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And the first one is screwing around at the expense of sounding good.

The first album also has a bunch of duds and doesn't feel like a very cohesive album.  The second album is very consistent and at least feels like every song belongs on the same album as the others. Sure, it feels like a lesser Western Culture, but it's still pretty awesome.


Edited by Pnoom! - August 14 2008 at 16:30

rileydog22 wrote: NaturalScience wrote: Aksak Maboul is a really great band.  I am thoroughly enjoying both their albums - currently listening to their debut, Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine, and it's a varied and interesting work, borrows from a lot of different styles. Onze Danses is pretty much the greatest thing ever.

Except the second album is significantly better.

NaturalScience wrote: Les Morts Vont Vite will suit you very nicely.

Well, Pat, if you like it... what's the statistical likelihood that I'll like it as well...?

Almost certainly, going by recent experience!

NaturalScience wrote: Aksak Maboul is a really great band.  I am thoroughly enjoying both their albums - currently listening to their debut, Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine, and it's a varied and interesting work, borrows from a lot of different styles.

Onze Danses is pretty much the greatest thing ever. 

Aksak Maboul is a really great band.  I am thoroughly enjoying both their albums - currently listening to their debut, Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine, and it's a varied and interesting work, borrows from a lot of different styles.

James wrote: The first description also sounds like Shub-Niggurath who sound nothing like Guapo.  Listen the guitar on Shub-Niggurath albums, it's even more agony (but good agony) than Trigaux. I listened to Shub-Niggurath's third album earlier and oh my... it's quite a departure from Les Morts Vont Vite yet it's utterly brilliant as well! It goes further way from chamber prog and sounds completely alien.  It sounds far less structured and melodic but I love the chaotic madness! It's a push for me, as to whether it's darker than Les Morts Vont Vite or not... but oh my, is it a good album! Just be careful though... don't expect a follow-on from Les Mort Vont Vite (or the self-titled debut), this is proper avant-prog.  This is noisey, harsh, unmelodic, clinical and clunky.  I love it!

Oh well, at least I tried!!   Music is 'as hard to describe as the taste of strawberries'. 

I haven't heard Shub-Niggurath yet...   Soon, I hope!  They are starting to look essential...

HughesJB4 wrote: Ladies (well judging by this thread, only Melissa shows up here, so Lady) and Gentlemen, tell me about Guapo, and why you like it. And preferably an overview of musical features/attributes sorta deal as well. Also, tell me about Present, and why you not only like it, but why it seems like Hughesman will possibly enjoy it.

Hello Harry, one RIO Lady reporting for duty (although I believe there are others about... Cleo?)

Guapo: have a glance at the 'Guapo Appurrreciation Thread' for fulsome praise, descriptive flights of fancy, etc.   The short answer is: intense, sinister, intellectual, dark, if Lord Byron and Aleister Crowley had a RIO/avant band...   Has a really distinctive drum sound, kind of crisp, hissy and militaristic.  Bass guitar to the fore, cool keyboards also.  'Elixirs' is a bit of a departure from the previous two albums, with more varied instrumentation - sounds like the soundtrack to a creepy movie.  I've not heard the pre-'Five Suns' stuff.

Present: it sounds like a fantastic combination of man and machine!  (I came up with that on my walk to work this morning! )  It's really quite repetitive (hence the machine part!), and you could call it dark, but it's also jaunty and mischievous (and thus nicely human-sounding, rather than utterly cold).  A less daunting spectacle than UZ, but no less satisfying.  Why would you possibly enjoy it?  Well, for starters, there's Roger Trigaux, whose guitar occasionally sounds like... a person suffering excruciating agony, but enjoying it.

I hope that helps!

Well that actually helps a bit, thank you
Present more electrified hey? Sounds like it's already on the money for my taste if I dug UZ.
*cue other RIO heads for more info*

James wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: Ladies (well judging by this thread, only Melissa shows up here, so Lady) and Gentlemen, tell me about Guapo, and why you like it. And preferably an overview of musical features/attributes sorta deal as well. Also, tell me about Present, and why you not only like it, but why it seems like Hughesman will possibly enjoy it. Guapo's impossible to describe. That's not the answer you wanted, was it? Present are like Univers Zero... only different. Again, that doesn't help, does it? I'm feeling a bit brain dead today, so I'll leave it to Patrick, Assaf, Blowie or Melissa to explain.

QFN=Quoted for n00bishness.

Seriously man, I asked for details, not how incredibly brief and undescriptive your reply could be.
Present like UZ.
That's a start I guess, given Heresie is a 5 star album in my books.