsycho covered on the The Visitant 7". The original lyric was "death, it wears a uniform". :lol:
The album STILL gets better with every spin. I'm sooo curious what it will sound like on tour without the orchestra.
Listening to Dog Parade from the Osnabrück gig last year. One guitar (or bass?) melody during the guitar solo ended up as one of those übercool bass lines during Mutiny's solo.
Just for funny
For those with aversion against LP/CD it is now available in decent quality from Gubemusic
Serious monster bassness going on on the Unicorn, indeed.
I can't wait to hear them play this mammoth album live. Will be seing them in Stavanger on the 22nd March.
I've hardly listened to anything else since it was released (apart from "A Brief Crack of Light" by Therapy?), so hearing them play through the album live is like a dream come true…a dream that I wasn't aware of before the beginning of February.
"They nabbed me poaching last spring, said i could choose to sail or swing" What a great album! Truly a journey.
Don't know if this belongs in the tour-thread or not, but we should maybe keep that one as informational as possible, not cluttering it with musings of all sorts, so here goes..
We know they will play the whole Unicorn this coming tour, but what other songs (encores) do you think they will do? Since the whole thing is kinda thematic it might be strange to just throw on a few hits in the end.. Maybe they'll play all their sea-themed songs, like "Taifun", "The Sailboat Song", "Sail on", "The ocean in her eyes" and.. oh yeah, "Dolphyn"
Actually not a bad idea when I think about it. Would certainly like to hear The Sailboat song live sometime..
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