Lisnaholic

Thanks for replying, Josef K.

TBH, I´ve calmed down from my initial infatuation with Black Emperor and now find some of their material a bit dull (to copy GreenSplendor´s judgement). I am especially disappointed with the Yanqui UXB album; it sounds as if they deliberately purged their material of all the things that made the earlier albums so good - the atmospheric violins, the sampled voices and the sinister poetry were all abandoned. Maybe they were trying to make some existential statement about artistic austerity, but imo they threw out the baby with the bathwater. It was those well-placed touches that gave their music its special atmosphere, and without those, Urban´s dismissal begins to ring true:-

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