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HAY GUYZ! I'm on the album too! Don't you like me?
I've got pumping drums, with sweet air sucking whack-a-snare, plucky arpeggios, dirty hard-panned synths, ride cymbals, stringy pads, a real drum kit and I just build and build until the HAM radio peacocks warble in and take me out.
this track really deserves a stand alone listen. it whispers the desert - not the Mojave but the Sahara with the so very subtle middle eastern introduction. the ensuing beat occupies your head space like a thick pillow of rolling lava. the plucks, the arpeggios, the snare follow suit. they are all positively sublime constituents of my favorite BOC elements.
this for me is pure, knee-buckling perfection. it is also the audio counterpart to the word 'longing.'
when i heard it for the first time in the desert it brought me to a standstill. i just stood there head back, eyes closed. i knew this was something very special and remember it vividly.
my 'top this and that' lists will continue to change and evolve, but after nearly a serious 100 listens - this still brought chills to me today on the ride home. no matter what happens, i will love this one forever.
i'd like to add - while this one is my declared favorite, i'm liking it more and more. so much that i went out and bought a turntable yesterday and ordered the vinyl so i can hear it differently than i already have. cant say i've ever gone to this length for a song before.
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I love this piece. An excellent climax to the album and to me the true closer. A great half-step beat, sly arps, epic drone score. The end with the synth wipes and is that more subliminal voices at the end? Definitely worth more listens.
Quillz wrote:A very good track. I agree that it probably would have worked better as the closing track, rather than the penultimate one.
I think it would have been too neat and tidy an ending. Semena Mertvykh is almost like another movie starting... like you stayed in the theater after the movie was over and this nightmarish film starts that you weren't supposed to see...
Uncomfortable ending with a sense of vague dread... perfect.
Helios wrote:I think this is my least favorite track. It sounds NOTHING like BoC to me. Really surprised people are all over this one.
further evidence of the subjective listening experience! of course in a year you might find yourself thinking of this track ... then boom - new instant favorite. or not.
My favourite Song of the whole Album. The Beginning with the drums is so good. After all this song is different and this is maybe the reason why i like it even more. For me this is the proof that BoC did change like every musican has to do because this song is far away from the other songs.
Helios wrote:I think this is my least favorite track. It sounds NOTHING like BoC to me. Really surprised people are all over this one.
I love all the songs on the album (seriously, it's nuts, not just saying that) but it sort of doesn't sound like them to me either, or atleast the synth line sounds different than anything they've done before.
I totally disagree about it being the closer though, I think it's right where it belongs.
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
I'll probably get mullered for saying this, but to me this is clearly the track to which reviewers are referring when they mention the 'dubstep' influence on the album.
I don't feel that way myself, but the beat is clearly in a similar style to what most people think of when they think of dubstep - that brostep, half speed rhythm. (Yes I know that's not what dubstep originally was all about yadda yadda... but the vast majority of people associate that sort of beat with it now.)
ANYWAY, that aside I quite like this one - not my favourite on the album by any means but I do love the way it layers up as it goes on, and I really like the middle part with its more understated beat.
I'm going to say this is my least favourite on the new album. It's not without its charms, and I've had it stuck in my head a fair amount, but for me this is possibly the campest thing I've heard BOC do. There's something strangely ballad-like about it, like a Bond theme or something like that. The melodrama puts me in mind of something Shirley Bassey would sing over.
Of course "least favourite" doesn't quite equate to "dislike", just has a flavour I wasn't quite expecting.
If you don't have the dik sometime, then the art is not about human race. Then is not art. This my theory.
Quillz wrote:A very good track. I agree that it probably would have worked better as the closing track, rather than the penultimate one.
I think it would have been too neat and tidy an ending. Semena Mertvykh is almost like another movie starting... like you stayed in the theater after the movie was over and this nightmarish film starts that you weren't supposed to see...
Uncomfortable ending with a sense of vague dread... perfect.
From the Guardian interview:
Another example would maybe be at the end of the whole album, you've reached some sort of sanctuary and then the whole thing is stolen away from you again with the final track. That last track has a deliberate feeling of complete futility that I find kind of funny.
i thoroughly enjoyed the boc broadcast, and this is one song which stuck out as my favourite. i'm longing for the record to arrive on my doorstep so i can listen to it again!
