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Trollheart · 10-01-2017, 02:18 PM

Album title: Return to the Sauce
Artist: Infected Mushroom
Genre: Electronic/Psy-Trance
Nationality: Israeli
Release date: January 27
Position in Discography: Eleventh
Fear Factor: High
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Have heard of it, but never to my knowledge heard one single psy-trance track
Average RYM Score: 3.24
Now there's a Power Metal album cover if ever I saw one!

The first (maybe the only) Israeli album released in January, and certainly the first released in 2017, this is going to be a whole new experience for me. To me, trance means loud, pumping beats and pounding piano keyboards that can probably really only be appreciated if you're either high or dancing at a club, and probably preferably both. Since I am neither, and never likely to be, what will this music say, if anything, to me? Let's find out. Interesting. More heavy and guitar-oriented than I had expected. Don't imagine this playing at any club. Not really sure what to make of this. Kind of electronic psychedelic music? Okay, track two has more the kind of sound I expected from anything with “trance” in its name, but also rather cleverly I feel keeps a sort of Middle Eastern melody running through it. Not bad. I don't hate this. It's all instrumental – apart from a few speech samples inserted here and there - so not that easy to really have too much to say about it

Pretty odd. After an interesting opening it morphed into something I could definitely see people dancing to, but not necessarily something I would return to for listening pleasure. Then we got to the ten-minute number, “Milosh”, and it kind of metamorphosed into a space/prog rock sort of thing before warping back into the trance vein most of the album had taken up to then. Not quite sure what to make of this. Yeah, I guess it was fun but I can't see any reason I'd be coming back to listen to it again. If I was out of my head at some club dancing, yeah, I could see how this would be irresistible, but since I'm not likely to ever find myself in that position, this is an interesting experiment but not one I'd be particularly eager to repeat.

Oh holy good ****! The final track is FORTY-EIGHT minutes long. As the pope once said, **** that!

Check out more from this artist? Unlikely
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Probably not

Expectation Index: 6

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Album title: Return to the Sauce Artist: Infected Mushroom Genre: Electronic/Psy-Trance Nationality: Israeli Release date: January 27 Position in Discography: Eleventh Fear Factor: High Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Have heard of it, but never to my knowledge heard one single psy-trance track Average RYM Score: 3.24 Now there's a Power Metal album cover if ever I saw one! The first (maybe the only) Israeli album released in January, and certainly the first released in 2017, this is going to be a whole new experience for me. To me, trance means loud, pumping beats and pounding piano keyboards that can probably really only be appreciated if you're either high or dancing at a club, and probably preferably both. Since I am neither, and never likely to be, what will this music say, if anything, to me? Let's find out. Interesting. More heavy and guitar-oriented than I had expected. Don't imagine this playing at any club. Not really sure what to make of this. Kind of electronic psychedelic music? Okay, track two has more the kind of sound I expected from anything with “trance” in its name, but also rather cleverly I feel keeps a sort of Middle Eastern melody running through it. Not bad. I don't hate this. It's all instrumental – apart from a few speech samples inserted here and there - so not that easy to really have too much to say about it Pretty odd. After an interesting opening it morphed into something I could definitely see people dancing to, but not necessarily something I would return to for listening pleasure. Then we got to the ten-minute number, “Milosh”, and it kind of metamorphosed into a space/prog rock sort of thing before warping back into the trance vein most of the album had taken up to then. Not quite sure what to make of this. Yeah, I guess it was fun but I can't see any reason I'd be coming back to listen to it again. If I was out of my head at some club dancing, yeah, I could see how this would be irresistible, but since I'm not likely to ever find myself in that position, this is an interesting experiment but not one I'd be particularly eager to repeat. Oh holy good **! The final track is FORTY-EIGHT minutes long. As the pope once said, that! Check out more from this artist? Unlikely Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Probably not Expectation Index: 6** __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018