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Apparently after the show tomorrow night, Colbertnation.com is going to start streaming Embryonic. Fuck to the yeah.
Same here, I rarely listen to streams. Still cool for peeps who wanna check it out ahead of time. I'll probably succumb and listen to the leak, but I'm going to try and wait to spin it on the table as well.
I want to be Wayne. It's really quite silly.
I'd like to thank Comedy Central for starting it late (or something) and having my DVR stop recording it one line into "Convinced of the Hex." Awesome. At least Colbert gets reran 17 times an episode.
Stay free.
Wow, that was certainly something.
First off, yes, I do love this album. It's fantastic. For those who weren't already aware, this is NOT a double album, it's a double LP. 73 minutes. Furthermore, it's nowhere near as scattered as I would have expected. As a matter of fact, it's arguably their most cohesive album to date. The Embryonic EP is EXACTLY what you're getting with this album. This is, of course, good or bad, depending on your preferences. I, for one, found a few flaws on first listen.
The main one is not necessarily a symptom of cohesion, but it's an unfortunate pitfall many bands fall into when they're recording albums along Embryonic's line: there aren't a lot of standouts. Maybe 3 or 4 out of 18 tracks. Silver Trembling Hands is, in fact, the best song, and one of the band's all-time best. It absolutely fucking floors me every single time, and it sounds even better in context. Incredible. Also, Convinced Of The Hex, The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine, and The Ego's Last Stand stand out. Otherwise, this is a mood piece. Period. It's loud and overly compressed, which pretty much defeats the purpose of an album of this kind (another of the album's relatively few flaws), but don't come in expecting Yoshimi or the best moments of Mystics. This is The Observer, Pavonis Mons, and The Wizard Turns On times four, interspersed with the occasional superb track. Treat it like one of Brian Eno's earlier, more rocking efforts and you'll appreciate it far more. Embryonic is largely new territory for the band.
Is it top 10 material for the year? Yeah, probably. All I know is a handful of the tracks absolutely blow my mind, and they've brought back the distorted drums. They have been missed.
Thanks for the review Mel. This is streaming somewhere, yes?
Motherfuck, this is a gem of an album. I've got my $$ set aside for this shit easy.
I agree with this entirely. One of my friends compared it to their live act, how it's a series of jams, and I was skeptical at first, but yeah, coheres extremely well.
The standouts for me are "I Can Be a Frog," "Watching the Planets" (both with THE O!), "Powerless," "Ego's Last Stand," and "Silver Trembling Hands."
I Can Be A Frog is the closest the album comes to that jaunty Yoshimi Pt. 1 campfire singalong sound. I really like it a lot, and I think I'll like it even more once I've gotten used THE O!'s admittedly entertaining/adorable interjections. That kind of threw me off guard at first.
Furthermore, it's nowhere near as scattered as I would have expected. As a matter of fact, it's arguably their most cohesive album to date.
I never picked up those 5.1 mixes of their post-Zaireeka albums. Are they worth it?
I like the sound of that.
Listened to the first three songs on the Colbert stream and I already like it more than Mystics.
You guys are tempting me.
Stay on target.
Yes and yes.
It's important to me that my first listen is in the living room, spinning on the platter, and loud enough to get me evicted.