[kj] at last...

[jpwhkj at aol.com]

Further thoughts, typed as I listen for the first time:

In Excelsis is much better on CD than the version we'd previously heard.  I like it a lot.

Endgame still doesn't do it for me.  Quite chuggy guitar; Jaz sings a bit, but quite growly vocals; not very catchy; no underlying funky vibe.  I pressed "Next" before it was over, not 'cos it's really awful, but because I want to hear...

Kali Yuga is really powerful!  Excellent singing from Jaz.

Ghosts is just starting... sending a shiver down my spine, partly anticipation from what everyone's said, partly the eerie dub sounds...  It's *very* unusual - totally different from anything they've done in the last 30 years.  Harks back to that first EP.  Great that they've taken a musical risk again - it's been far too long.

(Just thinking that it's great that they have so much material.  On previous "recent" albums, it's felt like they included pretty much everything available in order to fill an album.)

Jaz's vocals on Ghosts are still a bit growly, but he is *singing* which is great.

OK, now for the dub version.  Sounds ....unsurprisingly.... like some of the stuff off the Killing Joke In Dub bootleg.  And sorry Jaz, but I prefer it without vocals!  Some wicked guitar in there.  I could live without some of screechier siren noises, but overall it works really well.  Love the way the guitar blasts in.  This feckin' rocks!

It's over.  Time to press "Play" again.  This reminds me of what it was like to get your hands on new Killing Joke record back in the eighties...

By the way, mine is numbered 789.  What about the rest of youse?

Jamie







-----Original Message-----
From: jpwhkj at aol.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Sent: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:56
Subject: at last...


Nothing on Monday.
 
Nothing on Tuesday.
 
Nothing on Wednesday.
 
Nothing on Thursday.
 
But it arrived today.

First thought: artwork looks better in my hands than on the web.
 
Second thought: remove cassette from stereo and put on IE CD.
 
Here we go...

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