The Album Club: "Famous Places" by Goldmund

TechnicLePanther · 07-29-2017, 08:43 AM

Goldmund - Famous Places

Boring, bland, background music. It seems like not much thought was put into each of these songs. They're full of cliches and repetition, both of which are horrible given the album is already extremely minimal. There are a couple great tracks; the ones that have a bit more going on as well as some interesting chord progressions, notably "Havelock".

That's really the main problem with this (and really any ambient album). A track is either great or it doesn't work at all. And this album just happens to have mainly tracks that don't work at all. It's not annoyingly bad, but it's certainly not good. 4/10

On my list of "favorite" to least favorite albums:

Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Goldmund - Famous Places
KISS - Destroyer

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Loved it	2	20.00%
Liked it	2	20.00%
Meh	4	40.00%
Disliked it	1	10.00%
Hated it	1	10.00%
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07-29-2017, 08:43 AM	#31 (permalink)
TechnicLePanther and the livin' is easy... Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: New York Posts: 1,997	Goldmund - Famous Places Boring, bland, background music. It seems like not much thought was put into each of these songs. They're full of cliches and repetition, both of which are horrible given the album is already extremely minimal. There are a couple great tracks; the ones that have a bit more going on as well as some interesting chord progressions, notably "Havelock". That's really the main problem with this (and really any ambient album). A track is either great or it doesn't work at all. And this album just happens to have mainly tracks that don't work at all. It's not annoyingly bad, but it's certainly not good. 4/10 On my list of "favorite" to least favorite albums: Radiohead - Pablo Honey Goldmund - Famous Places KISS - Destroyer __________________ Many have tried to destroy it... but... true evil never dies. It is only... REBORN *SUGGEST ME AN ALBUM* - I'm probably not going to listen to it but I will if you bother me enough.