From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Sun, Jul 11th 1999, 05:46
From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Sun, Jul 11th 1999, 05:46
>Use one of your CDNow Coupons (and check out some RA snippets) and pick >this up asap if you even think you like drony ambience - its quite yummy! > I cant wait until the new album "Avec Laudenum" comes out! Till then Im >filling up on their backcatalog! It's already out... at least I saw the (expensive yet extremely tempting) double lp version in my local shop the other day and have seen it on a bunch of pre-order lists. It's a Sub Rosa release... sort of an import, sort of not (prices generally aren't more than $15-16 because Caroline picked them up). I've heard most of the SotL records... they're all almost exactly the same. Yet they're all stunning. They always catch me completely off guard because I tend to subconsciously dismiss them as just another drone rock band... no one should make that mistake - the ballasted orchestra is literally one of the best 3 or 4 ambient records I've ever heard... as good as oval's "do while" on diskont 94 or mika vainio's "viher" on Onko or Lull's Cold Summer. but not like any of them. If you can find it (i dug up 2 sealed copies in a tower records outlet bargain bin for $2 each last summer, so it might be possible) the long out of print collaboration with labradford called the Kahanek Incident (12" only, on Trance Syndicate) is superfantastic and a little different. Not by much though. And the ballasted orchestra is still, for whatever reason, my favorite. speaking of labradford, their new record is even worse than the last (which I was not very fond of). avoid. but you might like "a stable reference" if you like SotL - same feel sorta but more song structure. a real masterpiece. --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto