Snowtorch!!! (Phideaux)

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Phideaux wrote: See, it's already down a few pegs!  Of course that's because one of the reviewers who gave it 3 stars has revised that to 1 star (except he forgot to change the text of his review to reflect that).  I'm glad he kept listening to it though.  I do believe that the more you hear something the more it opens up -- or in his case closes down.  I guess the more he listened to it the more irritating it sounded.

I've been listening to this a lot in the last week. 

Lozlan wrote: I'll be featuring part uno as the closing number on the next episode of Radio Obscura.

Damn, that's a lot of time you'll be surrendering to us!!!  And we thank you!  I'm so glad you have become possessed!  To be honest, I really love the sort of albums that I need to immediately play again once they are over.  We sort of did make it seem like one should do this with the subliminal 4th track which seems to suggest "The story begins again..."

I think you can hear the full thing on bandcamp.  We have some free tracks for download online (and I can slip you a free .wav file of the full album because when we remastered it, we provided folks with a free lossless download).

From what I understand it is a bit of a let down from Doom and possibly might have been needed as the next stepping stone to Snort Hog.  However, I really love the long song Waiting For The Axe (but it takes a long time to start).  The keyboards are as manic and crazy as some of the stuff in the new album.

Probably the tracks in the middle have put people off.  I realize now it's an album of transitions with maybe one or two actual songs.  The emphasis was definitely on texture, sound, mood and flow.  You sort of have to "get on the ride" and stay on for it to make sense.  The last piece written and recorded for the album was Love Theme From Number Seven/Storia Senti which is probably the most like Snowtorch.

Let me know if you'd like links to the .wav download.

p.s. some people thought it was an improvement on Doom, but most did not.

Sondresae,

Thanks for the kind words.  No worries to write a review, but I'm glad you like the album.  Probably best to ensure you do your english assigments to the best!!!  ;-)

Anyway, we appreciate the comment.

I'm now on my second listen. It is exceptionally good, and, at the moment, most definitely bordering on the masterpiece status.

After a week of intensive listening, I agree that Snowtorch is an excellent album. I'm happy to see the album gets a lot of attention and praise (100 ratings with an average of 4.50, whoa!). However, not to take anything away from the album, I don't think it's the masterpiece people are claiming it to be. It's definitely a solid 4-4.50 star album, but not the kind of a masterpiece Doomsday Afternoon is in my opinion. But, as I said, Snowtorch is indeed an excellent album and perhaps it will even grow on me with time.

Not to criticise, but I have one small gripe with the album and that is the beginning of part two. It's good music, but the way it fades out makes me feel like it doesn't contribute anything to the rest of the song. But if my only complain about the album is something like that, it tells something about the quality of the album.
  

I'm going to go against the grain.

sleeper wrote: Anyone know where I can get a hard copy of this from, I've got high hopes for this album?

Phideaux mentioned they lost the deadline for pressing the CDs, so it may take a wile. However, you can listen to the whole thing on his website.