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"Ka explores different themes theough his albums. After the chess on "The Night's Gambit", the book "The Manchurian Candidate" on "Days with Dr. Yen Lo", then the samurai with "Honor Killed The Samurai", he now turns to Greek mythology with "Orpheus vs. The Sirens ". Thus each title of the project...""Ka explores different themes theough his albums. After the chess on "The Night's Gambit", the book "The Manchurian Candidate" on "Days with Dr. Yen Lo", then the samurai with "Honor Killed The Samurai", he now turns to Greek mythology with "Orpheus vs. The Sirens ". Thus each title of the project refers to a character or a famous passage of mythology: Hades, Sisyphus, Oedipus ... As usual, the Brooklyn MC expresses his experience on each piece, talking about his growing up as a teenager in New York devastated by crack and crime. Thus, Ka compares to Orpheus. Ka joined the Animoss beatmaker to form the Hermit & The Recluse duo. Animoss productions, rather minimalist and pure, fit perfectly into the mythological universe developed in the lyrics. With "Orpheus vs. The Sirens", Ka will have, once again, adapted a theme in the best way. He comes to affirm his talent and add a new record to his perfect discography. For personal reasons, "Orpheus vs. The Sirens" is my favorite album from Ka's discography.
9/10
Best track: "Sirens""[+]Reply
"This shit is mind-blowing. Everything about it. I feel like I am being deprogrammed as I listen. My conceptions of harmony and melody are peeled away. The musicians are not only doing weird stuff, they are doing weird stuff with complete focus and presence, they are just throwing most of the rule...""This shit is mind-blowing. Everything about it. I feel like I am being deprogrammed as I listen. My conceptions of harmony and melody are peeled away.
The musicians are not only doing weird stuff, they are doing weird stuff with complete focus and presence, they are just throwing most of the rules out the window but doing it with a clear eye and purpose.
The way the left and right guitars are playing off each other in the dissonant (yet somehow never fully cacophonous) way they do feels like its both ripping my brain in 2 but also expanding it. I can't make sense fully of the effect of the music so I can't describe it well either.
The drummer is a stud, the bassist is doing cool stuff, the guitars and the vocalist are all doing cool stuff. The ambient bits are beautifully realized, and the riffs are stunning. But this album doesn't feel like just a concatenation of dope-as-fuck riffs that are then built upon and around. Instead the songs and the pieces of music all feed off each other and enhance the whole experience. The rhythms and the noisy builds and the breakdowns and the solos don't get short shrift behind the riffage. Its all a fully integrated whole.
I haven't gotten to the stage of listening (on my 3rd listen now) where I fully try to work out what leads to what and where things happen in relation to others or looking at the lyrics or themes etc. I am still in the early phases where I notice each time I listen a 100 little details I missed last time and I am just sitting slack jawed as I hear some mind expanding shit. This may be a masterpiece.
I am no Death/Avant Garde fan, insofar as I heard maybe 5 metal albums from the entirety of last year and 3 this year. BUT as a music listener, I think this album is one of the best examples in awhile of an album that has all the signs of being a masterpiece. Its pretty unique as far as what I have heard (Ulcerate had a similarly mind-expanding album last year, but its not like it was the same as this - just some similar DNA), it features truly incredible musicianship, it flows and sounds great the whole way through, and it just kinda puts me in a waxing poetic headspace that masterpieces do.
Just wanna say 1 small thing that I love, the way the drums toward the end of track 2 "Inexorably Ousted Sente" just make me think the "CD" is skipping (although not a CD so the way it makes me think its glitching hard) and the way this is done so savagely and perfectly in a time signature and way that seems almost impossible is so cool.
Oh and the whole album is brilliant, but the title track may be the song of the year so far. Its unspeakably excellent.
I think I'll end my "review" here and go listen to this a couple more times. Peace!"[+]Reply
"Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 is not only one of the finest pieces of musical theatre to date, but this cast recording is recorded with such mastery that it is a definitive archive of the musical. It is a complete recording of the entire show, and the mixing and masterin...""Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 is not only one of the finest pieces of musical theatre to date, but this cast recording is recorded with such mastery that it is a definitive archive of the musical. It is a complete recording of the entire show, and the mixing and mastering of the studio production is perfect. The arrangements and orchestrations of the songs are hypnotizing and beautiful, and it's a perfect dramatic ride from beginning to end."[+]Reply
"Put out after 'Defenders of the Faith' which was always going to be a hard act to follow. I remember when this came out it got hammered in reviews due to them using synth guitars. The title track is up there with the best tracks they've made. There's a couple of songs where the synth guitars are ...""Put out after 'Defenders of the Faith' which was always going to be a hard act to follow. I remember when this came out it got hammered in reviews due to them using synth guitars. The title track is up there with the best tracks they've made. There's a couple of songs where the synth guitars are quite prevalent but overall it's a stock standard meat and potatoes classic metal album. Overall it's an average album from them. Nothing to get excited about but it's still alright."[+]Reply
"It's not the lightning in a bottle that the first half of Golden Hour was but she's still a really nice songwriter w/ a winning pop country sounding voice. It's pretty solidly pop here genre-wise pulling bits and pieces from other genres when it's needed: weird vocal effects and autotune, some el...""It's not the lightning in a bottle that the first half of Golden Hour was but she's still a really nice songwriter w/ a winning pop country sounding voice. It's pretty solidly pop here genre-wise pulling bits and pieces from other genres when it's needed: weird vocal effects and autotune, some electronica-inspired synths, samples & beats here and there, but it's typical pop structures w/ a really reverb heavy psychedelic feeling we're used to hearing from Kacey at this point.
Clearly a high budget production value as she used the same production team from her last few albums. Clearly an experienced mixing team & nice sounding mixes.
Some corny lyrics, and certain tracks in the middle of the album feel pretty cliché or unoriginal. This doesn't strike me personally as a dramatic shift in artistic direction for here or like it's particularly making any sort of statement. I think these are honest songs from Kacey detailing an unfortunate antithesis: the ending of the (presumably same?) relationship she blissfully described on Golden Hour in her divorce with Ruston Kelly. In fact, the worst thing about this in fact it's almost invalidating to her best tracks "Slow Burn" "Oh, What A World" or perhaps it's relieving that it's validation those sentiments and emotions expressed in those songs are at best fleeting and temporary."[+]Reply