FRANCES THE MUTE

This album fulfilled my expectations 100%. It got everything i like in music: Raw intense rock, spacey soundscapes, dark and light moments. It is the first record ever to make the chills through my spine 13 times. From salsa to pure raw rock, to mad psycho sounds. Cygnus starts with a kickass acustic guitar intro and after just 1 minute it is at the top, and it wouldnt fall down until the record stopped spinning. L'via's beautiful and explosive lyrics(in spanish) was a surprise, and a hell of a good one...me personally like spanish better than american..both the fast parts and the slow latino/salsa parts are absolutely amazing. The Widow is the only radiofriendly song on the record, and i dont feel it is there to make money, because it fits in perfectly as a powerful second intro to the album. Juan Alderetes fretless is awsome and Fleas trumpet make this song a complete experience. The next one, Miranda, make me feel the way i feel when listening to "Ummagumma disk 2 " by Pink FLoyd. A perfect song for relaxation and mind- free'er. Cassandra is the longest track on the cd and is a full-worthy ending of the cd. The completeness of the band has now kicked up from 90%-100% from DITC, even though i find that album just as good as this one, in another way ofcourse. Frances The Mute is honestly one of the best records i know, and TMV really make me hopeful when it come to the future of music. Trully a masterpiece of music.(since they dont like to be put in a specific genre, and i neither, i wont mension prog, even though i can hear some hint of it). Listen to it as a piece, it wont work at a vorspiel, it needs concentration.