so what does everyone think of scab dates, the recently released live album by our favourite prog rock guitar masturbation meditation combination?
i've been listening to it all day for about a week now, and so far i have to say this might become my favourite live album of all times. why?
deloused in the comatorium was a mysterious head first fall into the rabbit hole of which this new recording is the next step. i saw them in my city in march(ish) and i was absolutely blown away by the continuity they manage to achieve even by merely improvising through themes of songs that once were.
what am i talking about? the "background story" of deloused, someone in a coma, drifting, falling through a twilight zone of memories and distant impressions, embodied through the partly stringent and in a traditional sense dramatic music, interrupted or disrupted in places by unidentifiable sounds and words, you could feel that live. you were there.
scab dates makes a quite successful attempt to capture the madness, the loneliness and the feel of that mind-boggling journey through the outer rims.
no compromises. cicatriz, or what's left of it, goes on for about 40 minutes, and it never gets boring. the version of take the veil cerpin taxt is the best i've ever heard.
technical stuff: runs 73 mins. songs played: take the veil, concertina, cicatriz, bits of others, divided into 12 tracks.
one thing i didn't like so much is that the recording of cicatriz features lots of reverb, which makes it sound a bit too blurry for my taste but that's marginal. |
