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:: ::: TiTLE ....: Land Of The Lost ::: ::
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::: LABEL ....: Gift Of Life :::
::: GENRE ....: Punk :::
::: RDATE ....: 2012-08-12 :::
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::: QUALiTY ..: 255kbps/4410kHz :::
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`.::: SiZE .....: 62,06 MB :::.'
`:: PLAYTiME .: 33:52 min ::'
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URL ......: http://www.zenorecords.com
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::: 01. Just A Dream Away 3:16 :::
::: 02. Way Of Love 2:11 :::
::: 03. Let Me Know 3:03 :::
::: 04. Fair Weather Friends 3:16 :::
::: 05. Land Of The Lost 4:48 :::
::: 06. Nothing Left To Lose 4:51 :::
::: 07. The Search 4:16 :::
::: 08. Different Ways 4:32 :::
::: 09. Just Say 3:39 :::
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::: Land of the Lost marks the beginning of what I usually refer :::
::: to as the monochrome period in the Wipers' catalogue, a :::
::: string of albums that taught me diversity and colourfulness :::
::: are all too often considered (and expected) essential :::
::: ingredients for a successful album. It's not that the :::
::: Wiperss first three albums were all-over-the-place exercises :::
::: in diversity, but they all had their own, different feel and :::
::: featured songs that covered almost opposite parts of the :::
::: musical spectrum, ranging from short and raw punk bursts to :::
::: epics that showed Sage was one of the few musicians getting :::
::: away with extended solos in an age when that was not done :::
::: anymore. It took the Wipers (on this album: Sage, bassist :::
::: Brad Davidson and drummer Steve Plouf) three years to :::
::: release this album and even though that's quite long for an :::
::: album of a good half hour of plain guitar-rock, it also :::
::: shows they've mastered their "new" style perfectly. It still :::
::: sounds like the Wipers of before, but it's the first time :::
::: they released an album that almost seems like one extended :::
::: song. Some people would call it monotony, but if you can :::
::: maintain a certain mood and sound throughout an entire album :::
::: and make it an almost hypnotic experience instead of a drag, :::
::: you're onto something. On Land of the Lost, Sage & Co. sound :::
::: like Television, if that band had been more concise and :::
::: based in Arizona instead of New York. The mood's melancholic :::
::: and dark, yet never depressing, while the combination of :::
::: Sage's vocals, his gritty guitar style and the trance-like :::
::: grooves of Plouf and Davidson cause it to constantly contain :::
::: both beauty and force, soothing hypnosis and jarring :::
::: aggression. It's a peculiar combination and there are very :::
::: few bands capable of sustaining something like this for :::
::: longer than a few songs. :::
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::: It's music that's perfectly suited for long car trips, :::
::: repetitive yet never descending into blandness. It's almost :::
::: stunning how simple most of these songs seem - just a few :::
::: basic chord progressions, endlessly repeated riffs and :::
::: Sage's plaintive vocals on top of it. However, the guitar :::
::: sound - often a beefy, distorted guitar playing the riff, :::
::: with a clearer one adding accents on top of it - ensures :::
::: you'll soon be part of a trip. In "Just a Dream Away," for :::
::: instance, you will hardly notice the transitions from versus :::
::: to chorus and back anymore. It's all part of the same trip. :::
::: Some songs are faster and more aggressive ("Way of Love," :::
::: "Fair Weather Friends," which seems indebted to early Gun :::
::: Club), but even those continue the groove that's set by the :::
::: dominant, mid-paced tempos. While each song in itself shows :::
::: enough identity, the album as a whole meanders from riff to :::
::: riff, even though its second half offers more diverse :::
::: sounds, from the gentler dream-like playing of "Nothing Left :::
::: to Lose" and the nearly-whispered vocals of "Different :::
::: Ways," to the new wave melancholy of "Just Say," which :::
::: points forward to the culmination of this approach, Silver :::
::: Sail. This album remains a special listening experience and :::
::: album, one without obvious highlights towering above the :::
::: remaining tracks. Even though I've heard it dozens of times, :::
::: it still sounds as mysterious as the first time when I put :::
::: it on and if you'd play me just one song, I perhaps wouldn't :::
::: be able to tell you its location on the track list. It's not :::
::: the kind of album you'll advise anyone to check out, because :::
::: it's so hard to put your finger on what it is that makes :::
::: this album work, but once you've been turned onto Sage's :::
::: vision, Land of the Lost is bound to become a minor guitar :::
::: classic in your book as well (still a damn ugly cover, :::
::: though). :::
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::: LP is from 1986, This CD came out 1991 :::
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