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come on, it is too early. i had some listens and i must say it depended completely on my own mood. yesterday it was catching me a lot, today not that much. the sound grows on me, so i see no weakness in the mix, or the overall sound quality. the only thing i still have to get into is the singing… :wink:
it’s not to early to grade the artwork…it’s ok but i can’t understand the delay due to this artwork…
c’mon! if they had managed to stick to the original release date, you had been whining during july already. :wink: i didn’t have the record in my mailbox yet, but thanks to you guys lowering expections, i am sure i’ll be blown away! :MPD:
@tractorbass and Jtr: I’ll pay to you for a link, I’ve buyed the record, I’m a honest person, but I can’t rip my Vinyl on my hard disk. If you want I mail to you a pictures of me with the record. thank you.
@TraktorBass and Jtr: I’ll pay to you for a link, I’ve buyed the record, I’m a honest person, but I can’t rip my Vinyl on my hard disk. If you want I mail to you a pictures of me with the record. thank you.
Nobody should upload anything. Let’s do our part to keep this release from leaking to Piratebay! And for those unlucky souls not having heard it yet (including myself), you’ll get your chance. Just have faith!!
Ok, here my opinion on the songs (wrote about sound and cover before):
Ozzylot: A great pop-song with some very nice, hidden melodies and a funny solo by Snah.
Riding The Tiger: My favourite up to now. Psychedelic beginning and such an awesome vocal melody over the driving riff.
Whole Lotta Diana: Just a cool straight forward song with a jam-ending. The very last riff is perfect for extending it on stage. Really huge!
Cornucopia: Didn’t get into this one yet. Not very inspiried, even though it has a beautiful piano intro by Larry Space.
Mr. Victim: Better then the last one, although it continues the principle of a kind of “noodled bass riff in some weird meter” where Snah lays chords above. But I like the vocal melody pretty much.
The Waiting Game: Altough it’s actually just one simple riff it touches me pretty much.
Child Of The Future: Guess this has to grow still. Doesn’t touch me too much yet but is ambitious!
What always came to my mind when I listen to their last 3 records is that they seem to be recorded in a very quick way. Not that they made no effort for them but it’s not like when you listen to Trust Us or Blissard or the LTEC / Phanerothyme-era. There you think they wanted to get the best out of their visions of how to make these albums in every aspect. The last 3 sound like “let’s get in the studio and record something”. Let’s see what comes next!
Well like i said in a previous post on the MP3 thread, i JUST HAD MY FIRST LISTEN!! Mind you, it was on a crappy stereo (with a busted output, so i only had one speaker, and an even crappier record player. But although i’ve probably missed half the goodness, i still got the feel of the songs. And i must say there’s alot of good vibes on there. First spin favourites are Diana, Mr.Victim and Cornucopia. And first spin letdowns are COTF and The waiting game, which i found rather boring and frankly abit irritating. After reading all the comments in here, i had higher hopes for that tune.
Gonna get to town tomorrow, and buy the proper eq to get a stereo run through. Then perhaps things will appear different…So no final judgement yet!
sorry for posting that much, but i must say that to me this album depends completely on my own mood. at the moment i am heavily blown away… very very heavy.
heres my two cents:
nice record, but nothing new really.
i am really glad that it doesn’t sound like LLM. even if people say that it sounds a little muddy – it is just rocking more than LLM, imo. more bass, more drive – was mastered for vinyl and i guess that shows.
what really struck me upon first listening to it: MP sure have found their trademark sound ! of course: after all the 60s pop experiments it’s quite easy to get a consistent sound again. but this record breathes MP in every minute. sounds like nothing/no one else but MP (though you can hear their influences, of course).
still it’s a record that doesn’t go on heavy rotation for me.
it’s cool, rocking and most of all i want to hear them perform the songs live. and that’s what it does for me: every song screams: “i am monster – wait till you hear me live !”.
and since all albums after TRUST US grew immensly on me after i heard them “in person”, i am really curious how that will be with COTF !
someone (in the COTF Mp3 topic i think) wrote that all recent albums (after gebs departure i guess) seem to have been recorded rather quick.
i thought something like that with COTF during third or fourth listening:
they recorded the songs while they were on tour on the US. i read somewhere that they had the chance to record with Albini and so they decided to go for it. well that sounds more like a session to me !? though the songs are quite elaborate for a jam-session i still think there might be something to it.
maybe that’s why the songs scream for live renditions/sound like played live ?
maybe that’s also a reason why it is vinyl only ?
maybe it’s rather something like “in the fishtank” than a “real” new album ?
anyway: seeing Kenneth appearing in the credits (only one song “diana”, but still) and the band perfoming as tight as they do – maybe a new TU/TIMMY/”insert your favourite masterpiece” is just around the corner…
Ok so i’ve finished my first proper listen (in stereo i might add – and in headphones). And i think it’s COOL! The 5 first songs kick ass. Tight, rocking and with a nerve to them all. The Kap does one hell of a drummer job, and like mentioned…bent seems to be on speed or something. He really plays his ass off. And then there’s Snah. The Guitar god. Who delivers prime solos and riffs once again. They truly sound like a tight band now.
But as mentioned yesterday, it all falls apart abit in the end. I think both The waiting game and COTF are rather boring songs. So i once again find myself with sort of a anticlimax after those two. If they’d changed the song order abit, and for instance closed with Diana, that would have been a worthy ending. But on the other hand i read that someone has COTF as their favourite song. So i guess it’s ok in the end. It just didn’t do much for me, and i also like the 2006 version much better. Faster, and alot more funky in terms of riffs.
The sound is much better then both LLM and BH/BC if you ask me. Albini did a good job indeed!
Now you can actually hear what they’re singing too
Overall rating 4/5
Now let’s sit back and wait for that Space Opera
I concur, although it is interesting to read peoples comments regarding the record, we knew that it would be studio jams turned into songs, so no surprises there. What surprises me is the beautiful songs they managed to squeeze out through this allegedly spontaneous process. I agree that some of them will find their finished form live, so it should be a nice autumn coming our way.
This beautiful record being an aniversary gift and all, I don’t see what there is to complain about. Vinyl is great! The artwork is astounding in my eyes. When was the last time you got a poster with your vinyl? TM? Exactly.
I will not review the album, but so far my favourites are the whole of side A, and the last two on side B. Ozzylot especially stands out, with the vocals, harmonies, changes and all. Sweet lyrics (“hidden in a girl” LOL) and even sweeter melody – like Beautiful Sisters noisy little twin.
Anyway, I recently read the Aftenbladet article concerning the “space opera” and I recalled having read something similar before (elephants memory), so a google search later I struck gold:
http://motorpsycho.fix.no/thisis/media/origiart_97_nor.htm
It’s the last paragraph, and Bent was talking about what was to become Trust Us. I guess we have something to look forward to.
Sorry, got the link wrong:
my copy finally arrived and after 2 spins i have to say i am a little underwhelmed.
it’s not bad, but nothing really catches on me. weird, when they were into pop-music (cake to love cult) i always wished they would do another rock album, but now i am honestly wishing for some nicely composed pop tunes.
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