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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Speeding down the industrial super highway Laibach veered off into a slip road and laid down this piece of awesome classical angst. Macbeth the allegory, the lust for power, is where Slovenians dissect the Anglo Scottish fable, then live and breathe within its carcass. They have imbibed its magic through careful filtration connecting the spirit to their souls.
The result is Shakespeare's vision has been wrought asunder into an allegory of a vituperative wrath for power. Animalistic industrial classical strings summon the bared naked teeth of fury. Macbeth and his lady plot to the marrowbone of their souls death destruction and their own will to power. Murder, mud slinging, conspiracy, trampling their way to the top on the dead bodies of friends, children and enemies is the evocation. This music captures this headiness, the dizziness of the ascent.
The allegory is the perfect accompaniment to dinner with Mr and Mrs. Milosevic as they assemble with the fervour of former paupers to the pinnacles of the wizadry of dross.
Likewise Mr and Mrs. Bush chewing the fat with Tony and Cherie in Texas, turn down the volume to non audible levels as it disturbs the peace of Cum By Ya. This album is the X Ray of their li(v)es without the Fat Controllers, Alistair Campbell, composing smoke and mirrors. Mr. Nice stripped of pretence. Naive Kool Britania without bells and whistles, the non stop party of the socially deluded.
Classical strings, kettle drums, bugles sound the death knells whilst Milan gurgles the fury. Shakespeare never did this.
The result is Shakespeare's vision has been wrought asunder into an allegory of a vituperative wrath for power. Animalistic industrial classical strings summon the bared naked teeth of fury. Macbeth and his lady plot to the marrowbone of their souls death destruction and their own will to power. Murder, mud slinging, conspiracy, trampling their way to the top on the dead bodies of friends, children and enemies is the evocation. This music captures this headiness, the dizziness of the ascent.
The allegory is the perfect accompaniment to dinner with Mr and Mrs. Milosevic as they assemble with the fervour of former paupers to the pinnacles of the wizadry of dross.
Likewise Mr and Mrs. Bush chewing the fat with Tony and Cherie in Texas, turn down the volume to non audible levels as it disturbs the peace of Cum By Ya. This album is the X Ray of their li(v)es without the Fat Controllers, Alistair Campbell, composing smoke and mirrors. Mr. Nice stripped of pretence. Naive Kool Britania without bells and whistles, the non stop party of the socially deluded.
Classical strings, kettle drums, bugles sound the death knells whilst Milan gurgles the fury. Shakespeare never did this.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Musically, Laibach have always been years ahead of everyone else. I first listened to this album when I was an angst-ridden teenager. Now I'm an angst-ridden thirty-something and its still as fresh and emotive as ever.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this after hearing an 8 minute excerpt on YouTube. It was probably the best 8 minutes of a 32 minute piece and yes, the best of it is driving industrial neo-classicism as good as it gets. The main theme is certainly very 'catchy' and is developed interestingly. But I won't be playing it often because: -
1) technology has moved on so much since 1990 that this sounds amateurish now - like they needed a symphony orchestra and made do with a Casio keyboard. The Wikipedia entry claims it has been influential on martial music, though I'm not sure how, although I can see how it might have inspired some 'classical' interludes on '90s death metal albums!
Also 2) It seems to be some sort of soundtrack to a theatrical performance (although I'm not clear on the origins of this piece) so it could have worked very well in tandem with a performance of the play but as a stand alone piece it feels like just a part of a larger whole. Unlike Einsturzende Neubauten's "Faust" which was a theatrical accompaniment and I never tire of hearing despite knowing nothing of the original project!
So worth hearing, but better to hear Laibach for the first time via 'Opus Dei', 'Jesus Christ Superstars' or 'WAT'.
1) technology has moved on so much since 1990 that this sounds amateurish now - like they needed a symphony orchestra and made do with a Casio keyboard. The Wikipedia entry claims it has been influential on martial music, though I'm not sure how, although I can see how it might have inspired some 'classical' interludes on '90s death metal albums!
Also 2) It seems to be some sort of soundtrack to a theatrical performance (although I'm not clear on the origins of this piece) so it could have worked very well in tandem with a performance of the play but as a stand alone piece it feels like just a part of a larger whole. Unlike Einsturzende Neubauten's "Faust" which was a theatrical accompaniment and I never tire of hearing despite knowing nothing of the original project!
So worth hearing, but better to hear Laibach for the first time via 'Opus Dei', 'Jesus Christ Superstars' or 'WAT'.
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