Thinking Plague

Thinking Plague are looking for help funding their next album via kickstarter

Can't wait for the new album, the lyrical content sounds awesome as well as the instrumental portion. the themes in the lyrics are much needed for today's world in which corruption rules. Keep on avanting it thinking plague and thanks for the interview dean!

Logan wrote:  Had it been more acoustic, I expect that I would have preferred the album

Cool interview! I can't say I like the new album, though. At least yet.

infocat wrote: In Extremis neo-progish??  Umm....

Edited by HolyMoly - March 02 2012 at 22:20

A great interview!... AND A GREAT ALBUM THAT LAST ONE!! - "Decline And Fall" rules big time, my no. 1 album of 2012 so far.

based on memory as it has been a long time since I last listened to it:  I think part of what it may have been was that in Extremis was quite Symphonic Prog oriented whereas I was more chamber music oriented, but I can think of many exceptions to that if it were a rule which it isn't, and  the extensive mellotron and the way synths were used put me off.  It has this too polished, produced almost Neo Proggish feel for me during parts of the album. I did like the longest piece, "Les Etudes d'Organism" considerably.  Had it been more acoustic, I expect that I would have preferred the album (and that statement is coming from a great lover of electronic music).

 I had a few disappointments with albums back then that I just didn't feel lived up to the very high praise I was hearing; whereas, I got A History of Madness before hearing any praise based on, as I recall, a sample that I came across.  It's not really that they didn't live up to the praise, as that is to a large extent subjective, but that my expectations were off to which, of course, I can only blame myself for being careless and being overly influenced by my expectations.

  It's been a  long time since I've been disappointed with an album I got, even though a lot of them I haven't even sampled before but get based on descriptions alone.  I'm much better at getting albums I'll love unheard than I once was since I'm more knowledgeable about music and what to expect now, and I don't follow the praise nearly so much, but rather pay attention to and look for how the sound is described and which other music/ bands/ composers it relates to.

Anyway, though I like Thinking Plague considerably, and was very impressed with A History of Madness, it never became a favourite RIO-related band of mine.

Thanks for posting that.  I had the pleasure of interviewing Mike Johnson myself, back in '98 (after being blown away by In Extremis).  It wasn't even a formal Q&A type interview, I just spoke with him on the phone for an hour and wrote an article based on it.  It was a very interesting and pleasant conversation; Mike was very candid and had a lot of thoughtful things to say.

So, I note: september, the R.I.O. festival... Too bad they don't have any other date: I would be glad to see them in Paris (le Triton, maybe?) or anywhere else.
I wouldn't mind going to Marseille if they were programmed to the MIMI festival in July, but that looks rather improbable.

Excellent!!!!!