Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
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Artist: Coheed & CambriaEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Keeping The Blade
- Always & Never
- Welcome Home
- Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)
- Crossing The Frame
- Apollo I : The Writing Writer
- Once Upon Your Dead Body
- Wake Up
- The Suffering
- The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court
- Mother May I
- The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End
- The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
- The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth
- The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut
Free Music Notes for Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
Free Music Review: Stunning
Hit: 4 Stars
To say the least, I was thoroughly surprised by this band. A lot of their older stuff didn't seem to click, really, for me anyways. In particular, the main single from the album before this, In Keeping the Secrets of Silent Earth 3, "A Favor House Atlantic," sounded a kind of, well, annoying to me.
Here, though, it comes round excellently. Slick production opens right with both "Keeping the Blade," and "Always & Never," a pair of softer songs which lead straight into the pounding intensity of "Welcome Home," all of which are three of the best tracks on this album.
Many elements of this album will have you good and hooked with ease. Songs like "Ten Speed," "Crossing the Frame," and another of the band's singles "The Suffering" will have you wanting more, but only for a time.
Whatever it is, it feels almost as though there is something about this album itself that turns me off from it from time to time. If I see Coheed and Cambria on my computer or my iPod, I now tend to turn my attention to part 2 of this album, the superior No World For Tomorrow. Somewhere behind all the catchyness is something that just feels undesirable.
Whatever the case, this album still deserves a good long listen, and many more beyond that. Check out part 2 if you like this and the rest of their albums if you're interested in the sci-fi concept behind the two main characters, Coheed and Cambria, who are remanents of a military project and their children, as a result, carry a sort of virus that ultimately begins to lead to global apocalypse. The two characters don't want this, just wanting to raise their children, and they try to make the best of it for them, confronting all of the dangers along the way.
****4 out of 5 stars****
My favorite tracks:
- "Keeping the Blade"
- "Always and Never"
- "Welcome Home"
- "Ten Speed (Of God's Blood and Burial)"
- "The Suffering"
- "The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth"
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness Poster
There's a lot to be said for continuity and high concept, and Coheed and Cambria have invented an elaborate geeky parallel sci-fi world that spread over four CDs. If you follow the story line, it unfolds like some punk Harry Potter series; equally ambitious and didactic and almost as tightly written as the Moody Blues' "Days of Future Passed." You can also listen to each of the albums without a thought about the story and marvel at the musicianship, the intricately layered guitars, Claudio Sanchez's overwrought and rather pinched vocals and the sheer imagination displayed by these four musicians whose idiosyncratic emo seamlessly flows into prog rock. Epic, surreal, bigger than life, and utterly unlike anything you've heard in decades--even Geddy Lee expounding on free will. -- Jaan UhelszkiPop Music CDs
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