Quote:
Originally Posted by kwitel /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Ive seen them live and much to my surprise, they sounded horrible.
Now it might have been the sound system or the venue acoustics but theyre mayhem-styled-musicianship IMO just does not translate well live.
Too much stuff going on at once, coming from different directions and the vocals were way too recessed to really follow what was going on.
|
Unfortuately I can echo this statement. I saw them here at a relatively small venue (The Tabernacle sp?) and they sounded pretty rough, bordering on bad. It was also very unfortuante that most of the people there were what I would call "hipsters" who were there because it was the cool thing to do and not for the music, if that makes any sense.
This was back when they were touring for Frances, and The Widow was making it's rounds on the radio which may have had something to do with that. If I were to go to a show today, it would probably be a much better crowd.
For me, Bedlam, Frances, and De-Loused rank really close together as excellent albums. Which one takes first really depends on the mood. However, Amputechture have had less than a dozen spins since I bought it on release day. Everything on that album just seemed too dragged out, though the album did have some very, very good moments you had to wade through too much filler to get to them. Still, their worst is a whole lot better than some other groups best. I would kill to hear a quality remastering of De-Loused. Despite being plain awesome, it still sounds like a wall of noise for the most part.
All that said, I'm positively stoked for the new album. Normally their albums are leaked a few months in advance, so I'm wondering why there are no copies to be found on the internets. If I didn't have that long period to get used to Frances I wouldn't have liked it near as much when I actually bought the album when it officially came out.
