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Ok, I am sure the entire community has changed since I was an active member of these boards, during the lull in dredg-stuff after CWA my life kind of became one big lump of chaos and I lost alot of interest in art, music, and entertainment because of my personal time constraints.
Its funny that a band I was in love with during the early part of my college days (when El Cielo came out) releases an album the same month I finish my thesis and the world of academia seems to be lifted off my shoulders.
Well, I don't want to press on about what I am sure most of you don't care about and wanted to post here that I really felt this album was amazing... I mean truly amazing. I haven't been emotionally moved by a piece of music like this in probably 5 or 6 years. It reminds me alot of how I felt the first time I listened to The Fragile by NIN, Evil Empire by RATM, Wish you were here by Pink Floyd, Lateralus by Tool, or De-Loused by Mars Volta... heck it reminds me alot of how I felt when I first heard El Cielo. Its a very hard feeling to describe, its a surreal connection, almost as if your heart, your being is a collection of strings vibrating in disarray and the energy of the music pulsates with them in a very specific way to really bend and play with how your emotions carry you so that every thread works together, as if the music really plays to you.
The whole concept of the album fits phenomenally with the musical composition and the album feels like a complete thought, like each song is made better by the tracks around it and the album as a whole is better than the sum of its parts... While some people may disagree with me, I compare it to the albums above where I feel like it really isn't "single-driven." The album as a whole resonates to portray a very powerful picture with a very powerful message and each color or each word is made better by the structure around it. That power really hit me this afternoon when the album came to a close and all I wanted to do was listen to it again.
I just almost needed to vent my feelings somewhere that this type of music is appreciated because honestly the way this album hit me personally is beyond words. Regardless of whether or not I may agree with some of the philosophical points made here, I must say I am speechless about the way it was presented.
Its funny that a band I was in love with during the early part of my college days (when El Cielo came out) releases an album the same month I finish my thesis and the world of academia seems to be lifted off my shoulders.
Well, I don't want to press on about what I am sure most of you don't care about and wanted to post here that I really felt this album was amazing... I mean truly amazing. I haven't been emotionally moved by a piece of music like this in probably 5 or 6 years. It reminds me alot of how I felt the first time I listened to The Fragile by NIN, Evil Empire by RATM, Wish you were here by Pink Floyd, Lateralus by Tool, or De-Loused by Mars Volta... heck it reminds me alot of how I felt when I first heard El Cielo. Its a very hard feeling to describe, its a surreal connection, almost as if your heart, your being is a collection of strings vibrating in disarray and the energy of the music pulsates with them in a very specific way to really bend and play with how your emotions carry you so that every thread works together, as if the music really plays to you.
The whole concept of the album fits phenomenally with the musical composition and the album feels like a complete thought, like each song is made better by the tracks around it and the album as a whole is better than the sum of its parts... While some people may disagree with me, I compare it to the albums above where I feel like it really isn't "single-driven." The album as a whole resonates to portray a very powerful picture with a very powerful message and each color or each word is made better by the structure around it. That power really hit me this afternoon when the album came to a close and all I wanted to do was listen to it again.
I just almost needed to vent my feelings somewhere that this type of music is appreciated because honestly the way this album hit me personally is beyond words. Regardless of whether or not I may agree with some of the philosophical points made here, I must say I am speechless about the way it was presented.
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