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Track Listings
| 1. Crestfallen / Sleep In Sanity |
| 2. Kingdom |
| 3. They Die |
| 4. Sunset of Age |
| 5. Everwake |
| 6. We The Gods |
| 7. I Made A Promise |
| 8. Alone |
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Falling Deeper is the new, fully orchestral album from Anathema. It continues where the acclaimed 2008 album Hindsight left off and features brand new arrangements of songs and haunting melodies from the band’s earliest days as pioneers of heavy music.
This is an album which will excite old and new Anathema fans equally. A fresh musical and lyrical approach has transformed songs such as "Crestfallen", "Kingdom", "Sunset Of Age" and "Everwake", which features the incredible voice of Anneke van Giersbergen.
The record has been produced by Daniel Cavanagh and was recorded and mixed by Andrea Wright at the legendary Parr St Studios, Liverpool (where the likes of Elbow, Coldplay and Echo and the Bunnymen have also recorded albums). The orchestral arrangements are from Dave Stewart who worked so successfully with Anathema on We’re Here Because We’re Here.
This is an album which will excite old and new Anathema fans equally. A fresh musical and lyrical approach has transformed songs such as "Crestfallen", "Kingdom", "Sunset Of Age" and "Everwake", which features the incredible voice of Anneke van Giersbergen.
The record has been produced by Daniel Cavanagh and was recorded and mixed by Andrea Wright at the legendary Parr St Studios, Liverpool (where the likes of Elbow, Coldplay and Echo and the Bunnymen have also recorded albums). The orchestral arrangements are from Dave Stewart who worked so successfully with Anathema on We’re Here Because We’re Here.
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'Semi-accoustic' 2011 album from groundbreaking meatl outfit
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Revisiting your past is often fraught with danger but Anathema have put a sufficiently melodic and sharper spin on these old tracks to render them as new and important works in their own right. Sure they share the melodic structures of the past but have done away with the doom laden vocals and shortened the tracks to make them more immediate and interesting. It may not impress old fans of the band I suppose but they have clearly "layed out their stall" as the football pundits might say, and this is the way they are progressing. Having only recently "discovered" the band I have to say I approve.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This album goes back to some of the earliest recorded material from the band, back when they were a growly doom metal band, and updates them to the bands newer prog rock/metal aesthetic. It is certainly well enough done, and it shouldn't be compared to a quick "cash in" remix album as it is very well done and all completely in keeping with the last couple of releases from the band, so if you liked [[We're Here Because We're Here, A Natural Disaster or Hindsight, this should fit quite well - personally my preferences are the alternative 4, Judgement and A Fine Day To Exit era, but Anathema are still one of the best bands around even in their more laid back modes (relatively speaking) that they have moved to in recent years.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Crystalline temples disintegrate around me, shards refracting light, dazzling me, crashing to the ground and deafening me, but when the last piece lands it rings and then the silence reveals an opening out to a landscape of golden sand, ice capped mountains to the left and right, a black river through its centre which stretches an indeterminable distance to be devoured at the foot of multiple suns, dying on the horizon, some burning white hot, some small and red, each is an eye casting spears from years and years before, which alter over time; no longer aimed at the head, now aimed directly at the heart.
Pretence aside the `spear' is Falling Deeper, Anathema's new album which is in fact, re-workings of material from `Pentecost III', `Crestfallen' and `Serenades'. This wouldn't be the first time Anathema has re-treated their material (Hindsight being acoustic or stripped down versions of their `best of' tracks), and some people I've spoken to weren't even sure if this was just another compilation, like `Resonance' (part I or Part II), but re-packaged. It'd be a tragic case of boy-who-cried-wolf-syndrome if people were to let these assumptions based on the previous `not exactly a new album' offerings hinder their path toward experiencing the absolute revelations contained within this high-brow masterpiece.
