Recent Album Reviews
I've been meaning to write up some album reviews for the ever growing mass of recently acquired music this year, and late last year but I always find writing reviews hard - hard to give enough justice to the music, hard to fully articulate any thoughts or feelings that came up whilst listening. As we've been using Mind Meister for the Illegal Argument podcast, I thought I'd do the same to map out the music and thoughts:
What started as a fairly simple mind map quickly grew into a entwined mess of genre mixing music centering around a melodic, yet frenetic mishmash of technical, progressive, and extreme styles. From artists like Belarus based Thelema, whose progressive/technical death metal fuzes elements of jazz then sliding over to the advant garde jazz entwined mathcore of Berlin based War From A Harlot's Mouth. The discovery of Prog Archives via Twitter led to a financial downfall and music journey of discovery with such delightful findings such as Brazilian based Dialeto, Norways Gazpacho, Puerto Rico's Trili.
Standout "big name" albums of recent adoration include the new Ty Tabor (Kings X) solo album "Balance", Tim "The Ripper" Owen's new solo album "Play My Game", Heaven and Hells (damnit, it's Sabbath ok?) "The Devil You Know".
Out of everything I've been listening to lately, I've not found any duds, however the new Chariot release "Wars and Rumours of Wars" and Leif Edling's solo album "Songs of Torment, Songs of Joy" were definite letdowns.
The album mind map is so cool.. Brian Eno would have been proud of that!