VAST - Music for People
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Artist: VASTEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- The Last One Alive/Angelite
- Free/Zulu
- I Don't Have Anything
- The Gates of Rock 'N' Roll
- What Else Do I Need/Epithalamica Excerpts
- Blue
- Land of Shame
- A Better Place
- Song Without a Name/Virgines Caste Excerpts
- We Will Meet Again
- My TV and You
- Lady of Dreams
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Free Music Review: Music for People Like Me
Hit: 5 Stars
Many people prefer VAST's debut album to Music for People, but I personally found a much more profound connection to this album than the last. I found it to be more fluid and extremely emotional. It never let me down for a moment. Once again, Crosby's voice carries a longing, lost-within-a-maze feeling, and the intrumental-orchestral mix is solid and never disjointed. His feelings of desperation are put out more subtly but just as powerfully as in the first album.
"Blue" is the most amazing track on here: alongside the lyrics "Let's go down in the ship, let's slip into oblivion," the strings do in fact make you feel as if you're slipping into an ocean oblivion. I get a lump in my throat every time I listen to "We Will Meet Again," a sensual song about loss and the will to find reconnection accompanied by airy, trance-like strings. "Land of Shame" has lovely bluesy/swing sound with evocative lyrics. "Lady of Dreams," the final track, takes me to an old-fashioned place where a wrinkled man throws back whisky, dreaming of slow waltzes with a woman he once knew while the world whirls past him.
I haven't heard any releases in the decade surrounding this album that sounded anything like it, which is a relief among the masses of popular music that emerged at the time; bad nu-metal, bleeding-heart rock, lollipop rock. It easily falls into one of my top 10 albums.
Music for People Poster
With his 1998 debut, Visual Audio Sensory Theater, Vast's Jon Crosby unveiled his dark musical vision and gave an insight to a childhood spent learning classical music, listening to U2 and the Cure, and watching MTV. On Vast's follow-up, Crosby's adds to his debut's components a masterful understanding of how to use his gifts. For the majority of Music for People, he delicately balances morbid melodies with tender orchestration. Trombone and ethereal strings lift the downtrodden "Blue," while joyous, overblown hooks elevate the sinister "The Last One Alive." Crosby's balancing act accentuates his love for pure rock drama. Unfortunately, this passion can also be his undoing; his operatic barking on "Song Without a Name" is too grandiose to be taken seriously. In the main, though, Crosby's smoldering vocals, cryptic words, classical leanings, and twisted blend of rock and electronica posit Vast as U2's heavy-rock cousins. --Dan GennoeAlternative Rock Music CDs
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