Neapolitan

Trigger warning: This is a totally not a positive review. So let me start from when the album was released. Except for a few rare exceptions I really don't like albums from 1974 to 1976, and it just so happens that this album is recorded between those years. This album is only reinforcing an opinion I hold even before I attempt to listen to it. Even though I am a fan of the 70s I don't consider every single piece of music from the 70s worthwhile. If this is an example of what music was like in 1976 no wonder that Disco and Punk took over.

Somewhere I saw it said they were discribed as "Avant-garde Pop" another place I saw them "Instrumental Folk." This is too far removed from "Folk" for me to consider it as such. Other than using a fiddle which is one of the go-to instruments in Folk, there is very tenuous connection to the genre. OK I see them calling this "Avant-garde Pop" but being both is part of its demise.

I really didn't like this album from the start. I guess felt trolled by this album. I was set up to like it only to get put off by annoying part of it. Another thing is that the instruments didn't match or something with the mix that didn't gel right. The music at best sounded like a incoherent mess. It is like they are stealing ideas from The Beatles or emulating some Pop band and then riffing off of them for a while then go into a Avant-garde mode for a while. There's always a music idea developing but it going nowhere. It does this over and over again. There's somewhat of a hook, it repeats and builds then it falls apart it becomes either whimsical or inane. That becomes annoying after a while. There is some nice stuff on it where I could love the album if wasn't for all the BS every other minute. However that makes it very consistent throughout, the way music vacillates between mushy melodies and random wankery. And if anything positive can be said about the album it'd be that it is consistent.

When I got to the song "The sound of someone you love who's going away and it doesn't matter" I was so conditioned of them tanking a music idea, I couldn't get into the song even though it started out very sentimental and something I would like. However I was anticipating some kind of nonsensical avant-garde experimentation to happen next. Don't get me wrong, I can love some Advant-garde stuff, and I don't mind Pop sensibilities. But the way they handle I couldn't get into it. Yes it happened it after it ventured into a musical area I couldn't care less for.

I didn't care for the album. Unless I am curious why I didn't like it and try to see if my opinions still hold, I probably won't return to this mess.
2/10

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