Antimonument

A cool and strange Jazz-Rock album full of sounds, experimentations and radio-active vibrations. Excellent drummer (Deterior) and strong heavy guitar. But where are the lyrics? Rock for Rock?

Yours (thanks to bombastik for the sharing)

Glandul

We start at the end of previous beginning, with a new one and a blatant confession that all things are subjective and at worst delusional. Lovely sounds to start, that calm into a simple flow of noise. The track pulls itself together, rather like me of a morning! Delusion or not, you still have to get on with things. That might be getting the kids to school on time, that might be fighting for your very existence. Nice sense of the dramatic, either way and a well-constructed track. Never again, reminds me of a very old piece of music by a band called Discharge, thirty years on and we are still fighting war all the same. Will it ever change?

Eyes of the Blind, suggests not. We seem to live still in a kingdom of the blind, where the proverbial one-eyed man, that man with a singularity in perception, is the unfortunate king. But some good sounds on the way, if you like inventive, gutsy rock music. It speaks volumes to me, might just be a good track to others. Maybe I at least have one eye left and that gives me a chance? However, the screams from hell don't encourage a sense of hope. Then straight into The Goddess, albeit so integral.

The somewhat sombre mood makes me think that the Goddess could represent Mother Earth in all her injured and damaged glory. I've said before about this bent of spiritualism to rid the earths aura of all things spiritual, when I believe that some are beneficial to Gaia's own sense of spirituality and the tentative balance of equilibrium in the planets own aura. Nice, poignant track, constructed well.

Part 1 of A Thin, Nameless Noise is about the only way my 'pitch' of the day could be encapsulated. In a sense it's everything but, though I cannot envisage any other way of putting it. Is it that 1% I have talked of before, the nameless, almost soundless noise. How to describe such a concept so cleverly, makes this a success in my ears and regardless of the 'noise' in my head, life has to go on somehow.

Antimonument, the title track has a poignancy of string sounds and a gentle, sonorous sound to it. Mild rock set up with a powerful impact and possibilities of meaning. It's about pulling those statues down, dethroning of a dictator perhaps, attacking the monuments that can represent a host of meanings for a nation state. Spire has quite a disturbing atmosphere, reminds me of another album of the same name. Top track, with some cool instrumentalism.

Part 2 of a Thin, Nameless Noise is a fitting second part, pretty much of the same essence as Part 1, a good continuance. Sunset and Destroyer, finishes it all off, in terms of a track and possibly in terms of a statement of a situation that can only be surmised upon. Perhaps we are harking back to primeval times when the sunset was seen as a destructive phase of the passing day. Gods fighting in the firmament. Good and evil. Either way, and whatever the underlying import, a damn good instrumental rock track. Nice album. Thanks for sharing.