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| Yet More Lightning Music Reviews by Zseni 10/12/2004, 11:25pm PDT | ||||
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| I'm skipping the BT links unless someone requests them.
Moi Dix Mois - Dix Infernal: YES!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! OH MY GOD YES!!!!!! I have a love for genuinely overblown goth, and Dix Infernal kicks off with a minute and a half track of muted satanic-sounding mumbling before hitting the Guilty-Gear-X-soundtrack-style metal with harpsicords on assist!!!!!! The rest of the album follows in full nipple-torturing suit. Blackmore's Night - Ghost of a Rose: YES! NO! YES! NO! I was really thirsty for overblown goth for a half hour and this turned up on Pirate's Bay. So promising in concept: Deep Purple guitarist with elfin Stevie-Nicks-style girlfriend make love notes to each other in the form of Renaissance Faire musicke albums. And it delivers on that concept faultlessly, heaping all kinds of faults instead on the kind of mind that would think that was a promising concept. I have a little folder tucked away that contains albums I keep around just to remind me of what a bad idea it is to pursue certain musical concepts and this album is probably going into that folder. Also in there: "The Mask And The Mirror." Sandrose - Sandrose: A ChrisGoes release from a French prog rock band. The chanteuse has a startling voice (is that bad or is it good? you pick. It's jarring anyway.) but much of the noodly instrumentation is both technically competent and interesting enough to bear repeated listenings. But aside from the singer I wouldn't be able to tell these guys from Caravan. The Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society: Another ChrisGoes release of the Kinks waxing very nostalgic for the kind of wee bonny olde nonexistente England that Thomas Kincade would paint. Something like a poppier and more English album of the songs sung in that animated Hobbit movie. (I like those songs too.) Misia - Mars And Roses: Japanese indie-neo-folk, wandering somewhere on the lines of a post sell-out Jewel without the whiny tone and with a nice production team and some professional polish. Misia has an interesting voice which I am becoming more fond of on repeated listenings, but the album has no particularly stand-out songs. AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 5: I guess it's more useful to just chart this one on the map of Aphex albums that saw wider relase. AB5 is betwen Ambient Works 85-92 and the super busy and noisy stuff on, well, Analogue Bubblebath 1. I really like this one, it's probably going to become one of my favorite (if not THE favorite) Aphex Twin albums. I haven't listened to that Fudge Tunnel album yet. :( Or Jaku. |
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Yet More Lightning Music Reviews by 10/12/2004, 11:25pm PDT  I contribute content. by 10/12/2004, 11:49pm PDT Zseni seems different from other people.... smarter, more open minded... NT by 10/13/2004, 1:34am PDT I smell fabulous too. by 10/13/2004, 12:50pm PDT Re: I smell fabulous too. by 10/13/2004, 4:13pm PDT Re: I smell fabulous too. by 10/13/2004, 4:45pm PDT FLAC is 21st century laserdisc by 10/13/2004, 5:40pm PDT Me: shocked by 10/13/2004, 6:58pm PDT Oooh how dare you?!!! by 10/13/2004, 7:58pm PDT Thanks. I wish my old Rio Volt played oggs. NT by 10/13/2004, 7:16pm PDT Specifics on ogg by 10/14/2004, 4:20am PDT Get a clue, bitch. by 10/14/2004, 4:43am PDT Re: Get a clue, bitch. by 10/14/2004, 10:44am PDT |
