Hey... a reviewer friend just played me a quick snippet of each album
track down the phone. Hard to make out the full picture of course, but
from what I heard, I thought it sounded great! However, it is very
definitely a conceptual album, with much of it playing as one
continuous piece, so in some ways there were no big surprises I'm
afraid. It's much more minimal and open sounding than, say, Version 2
used for the single. There were lots of little melodic motifs though no
full blown songs as such, apart from the reworking of the original TDF
which did indeed sound like the live version.
I'd say the best point of reference for the album as a whole would be
the more minimal parts of Versions 1 and 3. In terms of sounds, there
was a strong sonic link between all the tracks, adding to a continuity
of mood, though I must say that some of the new pieces sounded more
interesting and a bit more out there than those single tracks. However,
there were NO new tracks with any full lyrics, just the odd
vocoder/robovox part intoning the title - I guess this is certainly
not a collection of new KW "songs"! I can also confirm that NONE of
newer tracks played live (Tribal, Tango etc) are on the CD. Wait for
the next album for those! :-)
Hard to judge on such a compromised listen, but if I had to pick a
standout it would be "Elektro Kardiogramm"... with sinister computer
vox intoning the title over a very LFO/Warp beat.
Staggboy
