CREATURE OF THE VELVET VOID
Architectural Metaphor
•Psychedelic/Space Rock
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Studio Album, released in 1997 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Creature (4:56) - Deb Young / vocals, drums, percussion, pennywhistle CD Black Widow Records BWRCD 019-2 Thanks to ProgLucky for the additionEdit this entry |
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ARCHITECTURAL METAPHOR Creature Of The Velvet Void ratings distribution
(14 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(7%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(36%)
Good, but non-essential (36%)
Collectors/fans only (21%)
Poor. Only for completionists (0%)
ARCHITECTURAL METAPHOR Creature Of The Velvet Void reviews
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"Kairos" and "March of Wooden Potatoes" have quite good sounding sonic landscapes, and resemble both "Richocet"-era Tangerine Dream and 1990's Hawkwind. Other association from the costructed songs and bolder psychedelic solutions is more stoned and less guitar-emphasizing version of Kingston Wall. "Holographic Caves" has also interesting stonlgy echo-treated approach. I prefer to hear these elements, but the composed melodic tunes like the opener and "All Tomorrow's Parties" are not very fun to listen. Also some experimental tunes like "Holy Ground" do not create a desire to listen them again. This being just my personal opinion ofcourse.
The album ends to a Hawkwind cover, which doesn't in my opinion bring much extra value to the record or to the original song, but certainly is a homage to an innovator. The improvisation following the composed part is very fine. So personally, I think I would enjoy this band more if they would focus more to creating improvisations and electronic soundrealms and do some little more qualitry control in the recordings. But most important is ofcourse that band follows the path the choose themselves. Great promise in the stuff, have to check out if the other records of the group are better.
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Whew, "Kairos", the second track is for example, third one also, but there is something I cannot describe, which is bad. This is maybe third time I've seen this in prog music and was not able to describe it, which annoys me quite a lot. Words are important for telling your opinion, so I'll try to find out what it is.
Maybe it's a fact that these tracks, this music don't flow easily. Psychedelic rock should be about relaxing, well, tripping. But this sounds like it's fully loaded truck which bumps on every hole on a road.
However, despite heavy sounds, which are not as pleasant as I would expect, there are light moments of relatively good music. And also ideas. And by that I mean a lot of ideas. It's whole bunch of unrealised quality. But from accepting it, you are blocked by weird sounding instruments. Woman vocals are great, she has hypnotic voice, which I suppose is ideal.
Well, three stars, it's probably good record and I didn't get it at all, but there's something bad about it. Balanced 3 stars by the way.
Latest members reviews
In hindsight, a mixed bag of crunching nuggets and maybe too much sauce. Some real
potential classics like "Holographic Caves" stand the test of time. I know this because of new
interest due to itunes. That song is timeless, and almost makes sense. It is a litlle-know fact
that Rebecca Guay,
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Report this review (#443855) | Posted by Debster | Saturday, May 7, 2011 | Review Permanlink
Arcmet's debut in the big world (if you don't count 1995's "odysseum galacti", which you
should) find them skirting the amon duul side of krautrock. Female vocals, swirly synths
and all forms of psychedelic guitar make this a minor masterpiece of US space-rock.
Highlights include most of the a
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Report this review (#36419) | Posted by | Monday, June 13, 2005 | Review Permanlink
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