by
Kinski
- Record Label: Strange Attractors
- Release Date: May 4, 2004
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As a live recording, it’s severely impressive, and sounds far more like an obsessively premeditated studio creation than anything on Kinski’s last official album.
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This is music best heard in the dark, on your back.
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By and large, the band works well in this context, but the first two pieces on the album absolutely dominate the last three, making them feel essentially superfluous.
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That Kinski succeeds at knocking you over with noise on one album and then killing with you silence on the next is something to marvel at.
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While Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water is a nice change of pace and a pleasant excursion in the free-drone for an underrated guitar band, it lacks any real defining moments that would make it a more noteworthy and essential album.
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Compared to Chris Martin's solo work as Ampbuzz, Herzog's efforts can certainly be more forceful and less meditative, though often only by a matter of degrees.
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Not all Kinski fans will need, or even want, this disc, and the group seems to understand that.
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The WireSadly their rather airless space rock doesn't really lift off beyond a certain Ambient politeness. [#244, p.66]