TechnicLePanther

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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Anteater

Goldmund - Famous Places

Rock solid minimalist ambient. The kind of thing that would have been a bestseller on Windham Hill's catalog back in the late 80's / early 90's. It lacks the evocative power of, say, the stuff Harold Budd used to do...but that's just me being nitpicky.

I've got a shortlist of ambient that sits at the top of my queue at any given time, but not sure if this is quite up there. I'll explore more of this dude's output and his other projects though, since I did enjoy Famous Places overall.

7 out of 10

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