THE OCEAN AND THE SUN

The Sound of Animals Fighting

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The Sound Of Animals Fighting are an experimental band with great instrumentation, beautiful guitar melodies, amazing drums and loads of all kinds of experiences.

After a short intro, The Ocean And The Sun comes in, and this one is one of the weakest songs in the album, it's just uninteresting, fortunately it is followed by I, The Swan, a great song, the children voices fit strangely well and the explosion by the end of the song is epic, a great one. Another Leather Lung is another great song, with really weird screaming and out-of-this-world drumming, contrasting with the calm melodies of the rest of the song. Cellophane has one of the most beautiful guitar melodies ever, really, then the voice comes in, softly, you can't understand a word he says, but it doesn't matter, the depth of this song is incredible, meanwhile the song accelerates until an insane drum break and a really weird guitar solo, one of the greatest songs on the album. Uzbekistan is the most experimental track ever, is completely insane, the weirdest drumming, the altered voices, the hypnotizing synth, all the noise, it's just spectacular. The album finishes with On The Occasion Of Wet Snow a song as weak as the first one.

On the negative side, first: fillers! although Chinese New Year is entertaining, Lude is completely pointless and Ahab is just noise; second: woman talking! in almost every song there's a woman in a awful monologue, with a monotonic voice, really irritating, talking about saving the world or whatever, almost excruciating.

A great album, very experimental, very original, really well composed, great musicians, an excellent album.

JTP88 | 4/5 | 2009-2-26

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