Legendary Pink Dots "The Pre-Millennial Single" Soleilmoon Recordings SOL 74CD 1998 (33:26)
Hellsville '98 (6:08)
Needles (Version Sirius) (10:05)
Andromeda Suite '98 (11:08)
Abracadabra zzzz (6:05)
The Legendary Pink Dots were Ryan Moore, The Prophet Qa'spel, Silverman, Niels van Hoornblower, Edwin von Trippenhof, Frank Verschuuren and Halekka Malaizhista.
Overall impression: excellent! LPD are back, only a year after their phenomenal album, "Hallway of the Gods". This single is a precursor to the new album, "Nemesis Online" and is essentially a gift to the fans. Hellsville and Andromeda are updated re-workings of what are arguably 2 of the finest songs from the Dots *huge* back catalog. Needles is also an updated song, this one originally being a solo Edward Ka-spel track. These new versions are very nicely done, reminiscent of how LPD played them on recent tours. Hellsville is chock full of great horn blasts, miscellaneous noises and Edward's crescendos of yelling and laughing. Needles features Edward as a father guilt-tripping his son into following his parents in leaving home behind for a new and better place, "Sirius" as a building wall of drums/bass/keyboards propels the song. Andromeda is my favorite of the 4, a beautiful song that has several different parts (like many of those multi-part 70's Pink Floyd songs): a 3 minute or so mellow lyrical part, a long ambient bridge which then gives way to the horn/keyboard blasting chorus section. Awesome! The last track is a different version of Abracadabra from the new album, "Nemesis Online". It's a fairly noisy, drum propelled instrumental (Edward is repeating a phrase throughout, but it's so densely effected that I can't tell what he's saying) that culminates in a wonderful mess of sampled noises/sounds. Very cool artwork: a b/w photo of a giant (God?) that has people imprisoned within him on the front, and a b/w photo of what appears to be assorted medieval torture devices on the back. All together, another brilliant release from the Dots, one that will most surely be appreciated by any Dots fan ... especially those who witnessed the '97 Hallway tour. Mp3 sound clips are available at the Brainwashed site below. Sing while you may ...
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Pre-Millennial Single
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