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

[GREG SLAWSON]

Same thing in Boston, even at the original punk rock record store (now a local chain). They told me they wouldn't even special order it. 
 


Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:20:44 -0500
From: jasmead111 at verizon.net
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] So new album..where does it stand


well here's a good one. yesterday i went to the local CD store to order a copy of "Absolute Dissent" and the cashier said it's not in their database. residing in Syracuse NY USA as i do, i realize that the record's an import
and hasn't been released Stateside yet, but you'd think they'd have something on the computer about it's availability. hmmmm, confusing, yes?

Sep 17, 2010 02:47:11 AM, gathering at misera.net wrote:


>For all of us who've been listening to Killing Joke for such a long time, Absolute 

>Dissent

>is like being fired back and forth through time. I think I can hear bits of almost 

>every

>previous album on this one - in the best possible way.

> 

>Now I've lived with it for a week I think its the best thing they've 

>done since Night Time.

>And considering how our expectations have taken such a battering over recent 

>years, how

>most of us were maybe only hoping for something slightly better than Hosannas, 

>and how

> the return of Big Paul could have proved disastrous considering how long he's 

>been away, 

>there is an argument for saying this is the best Killing Joke album ever.

>

>For once, they got the songs AND the production right! Most everything else gels 

>too - the

> running order, the range of styles, the mixture of light (ish) and heavy. The 

>only turd in

>the swimming pool for me is Endgame, which I skip. And In Excelsis is still a 

>bit wishy-washy,

>but its growing on me.  Singularity is top of the list at the moment, followed 

>by Cull,

> title track, Fresh Fever, ESS - which I thought I might get tired of but absolutely 

>haven't - and This World Hell.

>A whole album of songs like this would have been grim, but in the context of 

>the LP I love it. This Is

> Madness for 2010.

>

>The Raven King is OK but its all a bit Coldplay/wave your lighters in the air 

>innit?

>

>But the song that has really grown on me is Depthcharge. On first listen I dismissed 

>it, on

>2nd and 3rd listens I started loving that twisted loping reggae beat and I have 

>kept 

> returning to it like an itch I can't scratch. Then it hit me - Big Paul. 

>I think this is the

>song where he comes into his own. There is a roll around the 1.45 mark that just 

>builds

>and builds and explodes into the chorus, followed not long after by some delicious 

>little

> twists from Geordie. But Paul is just on fire on this song. And It has a Dominator/Sun 

>Goes Down

>vibe that keeps dragging me in...

>

>Anyway, enjoying reading everyone's comments. I'd agree with Geordie 

>sounding a bit

> marginalised on this one but it is joyous to hear Jaz singing again.

>

>The lads went and did it!

>

>N

>

>

>

>

> 

On 10 September 2010 09:48, Steve Hackett <thepunisher at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

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stylistically?
 
Early days but for those who've downloaded it, what 

> do you reckon it harks back to??

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