- Audio CD (Sep 2 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: North East Indie
- ASIN: B0000BV1DR
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Mind Expansions of the New Kind (3.5/5),
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This review is from: Chaiming The Knoblessone (Audio CD)
Pigeonholing a band like Cerberus Shoal is like running with one leg. The unfortunate thing about this is that the leg you're trying to run on also has a broken ankle. That broken ankle is attached to a foot that only has two toes, and even they have horrible blisters all over them. The bottom line here is that there's no easy way to describe the sounds and imagery of what you'll ingest when you dig in to a Cerberus Shoal album. My experience with this album, and a few of the band's previous albums, tells me that this goes for pretty much every album this Portland (Maine) ensemble has ever released. Chaiming the Knoblessone is no different from the others; except for the fact that it's even more experimental. It only took about three minutes in to "Apatrides" to become aware of the fact that I was in for a strenuous assignment trying to write an accurate review of the entire album. The scary thing is that I was only three minutes into the album when I came to this conclusion. All that aside, there are some truly fantastic moments in this overly-dense experimental album. Most of Chaiming the Knoblessone is layered with hundreds of sporadic sounds that make it hard to focus on any particular moment. However, a song like "Sole of Foot of Man" is thirteen minutes of relaxing improvisation that contains pockets of sheer beauty and spaciousness. The suitably titled "A Paranoid Home Companion" is a dark sounding mish-mash of THX1138-like robotic voices, rhythmic drones, and discordant electronics. I guarantee you haven't heard a song this bizarre before. In addition to the instrumentation, there are at least ten different voices that create the illusion that there is something more to a Cerberus Shoal experience than just the music. I imagine there is some type of visual performance that goes along with this music, as it's one of the most visually demanding albums I've heard in quite some time. If you're into music that is experimental, Cerberus Shoal is a band you must hear. My hunch is that they will soon lead the new genre of musicians in this "psych-rock/folk" genre in the next couple of years. I hope you're ears are more prepared than mine are.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Cure For Madness,
By Cube of Orange (Portland,Earth.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chaiming The Knoblessone (Audio CD)
Chaiming the Knoblessone is a cure for "Repetition Madness": the type of madness one catches from repetitious, wage-slave work and soul sucking daily routine. Stuck? Sufforcating? Overwrought by dead-weight relationships and redundant, spent, ideals?Mad at your radiator in winter? You won't be after listening AND listening again to this captivating,dream stirring work. Creative. Enlightened. Dark. Smart. Fun. Peppery. Primal... Freedom bellows! I give it twenty-two stars, plus one all purpose one for genuine moxie, vision and soul.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Mind Expansions of the New Kind (3.5/5),
By M. Starr "Amneziak" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chaiming The Knoblessone (Audio CD)
Pigeonholing a band like Cerberus Shoal is like running with one leg. The unfortunate thing about this is that the leg you're trying to run on also has a broken ankle. That broken ankle is attached to a foot that only has two toes, and even they have horrible blisters all over them. The bottom line here is that there's no easy way to describe the sounds and imagery of what you'll ingest when you dig in to a Cerberus Shoal album. My experience with this album, and a few of the band's previous albums, tells me that this goes for pretty much every album this Portland (Maine) ensemble has ever released. Chaiming the Knoblessone is no different from the others; except for the fact that it's even more experimental. It only took about three minutes in to "Apatrides" to become aware of the fact that I was in for a strenuous assignment trying to write an accurate review of the entire album. The scary thing is that I was only three minutes into the album when I came to this conclusion. All that aside, there are some truly fantastic moments in this overly-dense experimental album. Most of Chaiming the Knoblessone is layered with hundreds of sporadic sounds that make it hard to focus on any particular moment. However, a song like "Sole of Foot of Man" is thirteen minutes of relaxing improvisation that contains pockets of sheer beauty and spaciousness. The suitably titled "A Paranoid Home Companion" is a dark sounding mish-mash of THX1138-like robotic voices, rhythmic drones, and discordant electronics. I guarantee you haven't heard a song this bizarre before. In addition to the instrumentation, there are at least ten different voices that create the illusion that there is something more to a Cerberus Shoal experience than just the music. I imagine there is some type of visual performance that goes along with this music, as it's one of the most visually demanding albums I've heard in quite some time. If you're into music that is experimental, Cerberus Shoal is a band you must hear. My hunch is that they will soon lead the new genre of musicians in this "psych-rock/folk" genre in the next couple of years. I hope you're ears are more prepared than mine are. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Are you a Zek?,
By soundsmith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chaiming The Knoblessone (Audio CD)
I had the opportunity to see CS play last year at a club in Ballard (that's Ballard, not Seattle) with the Sun City Girls. I have been a big fan of SSG since I was in high school in Phoenix (ya they're not from Seattle but PHX straight from JFA-you can't get that kind of intensity growing up in Seattle). I have seen them play stage performance, rantings, straight three piece and other setups. Anyway, to see them after having my mind completely blown by CS well...ya they were great but Shoal took the show! Right away I bought some cd's at the show and then some more releases later. Then i met their engineer, actually he was my teacher while he was working with Animal Collective and Degenerate Art Ensemble. He recommended this one. This guy knows sound! One of the coolest things I've ever heard was his victrola (if you dont know how one works well no time to explain). That said, about this record, well shiet i dont know what to say. It's out there. Try it or the Sun City Girls will put a curse on you like they did me!
2.0 out of 5 stars
different and cool but not my kind of music,
By Rodolfo Cruz "Rudy's Reviews" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chaiming The Knoblessone (Audio CD)
after hearing homb i really liked it. well not the last 20min song. only the eirie mood setting 1st track and omphalos.i think i listened to crash my moon yacht one time and wasnt my thing. i tried this one and its just too wierd for me. i found traces of sigur ros like girls singing but theres no structure (verse chorus verse) to the songs. the guy that sings cant sing too good either. just yelling stuff out. the intermission track was interesting. well its a story of a judge and a chipmunk? well, you gotta hear it to understand. hehe. this is not something i would listen to over and over. |
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