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: : Anathema - A natural disaster : : |
Band/Artist
Anathema
Title:
A natural disaster
Released
2004
Label
Koch Records |
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Track List
1. Harmonium
2. Balance
3. Closer
4. Are you there?
5. Childhood dream
6. Pulled under at 2000 meters a second
7. A natural disaster
8. Flying
9. Electricity
10. Violence |
: : The Players : :
Vincent-vocals, guitar | Jamie-bass, programming | John-drums |
Les-programming, keys | Danny-guitars, keys, vocals |
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: : A Natural
Disaster : :
Hold on a second let me wake up… ok, ok I’m here, don’t let that mislead you meaning
I was bored listening to “A Natural Disaster”, quite the contrary. I find the
numbing effects of music such as this incredibly exhilarating. I love it actually.
It is dreamy, and mean, haunting, distant, and oh so smooth. When listening I feel
pain, and passion. I feel at times like I am 10 million miles away, and at others
like I couldn’t get any closer. Its like the music works on a higher level of your
brain, simulating parts and places that aren’t even bothered with “normal” musical
impulses.
The vocals are gorgeous—all of them, from everyone, male, female, and computer
alike. The mood is a pleasant surreal. The lyrics are eerie, personal, cold, and
loving. The players live in a familiar, yet alien atmosphere, its almost like your
being hypnotized, that feeling when you can feel yourself floating away from the
world that you know, in that second where you still have a bit of sense about you,
right before the last moment you remember. That is the space in which Anathema
exists.
The album has a very natural flow, like lava oozing from a volcano, not exploding,
but ever so slowly moving, carefully, elegantly molding and melting everything in
its path. It’s so good, from the melodious intro riffs of “Harmonium” to the
rhythmic intensity of “Balance” into “Closer”, you know you are in for a ride. By
track four “Are You There?” we are fully embraced in Anathema’s lost world, or
should I say world of loss.
Five is an effects piece. Six prophesizes “freedom is only a hallucination that
waits at the edge of the places you go when you dream”. Lyrics are deeply profound.
The delicate female vocal form takes over in the title track courtesy of Lee Douglas
who lulls us further into this trancelike state of hurtful bliss. A Natural Disaster
is exactly what it says, a smooth but sometimes harsh, beautiful yet mildly
disturbing subterranean and ethereal journey through common emotions. And at its
core proves that just when you think you got it all, what is it that you actually
have? and why does it hurt so badly?
“In a split second the foundations for a peaceful fulfilling life can be blasted
away to the four corners of reality… almost as if it were an act of a truly evil
god”.
9 out of 10.
Reviewer: Lord M
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