Music is music, and whether a melody is screamed out through a distorted electric guitar, or faintly fluttered on a flute completely depends on what the artists elicit intentions are. For Anathema, this retrospective gaze into the very soul of the material still hailed today as some of the heaviest, most influential (and most depressing) doom metal ever written proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt, arrangement is an extremely inspired tool for a conjurer of sound to learn to wield. So delicate and so poignant, yet epic, flowing, expressive and withstanding from straight rock conventions of time frames, the almost suicidal motifs of our angst ridden childhood's are explored, exploded and presented as a thing of pure hope and utter beauty.
Vinnie's singing on this is also angelic. He sings almost pure sine waves now. The requirement to hit notes extremely well and in a near perfect tuning is no doubt a pressure of the music itself, where now there are no harmonic overtones, distortion or just general clatter to disguise any imperfections in a mix of finely tuned/intoned strings, brass and woodwind. His voice, combined with the epic feed-backing guitar and the string quartet is a sonic match made in the halls of the Ęsir.
I'm incredibly excited to hear what Anathema plan to do next. Last year's `We're Here Because We're Here' was a wonderful album, but if they could somehow amalgamate the orchestral structures they have so cleverly achieved on `Falling Deeper' with the rugged heaviness of tracks like `A Simple Mistake', they could achievably re-write the musical history books again, for like, the third or fourth time? Who's counting anymore? Anathema are just wonderful and the world is twofold a better place with their music a constant.
Pretence aside the `spear' is Falling Deeper, Anathema's new album which is in fact, re-workings of material from `Pentecost III', `Crestfallen' and `Serenades'. This wouldn't be the first time Anathema has re-treated their material (Hindsight being acoustic or stripped down versions of their `best of' tracks), and some people I've spoken to weren't even sure if this was just another compilation, like `Resonance' (part I or Part II), but re-packaged. It'd be a tragic case of boy-who-cried-wolf-syndrome if people were to let these assumptions based on the previous `not exactly a new album' offerings hinder their path toward experiencing the absolute revelations contained within this high-brow masterpiece.
Music is music, and whether a melody is screamed out through a distorted electric guitar, or faintly fluttered on a flute completely depends on what the artists elicit intentions are. For Anathema, this retrospective gaze into the very soul of the material still hailed today as some of the heaviest, most influential (and most depressing) doom metal ever written proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt, arrangement is an extremely inspired tool for a conjurer of sound to learn to wield. So delicate and so poignant, yet epic, flowing, expressive and withstanding from straight rock conventions of time frames, the almost suicidal motifs of our angst ridden childhood's are explored, exploded and presented as a thing of pure hope and utter beauty.
Vinnie's singing on this is also angelic. He sings almost pure sine waves now. The requirement to hit notes extremely well and in a near perfect tuning is no doubt a pressure of the music itself, where now there are no harmonic overtones, distortion or just general clatter to disguise any imperfections in a mix of finely tuned/intoned strings, brass and woodwind. His voice, combined with the epic feed-backing guitar and the string quartet is a sonic match made in the halls of the Ęsir.
I'm incredibly excited to hear what Anathema plan to do next. Last year's `We're Here Because We're Here' was a wonderful album, but if they could somehow amalgamate the orchestral structures they have so cleverly achieved on `Falling Deeper' with the rugged heaviness of tracks like `A Simple Mistake', they could achievably re-write the musical history books again, for like, the third or fourth time? Who's counting anymore? Anathema are just wonderful and the world is twofold a better place with their music a constant.
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A great addition to their catalogue
Loved the record. Didn't own any of their really early stuff so it was all new to me. Thought it was fantastic and am really looking forward to their new album coming out in April.
Published 3 months ago by Mr. C. J. Starkey
Superb re-workings of older songs
This CD is a wonderful companion to We're Here Because We're Here - one of the great rock albums of the new Millennium... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Yellow Dog
Amazing!
This is a really good album!
The songs are beautifully recreated by the orchestra, creating a unique side to Anathema. Read more
The songs are beautifully recreated by the orchestra, creating a unique side to Anathema. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Adam Canfield
falling deeper
Wow that was my first impression when í heard falling deeper for the first time.the old songs are better now,cooler,more depth so it sounds more powerful than the old... Read more
Published 8 months ago by dutch man
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