Most Helpful Customer Reviews
|
|
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I hate giving five stars, but..., 3 Aug 2004
Codename: Dustsucker deserves every last star. Put together over 5 years by Graham Sutton and a school of musicians and friends as they passed through his studio in London, C:DS demonstrates meticulous attention to sonic detail and a passion for overwhelming surges of noise. It's clearly constructed by the same person responsible for driving the band who made Hex, but ten years (and a drum n bass career as Boymerang) have passed since that landmark album, and where Hex was often stark and empty, C:DS is lush and warm (but still somehow stark and empty). Obviously less the work of a coherant 'band' than the previous material by Bark Psychosis, it is both a continuation and an alteration of what the band were doing between 1988 and 1994. As for what it sounds like... Well, imagine Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden filtered through the last decade of dance music and avant-guitar noise and then transposed onto the crepuscular metropolis that is night-time London and you'll be getting there. One of the most remarkable albums, not just of this year, but of any year.
|
|
|
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Did you notice that quiet act of genius?, 19 Dec 2005
This is utterly sublime. For those who remember "Hex", you'll scarely notice the seams - eight years might've passed, but the same sentiment lives on. this is cool music for cool blokes. and for those who weren't onboard in 1996, small matter. this is an album of late night contemplation, of abstract shapes and small time melancholy, of slow-burning cigarettes and long draughts of brandy that, despite it all, confounds pretension and arty-sounding bombast. The ceaseless evasion of the histrionic, the utter determination to keep things as understated as possible? it has to be Sutton and his imperious album. there's not a note out of place, a moment not well-framed. i exhort you to buy.
|
|
|
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good album, shame about the name!, 7 Jan 2005
By A Customer
Unfamiliar with Bark Psychosis' apparently seminal debut 'Hex' I can provide a semi-objective review of this album. Lush instrumentation, enhanced with electronics, with hushed male and female (alternating) vocals - often distant in the mix - make for a rich listening experience that is brooding and languid in turns. It bears similarity to some of Mogwai's recent output (Rock Action in particular), but also the Cocteau Twins, Tortoise, The Notwist, Lali Puna and later Talk Talk. Despite the organic, 'live' feel of the music, its clearly carefully arranged, and the effect is largely tense and urban - akin to recent Massive Attack - rather than pastoral. Like Massive's 100th Window, it can be a bit po-faced at times, but this is an up-close-and-personal experience, strictly one for the headphones. Highlights include the textbook post-rock opener 'From What is Said to When Its Read', to its follow-up, the sparkling and seemingly mis-titled 'The Black Meat', which bursts into trumpet solos and shimmering atmospherics, and later, '400 Winters' is a swirling gem of Liz Frasier-esque vocals. There are a few dud tracks along the way but all in all -not bad at all!!
|
|
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews
|
![Y [Remastered and Expanded]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mXs7M7kGL._SL500_SS90_.jpg)
With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is). 
Amazon Home