Robin Guthrie - Continental
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Artist: Robin GuthrieEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-16
Music Label: Darla
Soundtracks:
- Continental
- Conquering the Romantic
- Crescent
- Monument
- Amphora
- The Day Star
- Radiance
- As I Breathe
- Last Exit
- Pale
Free Music Notes for Continental
Free Music Review: Great album
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great instrumental album by a great artist. Opening track "Continental" is a perfect introduction to what follows, building gradually into something very emotional. "Conquering the Romantic" brings back that good old Cocteau-style landscape sound. "Crescent" starts delicately and, as the title implies, becomes louder later on - I have to say I have mixed feelings about the finale, though. "Monument" is probably the best track of the album and one of the best songs ever IMHO. "Amphora" is a downbeat tune in which the best element is the guitar that comes in at the end. "The Day Star", similarly to "Crescent", builds into a louder sound - again, mixed feelings. It does provide an energy to the album, but it kinda breaks its otherwise linear soothing ambiance. "Radiance" is maybe my second favorite: beautiful intertwining guitar and bass arrangements. "As I Breathe" is another song featuring calmer and louder bits, but this time I think this device works better, perhaps because it comes and goes (some moments in this song remind me of "Four Calendar Café"-era Cocteau). "Last Exit" is nice: I see it as kind of a sister-song to "Amphora". The final track, "Pale", starts with eerie sounds and slowly brings more familiar sounds to Cocteau-trained ears, until becoming complex, a little Cure-like music (there is something here that reminds me of that Judge Dredd "Burn" song). All in all, this album has become my "residual" CD for more than three months now. Robin Guthrie is one of the few artists nowadays whose work I feel confident to purchase without hesitation.
Continental Poster
As COCTEAU TWINS guitarist and producer, Robin Guthrie is the man responsible for creating that famous sound and opening the door for My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, et al. Darla Records is very proud to offer Robin Guthrie's second instrumental album Continental. Dare I say... continental is Robin's strongest all-instrumental bliss out, or make out, record since Cocteau Twins. Robin gives more heart and soul on Continental than on his previous instrumental release Imperial. Continental is more focused, stronger in feeling, and in composition. Of course all of Robin's signature elements are here: Shimmering guitars, ethereal moods as fluid and deep as any of Eno's, and yes, he does at times thankfully bring the rock. The mood overall is classic Robin Guthrie. Fans of the Cocteau Twins and all they've spawned, please welcome back your daddy. This is the first of four new Robin Guthrie records for Darla. Robin's music is a treasure. He's one of the great all-time heroes of the current bliss pop generation, which includes Mahogany, Auburn Lull, Ulrich Schnauss, Manual, Sweet Trip, Windy & Carl, Landing, Aarktica, Yellow6, and many, many others.Robin Guthrie is the Jimi Hendrix of dream guitar. His work with the Cocteau Twins in the 1980s sent scores of guitarists to the music store, buying up delays, reverbs, and looping units to generate clouds of shimmering guitar. The Twins haven't been around for a while, but Guthrie has only recently started to emerge as a solo artist. Continental is a follow-up to 2003's all-instrumental Imperial. Like on that album, the mood here is thick and heavy, though the energy is more robust, especially on the title track and "Monument," as Guthrie builds layered crescendos and siren guitar lines over relentless drums. These more dynamic tracks alternate with dreamscapes of slow, arpeggiated chords refracted through prisms of reverb and delay. It's a mesmerizing cochlear spiral that insinuates itself gracefully, filling the room with a twinkling cascade of sound. There are times you might wish for the intoxicating voice of the Cocteaus' Elizabeth Fraser. In fact, it sometimes seems like it's missing. But there are also times that the underlying sound is revealed to be every bit as powerful. --John Diliberto
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