-- Sunn - White 1 | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 13.99 Amazon Price $ 13.99 Savings $ 0.00 | |  Release Date: 22 April, 2003, Southern Lord
TRACK LISTING - My Wall - featuring Julian Cope
- The Gates of Ballard
- A Shaving of the Horn that Speared You
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | i suppose it`s around 3.5-4 stars | | the album definately helps in aiding meditation, relaxation, and other forms of mellowing out and is also a nice thing to have on while you finish your daily rounds around the household. it`s effective in it`s trance-inducing abilities, though the vocals on this album don`t always rub me the right way. julian cope has a nice voice, his poetry is ok depending on whether or not i`m in the mood to hear him ramble. sometimes i think it would work better if his `vocals` were on a separate track from the droning chords and frequencies that accompany his words on `my wall`. the female vocals on the album are a little strange. i haven`t taken to them quite yet, but they`re good at breaking up the pieces. i`m not sorry i purchased this album, i`ll probably be spinning it for some time. edit: it`s rather funny how when i`ve given an album time to sink in, it`s quirks become endearing. so what can i say, i like i a lot. | | | | My first Sunn O))) experience | | This is the first CD I`ve bought from this band I`ve heard SO much about, and I just had to give them a whirl. The advisement on the traycard that "maximum volume yields maximum results" is absolutely true. Seeing Sunn O)))`s name thrown around by countless acts or even just popping up on clothing sported by said acts (including locals Buried at Sea), I pretty much knew what I was in for. Well, to review this here CD particularly, I didn`t care much for the opening spoken word part, but after that`s over, the second half of the opening track is HEAVY and SLOW (two things I happen to like). I dug the second track a lot with its odd sound. The last cut, taking minimalism to a whole new art form, was completely crushing in the way that only a lack of music can convey. Coming from the more metal-leaning slow, heavy acts (Sleep, Corrupted, Buried at Sea, etc.) this was a little more esoteric, but I loved it the whole way through. How much low end can you take? | | | | In light of the last Sunn0))) album, disappointing... | | As minimal as the last Sunn0))) disc was, it spent a ton of time in my CD player for at least several months. The album`s production was absolutely top-notch for this brand of music, especially in comparison to Earth`s seminal Earth 2 album and earlier Sunn0))) outtings like 00 Void and The Grim Robe Demos. White 1 strays a bit from the typical Sunn0))) approach, which is totally respectable in light of how limited a style of music power drone can tend to be, but simply isn`t as powerful as Flight of the Behemoth. The production is a bit flat, particularly on the opening track, which features a questionable spoken word track above the gloom and doom. I can`t say any of the tracks really grab me as did the tracks on Flight of the Behemoth, though I did enjoy the minimalist silence of A Shaving of the Horn That Speared You. Still, it is a respectable outting that takes a different approach to an old style. | | |
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