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Reviewer Rating: 10/10
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Maudlin Of The Well, which became Kayo Dot, are a band that takes "experimental music" to a level where they could do anything and it wouldn't get questioned as being "too experimental".
But even that's possible as that what this album is, songs that Toby didn't see as being suited on a Kayo Dot album, which brings the question, how can a band that makes songs with "anything goes" rules make songs that even they believe to be over the top?
When listening to this album, you can see how, these songs make the other works of Toby sound almost normal in comparison. These songs where also first written in Toby's head with him working out how to make them sound how they do after he have "written" them
The album opens with the very scary "Kandu Vs Corky", which most people who have heard this album consider to be the highlight of album, featuring all the goodness that we have come to expect from Toby but with a seemingly dark evil sound.
the next song, the title song, is the shortest song on the album, but is still a lengthy one at 9 minutes. it is a nice melodic sounding song to begin with but than becomes more experimental and recreates the scary type theme the first song gave us.
"Brown Light Upon Us" is the longest song on the album and the one that is labeled as being "too much ambient, not enough song". The whole idea behind this song as Toby has explained is to make it sound like it was being played in another room, giving it that ambient sound. When taking that into consideration, it has achieved what it was written to do, make you feel like you could hear a song playing in a different room
The final song on this album, "Eptaceros", was written with the intent that Kayo Dot's trumpeter was experimenting with what they could do with a trumpet, hence giving the song it's title, which means "seven-horn". He also described it as "one of the most beautiful and bleak pieces I have ever written"
I personally think you should give this album a listen if you enjoy any of Toby's other works I think this is some of his best songwriting and has something to please fans of his other works, I'd also suggest this to people looking for music that does the unthinkable and makes it sound natural.
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