Post by yeahyeahtron on Oct 29, 2012 22:18:25 GMT 1
What an amazing album! Has to be one of my favourite albums this year...
It might lack the obvious first choice single just like "Daniel" on Two Suns... But this album is a great body of work and contains some stunning moments as well... Fans of the previous albums will find this album as different but as compelling as listening to Two Suns after Fur & Gold for the first time... The Haunted Man is a departure however but the signature tones are still there... The biggest difference is Natasha Khan's stripped voice... There's barely any reverb whatsoever... The album lacks much of the melodrama that created that dense atmosphere on her previous albums...
What I love most however is the fact that most of the tracks contain different instrumentation with the most distinctive being those tribal drums on the title track & Horses Of The Sun and what sounds like a completely haunting male choir on "Oh Yeah" & the title track again...
On first listen the standout tracks were definitely the two singles, and Rest Your Head which MUST be a single... It is definitely the catchiest BFL song since Daniel... The aformentioned Horses of the Sun is the most reminiscent of previous BFL incarnations... I can recall "Prescilla" & "Sarah" while listening to it... "A Wall" sounds as if it's the darker cousin of "Pearl's Dream"...
However this album excels most when she barks into new territories... "Oh Yeah" is a stunning 80's electro-goth number... "Winter Fields" & "Marilyn" are shivering moments and huge growers... Opener "Lillies" builds into a beautiful climax while closer "Deep Sea Diver" contains the most standout vocals by Natasha Khan to date and is as epic as BFL can get... Surely no one can forget the stunning "Laura" which is surely the most intimate song BFL have offered yet and the upbeat second single All Your Gold.
9.5 Lillies
8.5 All Your Gold
9.5 Horses Of The Sun
10 Oh Yeah
9.0 Laura
10 Winter Fields
9.0 The Haunted Man
10 Marilyn
8.5 A Wall
9.5 Rest Your Head
9.0 Deep Sea Diver
Overall : 9.5
It might lack the obvious first choice single just like "Daniel" on Two Suns... But this album is a great body of work and contains some stunning moments as well... Fans of the previous albums will find this album as different but as compelling as listening to Two Suns after Fur & Gold for the first time... The Haunted Man is a departure however but the signature tones are still there... The biggest difference is Natasha Khan's stripped voice... There's barely any reverb whatsoever... The album lacks much of the melodrama that created that dense atmosphere on her previous albums...
What I love most however is the fact that most of the tracks contain different instrumentation with the most distinctive being those tribal drums on the title track & Horses Of The Sun and what sounds like a completely haunting male choir on "Oh Yeah" & the title track again...
On first listen the standout tracks were definitely the two singles, and Rest Your Head which MUST be a single... It is definitely the catchiest BFL song since Daniel... The aformentioned Horses of the Sun is the most reminiscent of previous BFL incarnations... I can recall "Prescilla" & "Sarah" while listening to it... "A Wall" sounds as if it's the darker cousin of "Pearl's Dream"...
However this album excels most when she barks into new territories... "Oh Yeah" is a stunning 80's electro-goth number... "Winter Fields" & "Marilyn" are shivering moments and huge growers... Opener "Lillies" builds into a beautiful climax while closer "Deep Sea Diver" contains the most standout vocals by Natasha Khan to date and is as epic as BFL can get... Surely no one can forget the stunning "Laura" which is surely the most intimate song BFL have offered yet and the upbeat second single All Your Gold.
9.5 Lillies
8.5 All Your Gold
9.5 Horses Of The Sun
10 Oh Yeah
9.0 Laura
10 Winter Fields
9.0 The Haunted Man
10 Marilyn
8.5 A Wall
9.5 Rest Your Head
9.0 Deep Sea Diver
Overall : 9.5
