[kj] MMXII first listen

[pssyche23]

I'm only getting to hear bits & pieces on the laptop at the moment but I'm
just grateful it's become a reality ... thinking back to the dark days from
1996 to 2003, who would have ever thought that another 4 studio albums would
have tickled our ageing lugholes, with the latter two being with the
original KJ line-up. Raven RIP. I spent Sunday in solitary as my car's
exhaust pipe broke & I was left in West London so on went Outside The Gate,
The Courtauld Talks & then Extremities whilst also the 2 nights at The Forum
in 2008  - some recent complaints about KJ set-lists on here but you forget
how special those gigs were - rejoice, rejoice.  

 

Okay, maybe Pole Shift goes on a bit but worth it for the machine-gun drum
roll at 06:36 ... if I do have a criticism it's still too much throaty
growling in parts but  it's all outweighed by the positives.  Regards,
Antoni

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Darren Peace
Sent: 28 March 2012 13:41
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] MMXII first listen

 

The more I listen, the more I'm inclined to agree. This album is
magnificent.


Darren

Hungerford, UK


On 28 Mar 2012, at 12:38, Bob Barathy <bbarathy at btinternet.com> wrote:

Really!? I think this album could well be their best since Extremities

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I think it's fair to say that MMXII is not as good as Absolute Dissent. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

 

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From: gregslawson at msn.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:43:20 -0400
Subject: Re: [kj] MMXII first listen

You're right about similarites of some new songs to older ones (like the
Glitch part taken from Intravenous/Majestic) but you'll see w/many bands
that have been around for a while that they repeat
themselves. Even amazing songwriters like the guys from Husker Du (check 'em
out if you weren't around the US underground scene in the mid 80s) or the
Minutemen were repeating themselves on their last couple of albums.
 

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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:09:17 +0200
From: spooman at freenet.de
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] MMXII first listen

Thanks for the links and the nice way of pointing out that there might be
one. "Anyone feeling ambitious can check Bunalti, Torrentzap, Bitsnoop etc.
and let us know what they find." hehehe.
Not to worry, although I haven't preordered it yet, I'll buy the Single(s),
Vinyl and CD - and shall do so quite happily. I  like the gloomy EDVREish
atmosphere of "Pole Shift", "Fema Camp" and "Corporate Elect". "Trance" is
the only one, that hasn't had any effect on me so far and "Colony Collapse"
and Glitch would be other favs.
I'm very fond of the different atmos The Joke create on every single album -
I think they really rock in a dark way on MMXII - but I'll have to admit
that I'm a bit dissapointed by a certain sloppiness songwriting-wise. That
one part of "Glitch" is very similar to "Majestic" AND "Intravenous", isn't
it? And "Corporate Elect" isn't really something entirely different from
"MINOG". I like them nevertheless...
Isn't it funny, how of all bands the Joke  seem to have no difficulty in
writing erm touching songs on a regular basis, that once would have been
filed under the gruesome term "ballad"? :-)

Marcel

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