What albums did you listen to today?...continued

These last couple of days:

Edited by Modrigue - February 20 2017 at 03:41

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Also Franco Falsini's solo disc `Cold Nose' (which seems to pop up on this page once in a while) is a ambient/electronic/Ashra-like stunner, although I seem to recall you've listened to that before, Tymon?

I haven't. I need to check it out, as the "Ashra-like" adjective sounds delicious.

The Scorpions - "In Trance": Nice guitar tone, and it generally rocks, but the air of self-reflecting melancholy is all over this thing, especially lyrically. I always thought the cover was hilarious raunch, but now I'm wondering if something else is going on here. "Without your guitar, you're just another nobody waiting to die. I might as well just make love to your guitar."

Sgt Peppers

Last two afternoons:

Ashra – Blackouts
Earth and Fire – s/t
Franco Falsini – Cold Nose
Tangerine Dream – Underwater Sunlight
Rush – Moving Pictures
Rush – A Farewell to Kings
Alpha Wave Movement – Earthen
Steve Roach – Painting in the Dark
Steve Roach – Arc of Passion
Deuter - Aum
Gong – Gazeuse!
Can – Future Days
Can – Landed

Neu! – 2 - meh, pretty throwaway album without actually being bad as such...just eclipsed by pretty much every other Krautrock album out there!

Deuter – Celebration – It’s really lovely, Sam, has a frequently cool hippie/acid folk flavour to it, and although it’s often gentle, it’s still nowhere near being `New Age’, and there’s one particular stunning longer experimental Krautrock–styled electronic/acoustic piece on the first side. Will post the review tomorrow.

Not really too sure yet what to make of `Landed', Sam. I just picked it up the other day unexpectedly, gave it a spin today and found it wildly inconsistent. Some of it seems alarmingly straight, parts of the poppier elements are a bit mundane, and the most interesting `Unfinished' track arrives a little too late at the very end of the album. Still, I'm on a second spin and finding very cool stuff popping up here and there, so will stick to it. Anyone here a massive fan of it?

I liked `Landed' a little better today on my second listen, Sam, but there's still large stretches where it's quite forgettable. I kind of felt like I could have sent the time listening to better albums from then.

That's a nice RPI album that Gruppo 2001 one too...I've always argued that the first track sets a pretty high standard that a lot of the rest of the album doesn't quite capture, but there's still some pretty good other stuff on it. Not one of the essentials, but certainly one of the appreciated!

I've got that Gruppo 2001 album on a nice reissued Mini LP CD set, Sam, the vintage Italian discs always look great as those. It comes with a bonus single at the end of the disc that was quite charming too.

Oh no, has the vocalist left F.E.M? Where did you read that?

Definitely one of the standout things about the second disc....

Man, that will make three vocalists in as many albums!