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It stands at one hour, fourteen minutes and seventeen
seconds of pure
orchestrated madness. Delirium Cordia, the most recent
release
from the noise/grind/free form/ avant guard group
Fantomas hits hard...
harder than a hammer to the head.
Mixing
chants, gibberish, sound effects, skat and noise this
record is
probably one of the most underrated albums of the
past year.
You listen to it and think hey I could do that,
thats not anything great
and then you find yourself in a garage with some of
your buddies
from high school and you turn out shit, unlike the
team of Patton,
Lombardo, Osborne, and Dunn who will and can collectively
blow your
ass six ways to sunday.
Now,
you can listen to this and think that it is improvisational
noise or
grind core but it isnt. Its just orchestrated
to make you think that.
The flow of the album seems to take you on one hell
of a mind bending
ride and has subtle hints of a theme, that being a
medical mishap.
There is also a unique quote on the back of the cd,
relating the
composer to a surgeon.
Complex,
hard to follow and even harder to understand Fantomas
has once again proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that
originality
still exists in music and that the modern composer
has much more to
work with than anyone could ever imagine. I have heard
rumors of
another release within the next year or so and I cant
wait to hear it
but for now this will have to do, now if I could only
get my ears to
stop bleeding.
Reviewed
by : Spencer |