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:: Review ::

If I could not write anything and you all would get the point I would. Translation: I'm speechless. I don't know if any words can do this album justice. But since this is an album review, I'm forced to tell you a bunch of stuff, so here it is. Listening to this recording is like watching your favorite avant-garde movie over and over. It gets better each time. You have your best parts. You learn something new each time. You miss it when it's gone. You can't wait to see it again. When the album is over, you sit and ponder what just happened and the full range of emotions you have just felt. You think for a bit and then yearn to hear it again, for you know you will experience something hauntingly beautiful. You will learn more about life, you will ponder your own death, and what you may feel in the initial stages of the afterlife. What this album can teach you, I will let you figure out for yourself. Each one of us will feel something unique. This is how I felt…

The first track "Savior", is the most straightforward rocker on the album. It starts out simple with the solo beat of the drums. The simplicity a stark contrast for what is to come. The next track "Holocaust", is something you might hear in the corners of your mind just after you've been given anesthesia and you are drifting away. This is the bridge that leads us into the meat of the recording. "Over Your Shoulder" gives us a little advice from the band "…to keep us from dying". "Don't engage in any kind of dreaming, conscious through it all…" floats through our minds. With the hint of eeriness at the ending, we know something is coming. The feeling of suspense seeps into your soul.

"Psalms" leads us into desolation. I see myself, eyes squinting moving side to side, creeping around a corner, in a dark alley, in a darker place, in the rain. The line "he don't want to make the transition into meat that feeds the ground" is very clever. I feel my heart beating faster as I heed this advice. "God is Coming" gives us the sensation of floating around weightless. A creepy, slow intro, sparse and haunting lyrics, into the most hard and killer beats on the album. Towards the end of the song our weightlessness is stripped away. We begin to hopelessly plummet downward to smash upon the pavement. Interestingly enough as we move into the next song "Angelic", the lyrics remind me of the last thing you think of before you die. "Flowers", is like we are on another plane looking down upon someone taking flowers from our grave. Acknowledging the feelings of freedom and peace, twisted with shock, fear, and anger that we might feel after our own death. "The Last Laugh" deals with the pain of loss and ends with the ticking of a clock. The last track "Going Nowhere" picks up the clock sound and ticks on and on and on and on and on. Letting us know our lives are going nowhere. This is the longest track of the album clocking-in (ha-ha) at 7:59.

My version of the album included two acoustic bonus tracks. Gorgeous renditions of "Over Your Shoulder" and "Flowers". I have nothing negative to say about this soundtrack for life, and death, and loss. Lyrically, musically, and vocally speaking, it is excellent. The haunting and angelic guest vocals of Michelle Richfield (Sear) and Drug Free America's Hayley Windsor, fit perfectly evoking a vast array of emotions. When music can do that, Bravo.

9.5 out of 10 keyboards.
Reviewed By: Lord M

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:: Honors ::
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:: Credits ::
bonus tracks:
michael moss (guitar,vocals)*
danny cavanagh (guitar,vocals)**
jenny o’connor (vocals)**

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recorded at academy studios, september 2000
produced by antimatter & mags
les smith (sampling), brian moss (sampling)
mags (lead guitar on “going nowhere”)
*&** recorded at lipa, liverpool, november 1-5 2001
engineered by stuart o’leary & mac
produced by michael moss, stuart o’leary & mac
mastered by duncan patterson

danny cavanagh appears courtesy of mfn
artwork by mark kelson
design by adrian owens
all songs by duncan patterson & michael moss

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:: DISCOGRAPHY ::
Saviour - 2002

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