DISTANT SATELLITES

It's my birthday so I gave myself time to listen to and review a new album of a band that's new for me. It is time to introduce the English band "Anathema" which has done eleven studio albums between 1993 and 2014. The genre "Experimental/Post-metal", I have no idea what it is but it(the genre title) doesn't sound good. I would like to call it boring music but I cede. This eleventh album by Anathema: "Distant Satellites" from 2014 has a red and quite anonymous cover and it features the musicians "Vincent Cavanagh"(voice, guitar, vocoder), Danny Cavanagh(guitar, keyboards, vocie), Jamie Cavanagh (bass), John Douglas(drums, keyboards) and Lee Douglas(voice).

I am sorry but after some listening to this music I can't help but feeling bored and a bit tormented. I have hard to see charm and hear lovely music in this even if I try. I found the compositions whiny and the performances so unvaried that I felt it was all the same song. That hadn't of course been a problem if it was a good song. Of course the album has great moments! Just as the landscape has its valleys are there mountains to climb and views to oversee. This lowland has some hills of which the second part of "Arial"(6/10) is the highest. From that hill you can stand and feel the power of being a living man. But the climbing uphill was whiny as usual. The track with the famous name "Anathema" had similar merits(6/10) that made me overlook my difficulties. The instrumental ending of "Take shelter" wasn't bad at all(6/10).

The other compositions weren't necessarily bad but definitely boring and I do not recommend this record to anyone. I know music is a matter of taste and this was not in my taste. Though do I recommend one song: "Ariel" for its instrumental second half and I feel generous enough to give the record two stars.