Thursday, April 28, 2005
Lost And Found
In case anyone cares, I have Mudvayne's recently released album, 'Lost And Found'.
On the plus side, it sounds like a Mudvayne album, which is a good thing. Their bassist still tends towards playing lead, kickarse rhythm guitarist, trippy-sounding clean vocals and demonic growling. Oh, and a psychotic drummer that rarely keeps to a metronomic beat.
Unfortunately, it also adheres to the Mudvayne trademarks of manic-depressive, 'why me?' lyrics.
They've made this one sound more like The End Of All Things To Come than L.D. 50, despite promises that it draws from both albums equally. Not that I'm complaining. The musical complexity is even more accentuated now, kinda like a much more melodic, rhythmic Meshuggah. You know, like if Meshuggah wrote music that actually WORKED 90% of the time. As much as I like Meshuggah, that's quite a novel concept.
Some of the songs are pretty shocking, though. Choices is just awful. The vocals are damned painful to listen to on that track. It seems if you want an example of the limits of Chad's vocal talent, you need not look past this song. And Determined seems to be a gap-filler. Kinda punchy and aggressive, theoretically a great start to the album, but it's quite a simple song, most notably in the lyrics.
Oh, well. Despite the lyrics and those two or thre awful songs, and the fact that it sounds an awful lot like TEOATTC, I'm still listening to it.
Ooh. Also got my paws on Dream Theater's 1994 release 'Awake'. It rocks. That is all.
Now, if more than one reader of this blog got anything out of this post, I will be stunned.
On the plus side, it sounds like a Mudvayne album, which is a good thing. Their bassist still tends towards playing lead, kickarse rhythm guitarist, trippy-sounding clean vocals and demonic growling. Oh, and a psychotic drummer that rarely keeps to a metronomic beat.
Unfortunately, it also adheres to the Mudvayne trademarks of manic-depressive, 'why me?' lyrics.
They've made this one sound more like The End Of All Things To Come than L.D. 50, despite promises that it draws from both albums equally. Not that I'm complaining. The musical complexity is even more accentuated now, kinda like a much more melodic, rhythmic Meshuggah. You know, like if Meshuggah wrote music that actually WORKED 90% of the time. As much as I like Meshuggah, that's quite a novel concept.
Some of the songs are pretty shocking, though. Choices is just awful. The vocals are damned painful to listen to on that track. It seems if you want an example of the limits of Chad's vocal talent, you need not look past this song. And Determined seems to be a gap-filler. Kinda punchy and aggressive, theoretically a great start to the album, but it's quite a simple song, most notably in the lyrics.
Oh, well. Despite the lyrics and those two or thre awful songs, and the fact that it sounds an awful lot like TEOATTC, I'm still listening to it.
Ooh. Also got my paws on Dream Theater's 1994 release 'Awake'. It rocks. That is all.
Now, if more than one reader of this blog got anything out of this post, I will be stunned.
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