Week Thirty Five........My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky...........Swans

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My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky………………………..Swans

This introduces the MD album review to experimental music!

Track One No Word No Thoughts :Music concrete seems the order of the day , low order and planning just sound collages………………this is atmospheric music suited to producing mind pictures or abstract emotions. There is something of the Syd Barratt Pink Floyd in parts of this: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????


Track Two Reeling The Liars In: Acoustic guitar oddities , If Salvador Dali had ever played guitar then this is how he might sound………………………………????!!!”””””””@@@@@@


Track Three Jim : Very alternative and thought provoking.


Track Four My Birth: This seems to be heavy metal based, and very repetitive!


Track Five You F***ing People Make Me Sick: Mandolin is used here to provide a hypnotic base for a simple rhythmic track, a surreal child voice harmony is employed to add to the affect, crashing piano chords lead the track to a confused ending, which resembles an audio interpretation of a WW2 dogfight in the sky.


Track Six Inside Madeline : Military drumming , a bass guitar riff and a track is born. Finally a Lou Read type vocal …………………..


Track Seven Eden Prison: Another heavy and regular start! Sounds like an audio picture of a long prison sentence……….Maybe the man was sentence to a vocal stretch of over six minutes? As innovative a feel about life in prison as Johnny Cash’s Falsom Prison Blues.


Track Eight Little Mouth: The final track. This track starts with a performance by the artist’s cat? Dower vocal with flat overtones brings us the verbal message of the lyrics. :eek::fear::attention:

This album is an experiment in what can be achieved with sound. Bizarre, but, interesting almost addictive and surreal !