[kj] Hosannas my favorite KJ album

[Javier Garcia]

A friend of mine brought me the album from the US and gave it to me last monday, to be honest i must say that my first impression wasn't very optimistic, i was even dissapointed because to me it wasn't as surprising as any album before this. It has a lot of KJ 2003 vibe at some moments (which isn't that bad to me as i love most of the tracks on KJ 2003) and some Pandemoium and a little bit of Democracy in others. The mix, IMHO, sucked, Geordie's gutar is pretty good, really, but if the mix was better it would turn it fantastic. After two or three times it started to grow on me, now i like the album, and tracks as the Majestic, Judas Goat, and the one to seem to be my fave until now: Walking With Gods (the keyboards, the guitar, the rythm and even the claps at the background make just a mighty combo).
Now it's funny, while KJ 2003 caught me since the beggining now there are songs that i use to skip like the three last tracks (Dark Forces, The House that Pain Built and Inferno -actually never liked this last one-). But i don't think this will happen with 'Hosannas
' i think it's more equilibrated and as a whole album is better, even when KJ 2003 may include awesome songs. 
To be more clear i could say that to me 'KJ2003' is more contrasted: it has got some 5 stars songs but also some 1 star songs. 'Hosannas
' has got a better average with fewer 5 stars tracks than 'KJ2003' but the rest of the songs could receive 3 stars. Therefore to me it's a very good album, but not my favourite.

What is lamer than lame is that they aren't playing the mighty tracks of the album live. Makes me think if it would worth the plane ticket to catch'em live in the US tour (it will be a US tour right?)

Mis dos pesos

Javier
Mexico City


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: wscheip1 at aol.com
> To: gathering at misera.net
> Subject: Re: [kj] Hosannas my favorite KJ album
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:42:41 -0400
> 
> 
> I have to agree myself, I was relieved that Geordie decided to 
> break up his metal riffs with some harmony. The choruses for 
> Hosannas, Gratitude, Majestic, all have that quality that was 
> missing on the last album.
> 
> From,
> Will
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: S. Sorensen <kingofpotassium at yahoo.com>
> To: gathering at misera.net
> Sent: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:57:31 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [kj] Hosannas my favorite KJ album
> 
> 
> Well, I know it's probably uncool to be so positive,
> but Hosannas is my favorite KJ album to date. I've
> listened to it a lot and it is just an amazing piece
> of work. I'm not crazy about the mix, but it reminds
> in a lot of ways of Democracy. There's a very special
> magic to this album that I can't put into words.
> 
> As far as the live stuff- I 've never thought of them
> as a studio band, not a stage band. I saw them all the
> way back in 1982 and I wasn't blown away. I was a bit
> miffed that they cancelled at the last minute the last
> time I went to see them in 2003. That being said I
> treasure my Manchester 2003 boot and I enjoyed the
> fabchannel show.
> 
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