Music Banter - View Single Post - Skeleton Crew - Learn To Talk/Country of Blinds (1990) [SAA Album Club discussion]

clutnuckle · 03-21-2011, 01:33 PM

I'm mildly familiar with Fred Firth and have enjoyed some of the other stuff he's been involved with (Maybe Monday springs to mind), but this lacks any of the elegance I found in bands like Henry Cow that actually made me feel engaged in their music. I really like the instrumentation, and they're all over the place with it musically, but it stands still in terms of dynamics. Really didn't feel much differentiation. Though I doubt hearing this album has soured my future of exploring more of Firth's work, and I don't feel like I walked away completely empty-handed.

03-21-2011, 01:33 PM	#3 (permalink)
clutnuckle Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: -_-_-_-_~__~-~_-`_`-~_-`-~-~ Posts: 1,276	I'm mildly familiar with Fred Firth and have enjoyed some of the other stuff he's been involved with (Maybe Monday springs to mind), but this lacks any of the elegance I found in bands like Henry Cow that actually made me feel engaged in their music. I really like the instrumentation, and they're all over the place with it musically, but it stands still in terms of dynamics. Really didn't feel much differentiation. Though I doubt hearing this album has soured my future of exploring more of Firth's work, and I don't feel like I walked away completely empty-handed.