5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A MUST HAVE album..., Mar 2 2011
By John "John" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Into the great wide yonder (Audio CD)
Simple Review: Dark, beautiful, rich and complex. Another beautifully imagined album from the artist known as Trentemøller. The only way to listen to this album for the first time is to sit back, relax and listen to it from beginning to end. A must have album for already existing fans, a must have for fans of new.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dick Dale, David Lynch, and Trent Reznor..., Aug 13 2010
By jorio - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Into the great wide yonder (Audio CD)
are the three touchstone that keep coming to mind while listening to Into the Great Wide Yonder. This is a completely different direction from the icy minimalism of Last Resort. The aggro-tempos, distorted surf guitar, and sheer darkness of the record suggest an industrial-goth club, and the winter ambience and beautiful little melodies of pieces like Moan are completely absent. The one moment of hesitance in the first eight tracks is the haunting, heartbreaking Sycamore Feeling. Otherwise, we're thrown into a hellish, driving, menacing soundscape with no room to breathe until the final two pieces, Neverglade and Tide, which still lack the sparseness of his earlier work. This is an artistic, interesting album, no doubt, and will have its fans, but lovers of the Last Resort should take warning: this will be an utterly foreign world.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sonic exploration of wildness using tight orchestration, April 22 2012
By Dan Bergevin - Published on Amazon.com
Guess who I am: "waaah, I wish this sounded like his previous album! Boo hoo!" Yep, that's the worst any of these negative reviewers can manage to say about it. And praise the gods, they are so right - it is new, fresh, unique, and fantasic. Here is a refreshing departure from Trentemoller's previous works, which both sounds like a continuation of them AND a departure into new aural realms. It's extremely elaborate mood music in a jugular vein (sorry Hitchcock, I've been waiting to use that for a while now).
I absolutely cannot hear what comes next, and I kick myself every time I hear it, because these cats came to my town and I missed it. I'll certainly never make that mistake again.
A must own for sure, but have a box of tissues handy in case you want to cry about how an innovative musician failed to ask for your permission to take a brilliant creative turn and produce his greatest masterpiece to date.