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NIGHT

Gazpacho

 

Crossover Prog

4.14 | 666 ratings

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Marty McFly
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5 stars I was wondered by seeing here "Night" as crossover prog and as Norway's group. In fact, I used to know simple formula, Sweden = rock, Finland = metal, Norway = ? Now I know it, they can be also good. It's just they're not so well known country (in prog things). I was also thinking about this Radiohead connection, but only thing reminding me this is J. H. Ohme's voice. Magical, on the other side of unpleasant vocal type. Very strange one, maybe even reminding vocalist of Muse, but I'm not so sure in that. But similar to RH ? Total of 53 minutes, divided in 5 tracks, which makes average length about 10 minutes. Not so RH style though.

I see Night more like post-rock influenced. Few, long tracks with a lot of space to improvisation, tracks taking its time to present what they want to tell (few strange moments also, explained later). To be honest, I listen to this album, when I'm very tired physically (not psychically, because I almost never am), because of its softness, hypnotic flow (second time I imagine what would drugs do to me with connection to this album), but long passages can lead to idea that ""nothing's going on here"", which is of course not truth. It just takes time.

"Dream of Stone" sets the mood to entire album. Everything what will come later is quite similar, but I mean similarity as in post-rock, not that all tracks are the same, or clones of each other. As in matter of PR (this album is reminding me it more and more), you can't just wait for riffs, admire drums playing, or rock'n'roll style. I'm trying to practice unique approach to every album in its own way (if I like it, then I'm trying to find out how this all were meant to be). So I feel it. "Chequered Light Buildings" continues in unspoken story about poetic feelings (well, there are lyrics and Story of album, which is sometimes more important to me). And so on, describing each track here is extremely difficult, because I want to take this record as one track, one tale.

For me, important thing is that there's a deepness to which I can look and not see the end. That there's a unique combination of vocals with instruments (but voice is main instrument here at these times), which is very haunting. As I said at "Part 2 by MotW", ethereal beauty. And I feel it again. Every sound has its place and helps to form overall composition perfectly.

Five stars for not from this Earth record (maybe Moon, or Pluto Night)

Marty McFly | 5/5 |

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