Eskimo (studio album) by The Residents

From Jboy56 11/12/2023 12:19

This an extreme experience for those who like symbolistic and auditive worlds. VEry well suited for art exhibitions, Relisten index for me is 0

From splashfoop 09/23/2016 07:28

Creo que este es el mejor trabajo de The Residents, aunque también el más hermético.

A challenging and innovative recording. Not to everyone's taste but if you like out of the ordinary music and are unfamiliar with this band this record is good place to start.

From Kalos 01/25/2016 13:33

Eskimo is great if you listen to it as an audio-story.
In my opinion is the story of a community of Eskimos who live in the Arctics. Then come the American colonizers, with their machines and their capitalism. After violent brainwashing manipulations (in tracks 4 and 5) eventually the Eskimos are converted to the capitalist religion (with the prayer "CO-CA COLA IS LIFE!")

The story is acted (not simply told) like you are a curious voyeurist, and you can understand it through symbolic sounds (the cry of a baby could be the purity, then there are the american machines in tracks 3 and 4). Every sound has a role in the story, so that when you listen to the machines, the power of their symbolic meaning hits you more than 1000 words)

Of course this is just my interpretation, but it works. This is art, and art is open to interpretations. I just care about the fact that if I listen to Eskimo this way..the effect is really powerful, envolving, vivid, like a movie made of sounds!

Musically is really appreciating their use of "wind" and other natural sounds, it's at the same time one of the early ambient albums, an art performance, kind of tribal music, a fake documentary, a work of field recordings...!

I admit that some parts in tracks 3 4 and 5 are not that vivid, and the album is a bit boring there. That's why my vote is "only" 8,5