Cormorant

Shriekback - Cormorant

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Artist: Shriekback
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Music Label: Malicious Damage Records/Darla
Soundtracks:
  1. Ronny
  2. Sea Theory
  3. Waterbaby
  4. Huytfi DBL Plus
  5. The Strongest Wind That Blows
  6. Load the Boat
  7. Troublemeat
  8. Reason with the Beast
  9. Bonehead
  10. Voiled Karletus
  11. True Passage
  12. Il Mystera del Tempo

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Music Review: Barry Andrews/Shriekback's "Commorant"_ EXCITINGLY Blows Off All The Doors and Reverberates Your Spine from THE BASSLINE!!!
Rating: 5 Stars

...and it just keeps getting better and better the more you listen to it. Wow! WoW!! WOW!!! BEST ALBUM BY SHRIEKBACK IN YEARS!!! (Best/most groundbreaking album I have heard in years period) Barry Andrews-after all these years-you are at your PEAK here!!! and lucky for all of us your son Finn Andrews seems to have inherited your talents/proclivities which combined together are AMAZING!!!! (I hope to see future collaborations from you both)...this is one of the few bands I can say that there is very little to dislike AND A HELL OF ALOT TO LOVE over the years-truly one of the most excitingly original bands you will ever hear and (personally) one of my alltime favorites-but I have to give it to them-this album 'CORMORANT'REALLY ROCKS!!!...CRACKS THE ICE, GETS THE JAM, and TRULY BUSTS DOWN ALL THE DOORS!!!..and then even KEEPS GOING UP&UP&UP from there!!!)

I have been a Shriekback fan since I was a young teenager in the early 80's (Coming into musical consciousness somewhere around the time of the incredible vinyl album release, "JAM SCIENCE" in 1982 (along with subsequent OIL & GOLD, Jam Science still my favorite album to date if I had to say). I very much got into the sounds of XTC and Gang of Four (Shriekback was the progeny of these bands)-but I believe were TRULY SURPASSED, PERFECTED, GIVEN THEIR MOST TRANSCENDANT & DISTURBINGLY MOVING VOICE in the ethereal sounds, hauntingly dark/soulful (ultimately electrically innervating)deep rich voice of Barry Andrews (he makes the hairs on your arm stand up-most incredible/original voice ever-has not changed or weakened AT ALL over the years), wonderful counterpoint and unity with (certain tracks where) soul-sister enhancing back-up vocals that come into play at the chorus refrains, and unparalleled really funky bass-guitar rifts carried over from Gang of Four's Dave Allen-a tradition maintained and yet transcended throughout Comorant...

...In this album, there is the addition of more recent sounds that have seeped up into the new millenium: that i.e., draw on an ambient-grooved deep base, drum-and-base, techno (infused throughout THOUGH very softly-and subsequently INSIDIOUSLY CREEP in to fill/enrich the spaces between the notes-without ever overwhelming that wonderful defining "Shriek" sound cut up by Andrews voice & jagged bass rift edginess that really defines Shriekbacks wonderfully unique style that makes them really, Really, REALLY different from anything else you've ever heard! The exceedingly intelligent lyrics and WONDERFUL WORDPLAY CONTINUE HERE...those who remember the song Nemesis from the Oil and Gold album, "Big black nemesis,parthenogenesis-No one move a muscle as the dead come home" will not be disaapointed with (amongst others) the wonderful track "Voiled Karletus" which snappily reels out a NY Times Crossword Puzzle-enhancing vocabulary, "the righteous goons, check out their runes as they caper with a taper to some acid tunes...the savage toys the lord employs make 'em snivel as they swivel like an anglepoise"...

...then on the other side of the spectrum is the incredibly ethereal/trance-like/emotionally/spiritually moving base & bass-driven TIMELESS tracks like Sea Theory, Waterboys, and The Strongest Wind That Blows, True Passage (probably my favorite tracks on this cd)..along with the song "TROUBLEMEAT" which gets me to really crank up the volume and ejects me off my arse, sends me to the floor dancing every time!!! (so does Load The Boat,Bonehead, and Voiled Karletus)Without sounding like overinflated pretentious crap, Have you ever heard of intellectual dance music? Is that even possible?...YES!!!...SHRIEKBACK BRIDGES THAT GAP!!!...

TRUST ME!!! This CD will satisfy/ultimately overcome every crack, crevice, and caveat of the deepest recesses in your soul. BUY IT!!! (Better yet become a "Shriek Freak" and buy all their past albums too...you won't be disappointed..this will be the band you and your friends remember/still affects you 20-30 years down the road!!!)
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