AMPUTECHTURE

"Many found it hideous and to other a step ahead, for my, it is a sample that this band gives that to speak as for music... it is a round, rounder album that its previous work with more direct songs, more full with Latin, much more psychedelic and spacer, less instrumental flavor but with much more complexity and the protagonistic inclusion of instruments like saxo, it mentioned and full Latin percussions... Vicarious Atonement is the first track, they are a little more than seven minutes that stroll among the psicodelia, the blues and something of Latin, less violent flavor that its previous beginning songs but I believe that he/she gives idea of what comes in the album, an influence rooted in the psicodelia and the blues. Tetragrammaton strolls among the sound floydiano in several passages, something of krautrock and ambient, some rhythms in extremely progressive destiempo and the classic influences of Rush and Led Zeppelin... almost 17 brutal minutes. Vermicide is the shortest and maybe the one sails. The zeppelin influences appears immediately, he/she reminds me to The Widow of its previous disk. Meccamputechture is almost 12 minutes that you/they remember to its first ep with those harmonies hard rock with psychedelic passages to exception of a saxo intermission with synthesizers bottom in experimental plan, very krautrock. Asylums Magdalena is completely in Spanish. A mixture Latin full between bolero and trova with Mars Volta's characteristic stamp. Acoustics and majestic. Viscera Eyes is of almost 10 minutes. Again they make Gallic of Spanish but this time anything acoustic, again the influence of Rush enters (incredibly there is very much forward of Rush of the half) with synthesizers, alone of guitar very Page and a brutal end. Day of the Baphomets is my favorite one, of 2 minutes. The beginning reminds me to Tool, an alone one of under extremely rude that explodes in a psychedelic " section ", instrumental and progressive, capable full and it is this the sample more proggie of the disk, is sections that you/they remind me vastly to King Crimson and certain instrumental sections very Rush, the difference resides in the Latin incursion with percussions and saxo what you/they give him a very unique touch. BRUTAL. The Deer Harmed mark the end of the disk. It is a luck of blues space jazzoso, full Pink Floyd and that it can be of the pleasure of those lovers of those decadent and slow psychedelic discharges and the end is ahead half indú, a step and interesting of what can bring this band later on. -------------------- My Verdict: A gentleman disk... pa'mi is its best work, without hair in the language say it. It is ahead a very complete album and a step in this grandiose band. If already people like Robert Fripp, Steven Wilson, Mike Portnoy, Rick Wakeman, Neal Peart, Larry Harlow among others speaks marvels of them, I suppose that this disk will end up causing them an infarto of the grandiose thing that it is

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