SAYı 2

As a legendary band in Turkish rock scene, Nekopsi, finally, released its 2nd album after ten years. this new album is really comprised by various musical approaches like Krautrock, post-punk, psychedelic, experimental, etc. comperatively shorter album than previous one but still it is intensive. Highly recommended for fans of experimental, psychedelic rock.

Ok, this is the long waited album for Nekropsi, everybody thought they disbanded but after 10 years they came with a new album called Sayı 2:10 Yılda Bir (Number 2 : One in Every Ten Years) The title is a mock on the subject that it took 10 years for them to release another album. The first album was the most experimental Turkish record I've heard and it was totally unique and innovative. It's still an ageless record, so the fans were really curious what Nekropsi would bring onto our plate this time. The album is very different in style than the last album, which is good because this means the band is reinventing themselves. The electronic elements are persistent on the album, Die Neue Papa is an example to this. It sounds like German electronica, like Kraftwerk, I wouldn't expect such a track from Nekropsi so this was a sort of surprise. The track Yok Var contains female vocals and sometimes it's similar to Baba Zula, it surely is a homage to Traditional Turkish Music. The track Bağlama, uses the Turkish instrument Bağlama in a way I have never heard before. The tracks Erciyes Şokta and Baba are solid prog metal tunes sometimes sounding like Tool. Now we come to the real gem in the album: Ebo. I think this is the best track on the record, very unqiue, strange, moody, King Crimson like, contains female vocals again, Kerem Tüzün's bass performance on this track is amazing. The production quality is pretty good when compared to other Turkish records, every instrument is perfectly audible and doesn't dominate the other. The main instruments are guitar,bass and drums, but the band sometimes use vocals, sometimes female led improvisational Great Gig in The Sky type vocals, sometimes whispers and talks over the music. The performance of the band members are really good, mostly I think the inclusion of Kerem into the group is a perfect choice. Despite these qualities the album cannot compete with the first one and it's not easy to get into. Sometimes the songs become boring and we search for the experimentalism on the first record, but who knows maybe my ideas on the album will change as i listen to it. 3 stars for this record, keep up the good work guys!

Jumping right in, big quirk on our opener "Harf Devrimi". It does have a sort of Eastern feel to it, as one might expect, but features samples and an interesting trance-like feel. "Erciyes Sokta" features a sort of scat at the start that might remind you of Korn's Jonathan Davis. This is very straight-ahead, of a similar feeling as the opener. Pretty boring, to be honest, though at times featuring some somewhat interesting rhythmic ideas. Thus far, I'm hard-pressed to consider this Prog Metal, too [It's just not]. "Foklar" has more apparent Turkic folk elements [No, this doesn't mean "Folklore" haha; it means "Seals"]. Low clean vocals seem to call another relatively Nu Metal act to mind: System of a Down. But this is far less boisterous and... thus far... far less interesting. It's a "no" from me, guys. "Baba" has a sort of farty synth intro. This rhythm, once it gets going, is basically the same as "Foklar". Really strange. But not in a good way. Little hint of a guitar solo, but... nope. You don't get that here haha.

Back in the club on "Papa 2005". I thought that was German for a second ("...Papa ist Deutsch"?)? I'm really not sure what the appeal is to this here. Merp. And then finally we are back to something intriguing on "Harf Devrimi 2005". Interesting, angular riffs over wild, tinny percussion. Something in this sort of reminds me of Ruins, actually. I guess I'm not too keen on the vocals, to be more frank about that here. Given how actually interesting this track is to what's come before, as for Spotify, it's shocking to me how much less this has been streamed... than literally everything else on the album(!!!). "Yok Var" has a feeling in its choice riffs not dissimilar to some material from their Turkish contemporaries Çilekeş (a band with Alt Metal influence that I feel would very well fit here on ProgArchives). Their first album from a year before this is called Y.O.K. ("none" in Turkish), which is why they really came to mind. But anyways, they are pulling out more rhythmic stops on this one, to a positive effect.

We return to overtly Eastern melodies on "Ebo", and I say praise be, really. The song, much like the rest, is compositionally rather static, but I like the feeling of it a lot. More farty synth (like to a MAX'd extent) is the second version of "Papa 2005". Does absolutely nothing for me... And finally we have "Baglama" with a hypnotic, folksy intro. This slowly, slowly crescendos with light additions of percussion and another string instrument (it can't just be guitar). Not a whole lot here, but I don't mind it.

Overall, just not very progressive, interesting or... anything. There were a few tracks that stuck out, though nothing "Excellent": "Harf Devrimi", "Harf Devrimi 2005" (I didn't even pick up that they were variations of the same track, if that's accurate), "Yok Var", and "Ebo".