Second only to THRAAK for be in the post-70s KC catelogue. Athough still experimental, I find it much more cohesive and less meandering that other releases.
Second only to THRAAK for be in the post-70s KC catelogue. Athough still experimental, I find it much more cohesive and less meandering that other releases.
"The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best..." - Henry David Thoreau
Loud, boring, cliched. Musically ingratiated with current trends.
Great album, always in my ipod.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
This is definitely one of their greatest albums--for me it shares the top spot equally with Larks', Red and Discipline. And yet I don't listen to the studio disc as much as I do with those others. When I want a Double Duo fix I almost always reach for something live from this year (most often Milan, Kingston or New Haven). I think it's partly because they'd also finally brought out the full potential of the TCoL material at the time, so those shows feel like more of a complete package.
I'm pretty sure that's only true of the soundscape in TPtB4.
Yeah, that took a little getting used to when the Happy EP came out (but it didn't take too long to start feeling normal). KC has always had a jokey side after all, and this one's really no more so than "Elephant Talk" or "The Great Deceiver" or "Cat Food."
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