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DOWSING ANEMONE WITH COPPER TONGUE

Kayo Dot

 

RIO/Avant-Prog

3.70 | 198 ratings

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The Squirrel
5 stars Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With a Copper Tongue,

First, I must say that I bought maudlin of the Well - Bath, Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye, Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With a Copper Tongue recently and decided to review all these three albums at the same time. I bought Bath a week earlier than the Kayo Dots. I will compare the three albums during the review a lot, so try not to let that bother too much. I’m trying to figure out the key for this amazingly evolving music. For these three reviews I got an idea to write down my thoughts and opinions about the albums during the time I listen these albums and section my experiences into parts. So, I decided to give four weeks of listening time hoping it would be enough. I will start this review with a section, where I comment about the albums in four parts. So a week of listening and some thoughts about that experience written in that particular week. I hope I made it clear enough. This paragraph can be found in all the three reviews.

The experience table,

First week:

Wow! Very odd music. If I had to give my first impression in a one word, I would say: Chaos. Pure chaos. There is really nothing to grasp to. The step from maudlin to ’Choirs of the Eye’ is rather staggering, but widened to this album it begins to look very huge. Though I own Bath only. After a week of this musical mess from Kayo Dot , and the decent quality of maudlin, I really have a desire to listen the one in between: Leaving Your Body Map. After the first week of listening this album, quite furiously actually, I can’t say much. I can say that I enjoyed some, but major part of my opinion is quite undecided. I hardly remember parts from the songs, but the parts I remember really does sound good in my head. I must listen more, I can’t give a solid opinion about anything about the album, really. The songs are extremely hard to listen.

Second week:

Starting to see some light. I mean, the Kayo Dot’s don’t seem to be that different than I first thought. This music is still extremely hard to listen, but very enjoyable. I start to remember parts from here and there, but still not much. This record need a lots of spins more. I’ve reduced the listening, but still the CD spins quite much in my player.

Third week:

The third week was very enlightening. I feel I’m ready to name the best songs at this point. All the songs are great, but now I feel that ’Aura On An Asylum Wall’ and ’Immortelle And Paper Caravelle’ are the best ones. The opener track is very good, with ’beautiful’ singing, I might say. ’___ On Limpid Form’ is rather disturbing in the end, but I find it very fascinating. I believe if one listens this song too much, it may drive crazy. So beware. ’Amaranth the Peddler’ is excellent finisher. I feel refreshed after listening the album through.

Fourth (and fifth) week:

After furious listening, the album is beginning to open to me. The four weeks was barely enough to make a review, so just in case I actually postponed my decision for this album for a week of listening. All the songs are marvellous, I can’t single out one best song. The enlightenment of these last weeks was great experience.

This album is much like the previous Kayo Dot. I don’t’ mean that as a bad factor. I mean that there wasn’t much evolvment between the Kayo Dots as there were between Bath and Choirs of the Eye. This album include death metal, prog, jazz, classical, maybe more jazz than the previous work. This album is just as incredible than Choirs of the Eye, maybe even better, if its possible. The psychedelic feeling through the album is hooking. In this album, I found the link between traditional Japanese music as well as in Choirs of the Eye. I found beautiful melodies, good, versatile singing, and deep, amazing feelings too. This album is a mystery that everyone should try to solve, it can be rather difficult, but in the end, it’s so rewarding. The brilliancy of this album is incredible. I cannot call this album nothing else, than a masterpiece of prog-music. Get this album for your collection, I recommend it by heart. Five out of five, a masterpiece.

The Squirrel | 5/5 |

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