Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times (Dig)
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Artist: Sleepytime Gorilla MuseumEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-29
Music Label: The End Records
Soundtracks:
- The Companions
- Helpless Corpses Enactment
- Puppet Show
- Formicary
- Angle of Repose
- Ossuary
- The Salt Crown
- The Only Dance
- The Greenless Wreath
- The Widening Eye
- The Putrid Refrain
Free Music Notes for In Glorious Times (Dig)
Free Music Review: I should have bought the album instead of the shirt....
Hit: 5 Stars
I recently saw SGM perform these collection of freakishly exhilarating pieces of music. This is a band that is not only musically talented, but also conveys a convincing, creative, and pervasive persona. Carla Kihlstedt, Dan Rathbun, Nils Frykdahl, Matthias Bossi, and Michael Mellender all marched to their stage through the audience, playing a cheery yet equally eerie ballad on trumpets and other hand held instruments. All of them are dressed in homemade cloths, covered in white makeup, and with the exception of Carla, have various sections of their head shaved, braided, and growing long.
Many of the instruments are homemade, which are comprised of various pieces of metal, wood, and perhaps a trash can. I believe there is glockenspiel as well. There are your standard guitars, a violin, a bass; and then oddities, like the slide-piano log, pedal-action wiggler, and other strange and primitive instruments.
Their lyrics on this album, like their others, tend to be abstract and many of the members will deliver very odd and perhaps even disturbing non-sequiter soliloquies as their other instruments lay silent. The lyrical content often explores the dark and complex corners of the human psyche, or the "things that we bury," in the words of Carla.
Unlike their previous album, "In Glorious Times" seems employ, but not depend upon, heavy and distorted guitar riffs more often; which, obviously lends to a "metal" sound. But the textures, timbres, and dynamics of the multiple instruments and vocals they employ add a considerable layer of complexity, darkness, and beauty to this album.
The structure, melody, and meter of the songs within this album are far too complicated for me to understand let alone enumerate. But I can say they contribute to their overall sound greatly. Anyone with a deeper understanding of music theory will probably find something about their techniques to appreciate.
The only problem I have with this album, and SGM in general, is the feeling of being overwhelmed with the sheer complexity and weirdness of their music. SMG is not easy and relaxing music. But that is the price to be paid for such unique and odd music. This album will provide the brain with something highly desirable when listening to music: creativity and originality. But in my opinion it will not provide the brain with something that is also desirable when listening to music: predictability, easy listening, and relaxation.
I highly recommend this album, especially if you need to add something dark and flavorful to your music collection. Thanks for reading.
In Glorious Times (Dig) Poster
Rock-against-Rock pioneers Sleepytime Gorilla Museum celebrate the extremes of sonic debilitation, with this muffled cry into the dark night of the soul. Triumphantly smothered within the intricate stylings of musical evolution, the expansive world of literature and the pain and passion of one's emotions, the Oakland, California-based band have once again imbedded themselves deep in the creative process, allowing themselves to reach new plateaus on their latest album `In Glorious Times.' The band - known for their expressive and wildly entertaining theatrical live shows - gives justice to their eclectic music in the live forum and plan to stay on the road for the most of 2007.Pop Music CDs
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