[kj] So new album..where does it stand

[Leigh Newton]

Honour the Fire is definitely a contender for a bit of filler. Not a terrible 
song though. Also there's Depthcharge, which is good but reminds me of Another 
Bloody Election (a song I'd rather not be reminded of). 


The album, as a whole, is really great. It sounds cohesive and deliberate, in 
direct contrast to Hosannas which sounds exactly like a bunch of jam sessions 
that got pieced together by some poor bastard of an engineer. The Great Cull, 
whilst being one of the heavier tracks on the album, wouldn't sound out of place 
at all on Night Time (if you use your imagination a little bit). It's got that 
Tabazan/Europe vibe to it. A few of the songs that we heard seperately and 
seemed a little lacklustre make a lot more sense in the context of the album, 
Fresh Fever being the best example of that. Here Comes the Singularity is 
another awesome number and probably the closest the album comes to the "classic 
sound". 


What's weird to me is that while several songs on the album do sound a little 
like classic KJ, none of them really sound like classic Youth-era KJ. Weird.
 
Leigh

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From: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Fri, September 10, 2010 4:18:18 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] So new album..where does it stand


I like "Depthcharge," but it did seem a bit reminiscent of, say, "Asteroid." Not 
a bad thing, but no ground broken.
Here's a bold thread. Least favorite song on new album?

I'll say "Honour the Fire."
 
Yours?
 
Alex in NYC


-----Original Message----- 

>From: GREG SLAWSON 

>Sent: Sep 10, 2010 3:07 PM 

>To: gathering 

>Subject: Re: [kj] So new album..where does it stand 

>

>My take on the album (listened to on crappy computer):

>Great, except for--

>This World Hell & Depthcharge: kind of dull (mostly tuneless metal sludge)

>Ghost of L.G.--quite dull (not as good as "Another Cult Goes Down" in terms of 

>Joke-reggae)

> 

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