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darkshade 
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 19 2005 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 10964 |
 Posted: June 20 2013 at 19:03 |
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Don't listen to them. It's a grower for sure, especially the first half, but contains some of their best moments.
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Knobby
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Joined: May 31 2013 Location: Ontario Status: Offline Points: 490 |
Posted: June 20 2013 at 19:06 |
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I read that the the first half is the real heavy, harsh guitar-sound half. A different direction for them. Not metalprog in the least, still....
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: June 20 2013 at 19:07 |
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Hmmmm, how to put this....that's complete total bullsh*t, Knobby!  Some people seem to have this screwy idea that the album is full of growled metal vocals - I think the total length of growls over the whole album would barely equal 10 seconds - and although many of the tracks have a harder sound, all those quirky time changes, complex lyrics and their usual inventive musical arrangements are all there. Killer vocal melodies as usual too. Possibly one of the best from last year! 
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Knobby
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Joined: May 31 2013 Location: Ontario Status: Offline Points: 490 |
Posted: June 20 2013 at 21:59 |
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Mammoth seems to be getting the least love today.
I rate it highly though.
The first track is quite heavy and almost no keys . This is what Im fearing "The Void" is like.
Am I incorrect? Is there still a fair amount of organ? How much of The Void is instrumental.
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darkshade
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Posted: June 20 2013 at 23:35 |
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There are plenty of keys in the second half of the album, but there is some in the first half, I think, but if so, not prominent at all. There's one instrumental, and an epic as well. |
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HemispheresOfXanadu
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Joined: June 28 2012 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4339 |
Posted: June 21 2013 at 00:42 |
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Yeah, it's really just Turn to Gravel, Voluntary Slavery and This Matter of Mine that remotely resemble metal.
The rest has a generally dirty guitar tone, but sounds more like their earlier output. More prominent bass and way more keys. The instrumental Seventeen Again even uses a piano reminiscent of I *think* Green Waves. Where the Lights Are Low is sort of, uh... angry bluesy jazz or something. I recommend giving Seventeen Again your first listen then Ludvig and Sverker.
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darkshade
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Posted: June 21 2013 at 13:49 |
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Plus, Ludvig & Sverker is one of the most beautiful songs the band has ever written, and the piano version even more so.
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infocat
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Posted: June 21 2013 at 22:56 |
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What is that song about? I love it, but I get kind of a creepy vibe from it.
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HemispheresOfXanadu
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Posted: June 21 2013 at 23:19 |
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http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107859440247/
Good question. At a guess I'd say it's parents burying stillborn twins and trying to cope with it.
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Kazza3
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Joined: November 29 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 557 |
Posted: June 21 2013 at 23:59 |
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Hemispheres, you're on the right track, Rikard answered the question on their facebook a while back:
"Regarding Ludvig & Sverker, it might be sharing too much... But: it's my tribute to two twin boys who were born way to early and therefore they were stillborn. They were identical twins and suffered from a complication known as TTTS http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin-to-twin_transfusion_syndrome I've been thinking all the time that this is too much to share and that the lyrics to the song was sufficient, but so many people have asked me/us about this now and I feel that I might as well let you know about my sons. The one thing I don't want with sharing this, and the reason I've been holding off I guess it that I'm not in any way looking for pity or sympathy from a bunch of people I don't know. I HAD to write this song and I wanted Beardfish to play and record it and I have no problem talking about Ludvig and Sverker but maybe not to strangers... I do however feel that this is an oppurtunity to make people aware of the fact that things do go wrong from time to time during pregnancy, more often than people will tell you. TTTS is a condition that can happen to anyone who's pregnant with identical twins. Sincerely - Rikard" |
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infocat
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 01:55 |
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Man, that is deep! And I feel bad for taking it all the wrong way. I like the song even more now!
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 14:06 |
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 14:10 |
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Heh, how much were we pumping this album a little while back, Tom?!  If I recall last time, you were telling me that `Void' front cover was one of the best in modern progressive history?!  
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 14:21 |
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: June 22 2013 at 14:22 |
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Dumb iPod............
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Earendil
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Posted: July 01 2013 at 13:25 |
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I think The Void is passable at best, but I like Beardfish a lot. Traffic Pt 2 is the best post-70's 70's-sounding prog album that I've heard.
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infandous
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Joined: March 23 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2447 |
Posted: July 01 2013 at 15:57 |
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Beardfish is my favorite band currently, almost entirely on the strength of Destined Solitaire. That album just hit me at the right time in all the right ways for me.
The rest of their catalog is good to great for me. The Void is half great, though I admittedly can enjoy the 3 "heavy" tracks when I'm in the right mood. I found them terribly disappointing initially, but they are actually quite well done and the energy the exude is impressive. I hesitate to call them "metal", since they still are infused with that 70's vibe Beardfish just seems to do so well. Traffic Part 2 I love, but for some reason I find the title track just "good", rather than great. Still good enough that it's probably my second favorite Beardfish album. |
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: July 06 2013 at 02:41 |
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I just read Rikard's note above regarding 'Ludvig and Sverker' and it just brings this song to a whole new level of emotion.
My only gripe with 'The Void' is how they've presented it - that hideous cover photo - it just baffles me. I wasn't going to get this album because of it, and then I get a batch of vinyl from Syn Phonic and Walker has accidentally slipped a copy into the lot. I mentioned the mistake to him and he had no clue he did it........I gave it a listen, it kicked me in the guts, I forwarded 20 bucks to Greg and was quite pleased the mishap took place !!
Fantastic album.
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geekfreak
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Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
Posted: December 22 2013 at 11:11 |
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as I have to say. I`ve never listen to  BRAEDFISH. So Will some one please tell me. Which  BREADFISH album I should listen to. First    one. As I would like to enter. Into the music of BRAEDFISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.    
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proggman
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Posted: December 22 2013 at 18:56 |
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Har, har, we have sailed far From Norway to Peru Whatever Captain Flurry says You must believe, it’s true
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When he rides, my fears subside.
For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
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