Legendary Pink Dots "Nemesis Online" Soleilmoon Recordings SOL75CD 1998 (58:24)
Dissonance (5:46)
Jasz (1:26)
As Long as it's Purple and Green (6:05)
Ghost (3:47)
Under Your Wheels (4:09)
A Sunset for a Swan (5:44)
Is it Something I Said? (5:11)
Zoo (5:33)
Fate's Faithful Punchline (5:43)
Cheating the Shadow (3:30)
Abracadabra (5:55)
Slaapliedje (5:33)
The Legendary Pink Dots are the Silverman (keyboards,
loops, devices), Niels van Hoornblower (horns, flutes), Ryan Moore
(bass, drums, guitar, loops, loops on tracks 1 and 11), The Prophet
Qa'Spel (keyboards, voice, loops, destroyed lyre), Edwin Von Trippenhof
(guitar and guitar mutations) and Frank Verschuuren (sound devices).
Overall impression: excellent! LPD are back with a wonderful new album,
just one short year since "Hallway
of the Gods". I was a bit afraid that the level of psychedelic splendor and beauty achieved
by the previous album would be difficult for the Dots to match or surpass,
but "Nemesis.." has indeed surpassed "Hallway..", and
is yet another great album to add to the huge 14 year backcatalog of great
albums. This album is a nice assortment of the various LPD styles which,
generalizing, could be split up into two categories: drum propelled
"rock" songs such as "As Long as it's Purple and Green",
"Is it Something I Said?", "Zoo" and "Abracadabra"
and quieter, more subdued and achingily beautiful melodic songs such as
"Ghost", "A Sunset for a Swan", "Fate's Faithful
Punchline", "Cheating the Shadow" and the lullabye "Slaapliedje".
Everyone and everything sounds perfect ... Edward's poetic tales and vocal
delivery, Niels horn melodies and Edwin's guitar (which really shine on
"Fate's Faithful Punchline", my favorite track), the Silverman's
loops and melodies, Ryan's loops, bass and funky drumming ... everyone
plays their part perfectly. The result is sublime bliss: jazzy, psychedelic,
folky, experimental at times ... the balance between playful, sad and manic
moods is just right and there are no bad tracks (although "Is it Something
I Said" does get a bit too noisy and hectic). The artwork by Elke
Peucker and Robert Osten is equally beautiful. One of my favorites
of 1998. Mp3 snippets of all of the tracks are available at Brainwashed.
Sing while you may ...
Legendary Pink Dots at Brainwashed
Where did I get this cd? - mail order via Rioux's Records. Email Jason.