Rather same-ish despite them trying so desperately to play the same thing they have been doing during their last outings just harder and faster. One could almost feel sorry for them but it is just not humanly possibly, neither will twiddling those synthesizer buttons count for creativity. It just won't add anything to that oh-so progressive avant-guard which hasn't really gone anywhere new since the 90s...(some jsay since the 70s!)
Nicely, 'tastefully' arranged, but really not as good as hyped! Obviously a masterful multi-instrumentalist with ideas but the build-ups and intensifications emanate 'heard it before!/'Saw it coming' and the guitar bits are not that dramatic. Bit of a 'model collapse' as all this was done a somewhat better on Bellum I.
Nice try at doing something new but, alas, like song-writing by numbers and algorithms.
The drums! The guitar! The boldness! It's deep and arrestingly beautiful, too, with polymorphous diverse world-building. It's like Jarrett and his non-repetitive guitar are weaving a very complex and fully furnished habitable sculpture and at the same time he's whizzing through and haring around the corners. Almost gnostic art really where raw genre music, rarefied artifice and rawest abstract death metal, that stand for different ways of being and seeing, combine to create a ... read more
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