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| 1. The Boys I |
| 2. He Led Them Into The World |
| 3. Headlights |
| 4. The Boys II |
| 5. The Sleep of Champions |
| 6. Fife and Drum |
| 7. The Boys III |
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"He Led Them Into The World" is pellucid and meditative in all the right ways: its piano figures modulating and echoing like a mantra. The feeling is of musical parts moving snugly together and apart, of sailing out towards the ocean's rim as the sun sets - the piano supplying the glimmering light and the movement of the waves. In (only) 10 minutes it manages to communicate something of the endlessness of the sea. Whether this has any bearing on the film is unknown, but the album cover states that "this soundtrack album ... consists of more than just the music that appeared in the film. It is an album in its own right, drawing from all works that The Necks composed for the project." Which gives licence for interpretation unmoored from the exigencies of the film's narrative. "Headlights" begins like a drowsy wasp circling round and round your head - there's that same hint of whirring menace. As the minutes pass the realization gradually dawns that this is it - an imperfect circle is being traversed endlessly. Then somehow the circle becomes a line - as it does if you walk its circumference for long enough. There's something magical about this transformation, this subtle but absolute shapeshifting.
When pianist Chris Abrahams conjures a motif at the very beginning of a Necks track, it's a strange feeling to realise that there's every possibility he will pick and patch and stroke and prod at this pattern for the duration of the piece, however long that takes. Fight, flight or surrender are the most obvious responses; the third of them is certainly the most fruitful for the listener. For any Necks fans worried about the brevity of these tracks and who fear imminent stylistic change, please breathe easier - this album was in fact recorded between 1997 and 1998. --Colin Buttimer
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Still tough to categorise, there seems some genetic link to middle-period Soft Machine, but The Necks, like Soft Machine, are among those precious few who pretty well own their own category. There is a consistently and seemingly simple surface to these peices that, for the right kind of listener, lures the attention again and again to an abundance of inner detail and the opportunity to shift your attention left, right, up, down, front or back in any sequence or combination. In some sense, The Necks' music is almost subversive. Seemingly bent on repetition, your perception of that repetition continues to shift in emphasis, shift in timing. It's a seductive outcome that belies any first, second or third impression you take away. Alluring enough to make each listening yet another experience that eventually gives up trying to settle on a single choice within a disarmingly diverse set of ideas.
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