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A NATURAL DISASTER

Anathema

 

Experimental/Post Metal

3.94 | 590 ratings

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alainPP
5 stars 2003 or the pivotal age for them! the last before crises, between them or with their distribution box, in short a major group polluted by reality after a fine day which had still shaken me by a singular creativity.

1. Harmonium latent title with angelic voices, a dithyrambic crescendo and the explosion that goes with it; the Douglas and Cavanagh families provide everything here and the bass is gripping; in short, a heating title where the latency takes you to the guts 2. Balance trip hop like The Gathering may have done at the end; a piano dub, a who knows what, a still omnipresent bass that reverberates the synths and the voices; it's soft but we are wary and right there the weighted explosion arrives, the guitar accompanies and roars just at the end 3. Closer goes on, I like it... prog in there, colored notes on violet, a vocoder and here we go... to see in concert for the energy, the intensity of some sounds put on one after the other; title that drives you into a trance until the sounds of a whale that you would think you could hear at the end 4. Are You There? with Anna for the spectral voices, Vincent who seems to moan, Daniel who accompanies her with this plaintive guitar; when emotion meets sidereal beauty, when the music starts from its strengths to melt and melt and melt... are you still there or not, a slow majestic melancholic melody... go one more pad shot before Anna for one last time, beauty I say 5. Childhood Dream ah the masterful interlude there with these voices of innocent children and this bewitching guitar, on an Anglican 'forbidden games', bass line to clean the speakers, sublime I listen to, the piano too simple, too enchanting , everything is perfect, fortunately I remain objective 6. Pulled Under at 2000 Meters a Second comes with a sinister blow on a suffocating bass and it explodes; yes Anathema seems to want to return to its... its of yesteryear; disturbing for those who don't know, yes, yes... it's in the song!, yes, a rock metal title à la Katatonia, the bassist's break keeps the heavy energy before John hits in a disorderly way and leaves the fury ... ordered out or the other way around, the cries roar, act against our will, brief fury, fury, fury and enjoyment, rest for my pregnant 7. A Natural Disaster for the second major piece, eponymous, based on deadly delicacy, on vocal beauty, the one where Lee demonstrates that it takes more than just sex!! to melt us; his piece with Vincent as an echo, the title overwhelming as a famous film critic said; a nod to the abyssal darkness of My Dying Bride, a snub to the musical world. Those who have listened will never be the same again and vaccinated with stacked sounds to stay correct; beautiful until the end of .. my finger 8. Archaic-looking flying, coming from farther than there, the plaintive, compassionate cry, the light of the guitar that keeps hope alive; when depression can be beautiful, when the bewitching sound.. what if I fly away, to join my bride, and if I fly away to forget everything that makes me suffer, and if... come on Daniel launch your notes we listen, there is nothing more to say... 9. Electricity no MDG but Anathema; a piano, sounds from elsewhere and then the melancholy monolithic, solemn, ethereal title, to settle down; yes Anathema performs a clean, original, crystalline sound; a slow depressive lament that makes you think about the sound, about the place you put in it... when it's beautiful you feel the communion, end 10. Violence continues on the monolithic piano title, yet?; the slap for an end of reign? No, you're not following, 2 minutes of warm-up for a musical explosion, a moment of syncopated trance, an air that grows, a powerful instrumental combining beauty and oneirism, the second third refers to the notes of creation, a sound of 'Rencontres du simply 3rd type

An album that goes beyond sadness and demonstrates the musical oxymoron in which after the rain comes the good weather, after despair comes this sidereal beauty that fills with joy, sublime for those who know how to listen. For those who put 5 for albums that are worth 3, I have to go up my initial 4... Such is life.

alainPP | 5/5 |

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