This sounds pretty cool and this is coming from someone who really had no expectation of it.
-MK
I’m gonna hijack this post, because there probably needs more said about this. First double-author post? I think so!
So, Devin, you mean to tell me that BOTH Ghost and Deconstruction are going to be double albums, with 2011 having at least 4 albums worth of new Devin Townsend Project? Hell yes.
Ghost, as you can tell from the above clip, is going to be amazing. In an era where everything is done via digital plugins, and artist going outside and recording frogs and slide guitar in tunnels guerrilla-style is a rarity. It’s a nice change of pace, sure to contribute to the album’s overall aesthetic. This is going to blow Ki out of the water. We’ve yet to hear anything from Deconstruction, but I’m sure after writing all this ambient music, the next punch will definitely leave a mark. 2011, here we come!
- JR
The vocals on Frontier range, but not too heavily. You have a Converge carbon-copy of a sort of mid to high-register that I’m not particularly that big of a fan of and then you have an emo/indie clean vocal style that accompanies the music at the time well without being too whiny.
3.5/5
I am back, most likely temporarily from my absence. I’ve been having computer troubles and haven’t found the source, so here’s my review of the new BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. Monoliths & Dimensions is the new release by the widely known Sunn O))). This new album both takes the band further into obscurity, and farther from it. In other words it evens out. It’s a completely fresh new release from a band known for only making heavy atmospheric music. It adds beautiful orchestral sections, and sections that are just bizarre and noisy and reminiscent of John Zorn’s dark ambient orchestral albums. The last track “Alice” is hardly a Sunn O))) track at all, and is very well made. If you didn’t like them before, listen to this. If you liked them before, listen to this, obviously.
Throw whatever you expected from Strapping Young Lad mastermind Devin Townsend out the window for this record. It’s different right from the beginning. Ki is the first of four albums that Townsend plans on releasing under the Devin Townsend Project. This album certainly does feel like it’s a precursor to a much larger concept, setting up a brilliant stage for things to come.
