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[Rua]

Noise Museum by Kick In The Head.

Like the cover art.

1. Squeaky opening punky guitar riff leads to my ears being filled with drums, vocals & a rather Horrors sounding organ. Quite like The Rapture in places too. I like this.

2. Interesting enough instrumental using computer game sound synth samples, screeching guitar & drum loops. Sounds a bit like some of the instrumental stuff by Does it Offend You, Yeah? actually.

3. Echoed voices, delayed guitar & bass lead into an instrumental with an eastern lilt on the guitar melody. Goes close to Kula Shaker territory at one point. Didn't grab me.

4. Soulful electronic house tune which makes great use of a Theremin & the occasionally blast of brass. Take away the Theremin & brass though & you have some a fairly ordinary electronic house with a female vocal. Not crazy about it, but don’t mind it.

5. American Indie Rock heavily influenced by Jeff Buckley & mildly by Radiohead. As by numbers as this is, it’s a very well crafted song (with a great ending by the way) & I have to say I liked it. I think I’ll check these guys out despite the worry his voice may grate on me after a while.

6. A kind of Sigur Ros goes electro indie track, which rouses itself from a minimalistic composition to cacophony of electronic sounds & vocal harmonies & back again. I enjoyed.

7. Masterful & rather summery little mix of various styles, by a certain Japanese breakbeat artist by any chance? Must be. Surely.

8. A lovely piece from one of my favourite artists. Beautiful orchestration throughout with playful story driven songwriting.

9. Simplistic & minimalist piece with soft delayed organ dominated by a choral voice. More soothing than haunting. Rather good. It sounds mighty familiar.

10. Dirty blues guitar riff with a single violin provide a solitary feeling to this track. It grows with the addition of more strings which seem to drag the rest of the languid, bluesy guitar & vocals along. Ok. Not a favourite of mine.

11. Staying with the more downbeat tempo is a rather interesting & altogether more optimistic sounding track with a good use of effects in conjunction with drumbeat & strings. It gathers a little pace as it goes on but ends quietly. Inventive & nice.

12. Experimental Folk Rock taking that old cowboy rock staple & stretching slightly here & there. Pleasant & a nice end to the CD.

A great little collection of tunes there so it is, with very little to dislike.

8 out of 10.

Tracklist would be most appreciated.

This post has been edited by Rua: Oct 9 2008, 02:36 PM