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OF THE LAST HUMAN BEING

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

 

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4.17 | 65 ratings

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Mellotron Storm
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3 stars "Of The Last Human Being" was just announced as the album of the year here at Prog Archives for 2024. I actually saw that this morning sometime after 3am! I had no idea that it was to be announced today, but what a coincidence to be announced the day I give my 3 star review(haha). I have my reviews lined up three or more days in advance, so the timing is crazy. I thought about postponing this, out of respect, but please understand the timing of this review has nothing to do with today's news here.

That's out of the way. Only 15 people voted for it? Times have changed here. I last participated in 2017 with twice that number of people voting for the winner, and it was only open to collaborators back then, times have changed. I have to give this band a ton of credit for what they came up with here. No I don't like it, just like their previous two albums, but they went all out with the packaging etc. I just live in another dimension it seems when it comes to my world view versus theirs.

Again a very heavy lyric based album, with some extreme vocals and sounds contrasted with the more laid back stuff. You have to like Nils voice or your going to have trouble with this band, like myself. I must say that as an anti-social person I agree with Nils lyrics on "The Gift" when he says he hates the poetry of Google, Twitter and podcasts. And he hates the language of downloads, Myspace and Facebook. Then he says "I can't believe I put this garbage in a song". Go Nils! As usual it's a long one at over 66 minutes and with 13 tracks.

The negatives for me as far as the lyrics go are about evil, because I believe it's real. Like the evil smiling face on the cover I saw from my first look at it. It's from the line on the song "El Evil" where it says "...nothing from here will outshine the smiling face of evil". And those final words in the lyric sheet for the silly song "We Must Know More". In other words there's nothing new for these guys lyrically. If you've heard this band before then you know what to expect, which is why I'm kicking myself for actually buying this cd.

Again credit to the band for the long-winded liner notes talking about how this album was made, going through each song in detail. Very impressive, and for fans a real bonus. It's tempting just to quote the description given here by Carla for each song. RYM users have this latest album by SGM a step below their first three which are rated fairly evenly. And I agree. And that's with close to a 1,000 ratings on the latest album, and more ratings than that for the other three. Bye SMG!

Mellotron Storm | 3/5 |

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