This time they named it "Towards The Silence", and I would just add "the sooner they get
there the better". I mean to keep silence for a while would suite them better. I would have
thought their last opus "Forget the colors" was a kind of mistake and hoped GW will return
to their normal selfs musically and will give us some joy again with their new album. But
obviously it was my mistake, and now I realise that Forget the colors was rather a point of
complete change of direction. Towards the silence is direct continuation of Forget the
colors, and the kind of music they play has nothing to do with neither art rock (the genre
they listed under in these archives) nor symphonic prog with touch of metal (they used to
do), nor progressive music at all. The music they play now is rather techno tresh on the
verge of hardly accessible avantgarde.
I have to stress that first four albums by Garden Wall are very very good, but last two are
just not my cup of tea to say the least. I used to like this band a lot, and they were one my
favorites, but now after Forget the colors and Towards the silence I lost my interest in
them completely.
I am giving it one star here just because I have no option to give it any less, however in
my own ratings these two last albums deserve nothing. One star means "only for
completionists", and I am a kind of completionist myself, but I would not want to have
these cd's in my collection even for free, therefore i definitely cannot recommend it to
anyone who likes first three garden wall's albums (and this sort of music generally) as much
as i do.
I do not mean to offend fans of techno tresh or inaccesible avantgarde, but to me this
music is just unlistenable to. As my interest in garden wall's activity reached it's end I would
rather put a short summary as follows
1. 1993- Principium - very good - solid four stars plus half star for briliant debut
2. 1994 - Path Of Dreams - excellent - masterpiece - 5 stars by all means
3. 1995 - Seduction Of Madness - very good - 4.5 stars - just a tick weaker than Path
4. 1997 - Chimica - 3 stars - mediocre - transitional, much heavier than previous, much
more metal in it, but still not bad
5. 2002 - Forget The Colors - complete change of musical style and direction into heavy
inaccessible avantgardish metal - 1 star in respect to previous works
6. 2004 - Towards The Silence - same as no.5 - not a kind of music I like
eugene |1/5 |
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