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Glad you like.  [img=http://www.crf2.com/images/smilies/headbanger.gif]

 

Me:  Neurosis, The Eye of Every Storm, Spotify 'EP' version (Burn/Shelter/A Season in the Sky/I Can See You).

 

These guys understand patience and how to build up an atmosphere like Ridley Scott did in Alien, and Talk Talk did on Spirit of Eden.  I love that riff at 5:07 in "A Season in the Sky", and the song is half over by then.  Including that one dissonant chord that sounds 'off' -- there's something so perfectly 'off' about it.  Auto-tune must seem so quaint to them.

 

I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good blast of an album that doesn't let up, like Shotgun Messiah's Violent New Breed -- but too many other bands don't understand how to contrast dynamics like this.  They think, "oh, let's just play a ballad", when what they needed to do instead is to just project -- I don't know what, whatever the mood entails -- malice, grief, transformation, an undercurrent of potential energy, a DC offset, premonition of the heaviness to come...something.

 

NOW OATH BREAKDER SINKS LOW...

 

I mean, they can even make a synthesizer throb heavy...

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Patenbrigade: Wolff,  Baustopp!  -- you would think from their album cover:

 

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...that they're industrial or sprockets or somesuch, but they're actually very pretty electro, the kind with the words "chill" or "3am" in the title.  Varah nahs!

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About the only Christmas music I can tolerate is old school jazz, old school soul, Tchaikovsky, Puppini Sisters, and Reindeer Room.  That last of which is what I've been listening to, on and off today.

 

Also, King Crimson, Larks' Tongues in Aspic

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Big Big Train, English Electric (part one) -- it's like in an alternate universe, Peter Gabriel era Genesis died, and then got reincarnated in this one. 

 

(Too convoluted?)

Thanks Dusty! It almost sounds like Tony Banks is right there.

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Sera Una Noce from MA Recordings at 96K soon to be 172.4K on the next DVD .  This is only possible because  I roll with a ULN8 and the Molly Dooker Enchanted Path Cab/Shiraz.

 

I highly recommend all of the above, but you can get a good deal on the Sera Una Noce DVD if you draw Brian (BHJazz) for the Christmas gift exchange.

 

Thanks Brian, you got very good taste! Awesome detail in the music.

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