NUCLEUS

Anekdoten

Heavy Prog

4.02 | 461 ratings

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ZowieZiggy
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Anekdoten is digging deeper in the Crimson-esque sounds. Same sort of tortured, heavy and dark substance. They deliberately opted for a heavy, almost metal style for the title track.

At times too noisy for my ears, I'm afraid. To endure the cacophony of Harvest is rather challenging. Especially when you bear in mind that it started with an almost pastoral mood. Regressive work? Probably.

Some break during the suite Book Of hours. A moment of relief : quiet, dark, repetitive and building crescendo. Some sumptuous mellotron, great and impressive drumming. This is a fabulous piece of music for four minutes. It will then hesitate between Van Der Graaf Generator and Crimson again. One of the highlight, especially during the first movement Pendulum Swing.

I guess that Rubankh is another tribute to Crimson, but at this time of the album, I wonder where is the creativity of Anekdoten. Well hidden, that's a given!

Fortunately, another VDGG inspired song prevents this album from flooding. I like pretty much the very dark atmosphere of Here. Languishing, hesitant, melancholic. My favourite form this album but I am completely biased with Van Der Graaf, so.Great cello as well. A jewel of a dark song.

To be honest (as I always tend to be), I have to say that This Far From The Sky is a powerful number. Even if hard and complex (but the latter feature is an integrant part of this band), it holds certain magical atmosphere. The Red album influence can't be denied. But since it was one of my favourite Crimson release, I can't complain.

The whole of this work sounds as d�j� vu. IMHHO, this band is quite overrated if you bear in mind that most of their work is derivative either from Crimson or VDGG. But still, Nucleus is a good album and deserves three stars as such.

ZowieZiggy | 3/5 | 2008-1-12

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