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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not easy but worth the effort,
By A Customer
This review is from: Drive By (Audio CD)
The Necks are a difficult band to categorise. I've found their albums in shops under Jazz, Ambient and others. It's easier not to try to pigeonhole them but just accept them for what they are. Unusual certainly, and possibly unique.This new album follows their theme of a single track running to around an hour in length which is built up and varied as it progresses. The layers are added and interwoven almost imperceptibly, moreso on Drive By than on some earlier works. Drive By is a perfect example of their own peculiar art and a great introduction to a talented group of musicians. It is easy to dismiss this as background music (and it does make excellent background music if you want it to) but listen to it and concentrate on it for the full hour and you will be rewarded.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
one of the best,
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This review is from: Drive By (Audio CD)
I have all The Necks' albums and a few free downloads from their excellent website too and this is one of the two or three albums I turn to most often. I often play it as background music when visitors come - which sounds less than flattering but this is music that can be listened to with half an ear or with full attention and it works either way. Invariably I'm asked with interest what the music is and several people have then gone out and bought the album for themselves. It's a great sound world that brings together as well as the usual piano, bass and drums, marimba [I think], electronics, organ and some sensitive and thoughtful sampling, and the riff and the cross rhythms they work against it as the musical cells shift over the course of an hour or so are fascinating and infectious. Some wonderfully tender moments too as when the piano chords which are as close to a melody as The Necks ever come make their first appearance some quarter of an hour in. "Hanging Gardens" and "Silverwater" are essential albums too but anyone wanting to familiarise themselves with one of the most inventive, original and uncategorizable bands around would do well to start here.
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing improvisational "jazz" album,
By Dan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Drive By (Audio CD)
I was reading Uncut magazine one day and came upon this cd, which they gave 5 stars. I heard the terms improvisation and hour-long-song, which definitely got my attention, so I decided to buy it. I found that these guys are a really impressive band, taking a simple short keyboard line and stretching it out, adding and subtracting parts that makes it similar to a techno pattern but with jazz and psychidelic instruments. It's a unique blend of general jamming/jazz/mood music. It's difficult to explain, but if you are into the Miles Davis Bitches Brew-type music, you should probably give it a try! It's really amazing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
superb,
By moozak - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Drive By (Audio CD)
This is great music.starts slow and builds and slows builds and slows its a journey.
Dark and moody. Improvised jazz but its great. These guys know each other so well they just play off each other. they create this other worldly down tempo almost menacing music. this is the soundtrack for stalking and killing, both scary and creepy.like nothing you have heard before. Dont listen if you are mentally unstable, or like the music of Justin Beaver.This is dangerous music.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good place to start with The Necks,
By PH-50-NC "PH-50-NC" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Drive By (Audio CD)
I've owned eight of the Necks' albums, and this is one of the best. In case you aren't familiar with The Necks, this description from [...]'s François Couture accurately sums up the group's M.O.:
"They usually start playing a very basic melodic and rhythmic figure, and then keep going at it for an hour, gradually introducing microscopic changes and variations. Some critics have compared them to Krautrock groups like Can and Faust. Others find similarities in the works of minimalist composers like LaMonte Young, Tony Conrad, even Philip Glass." Most of the albums are one lengthy track per disc, and all of the music I've heard from the group is consonant enough to be played in boutiques or restaurants. There are no mind-numbing passages of brittle arpeggios, as you find in the music of Philip Glass (for better or for worse). Similarly, there are no noisy avant-garde passsages, vocals, or heavily synthesized sounds as you would expect to find in various flavors of Krautrock. It's not flashy or technically difficult in the way that progressive rock can be. "Drive By" is just a touch funkier than most of the other Neck's albums I'm familiar with (though don't expect any Medeski Martin and Wood-type grooves or soloing here), and the melodic motifs here are catchy-but-minimalist. The overall feeling is major-key ambient groove music, which will allow those familiar with ambient and dance music to more easy engage with the groups' unique brand of minimalist jazz. |
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