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Legendary Pink Dots
Poppy Variations
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.date Jun-26-2004
.style Psychedelic Rock
.label Terminal Kaleidoscope
.cat.no. TEKA15
.source CDDA
.type Album
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 90,6 MB
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Line Up:
EKS - voice/keys/sounds
Silverman - keys
Niels van Hoorn - saxamaphone, flute
Erik Drost - guitars
Raymond Steeg - sound wizardry
shouts to FWYH for waking my lazy ass up with their release of The
Whispering Wall.
All new studio album released May 18, 2004. This is a Terminal
Kaleidoscope release licensed to Beta-lactam Ring Records for the
Americas. Full color 4 panel digipack release. A double LP version will
occur late Summer 2004 with a bonus 4th side and remixed tracks.
The Poppy Variations is the ill-natured twin of The Whispering Wall ù
the qlippothic, mirror-universe reflection, residing in the shadowy
nightside of Eden. Where Whispering is right in line with LPD's current
manifestation and evolution, Poppy is entirely regressive and even
transgressive. Where Whispering is often joyful and musically rich,
Poppy is spare, prickly and pessimistic. Rather than a series of
inviting, accessible compositions, LPD creates a series of perverse
spectral enigmas, even utilizing samples and reworkings of their older
material, in some attempt at painstaking self-reflection and exegesis.
Edward Ka-Spel's lyrics aren't as bemused and detached as usual here,
instead, on many of the tracks, he sounds downright miserable,
displaying the kind of perplexed mental fragmentation familiar from
early Dots material like Asylum. Long sections of near-silence and
passages exhibiting the kind of wildly unorthodox experimentation not
heard since the Steven Stapleton-produced Malachai: Shadow Weaver part 2
make this album one of LPD's most difficult propositions in recent
memory. It's a schizophrenic experience attempting to place this album
in context with The Whispering Wall; best, then, to evaluate it on its
own merits. Which are many, especially for diehard fans of early Dots
(read: freaks of nature) - the jagged, minimal electronics and Ka-Spel's
piercing graveyard whine, staccato drum machine rhythms, bizarre
samples, loops and low-budget psychedelic touches that contribute to an
air of drugged-out bedroom insanity. The hazy, summer buzz of "Krussoe"
shifts and festers in the background, as Ka-Spel mutters: "All I have is
sand, a withered hand, a pile of cans, they're rusting." More nautical
metaphors (see Ka-Spel's Pieces of 8), this time the bedraggled literary
castaway wishing for a ship to come and take him away from his tropical
hell. Even the song names on The Poppy Variations seem to echo the
album's dire outlook: "Personal Monster" and "It Doesn't Matter Anway,"
a pair of songs that echo early Dots melodies, minimal treatments,
up-close vocals explicating the most dreadful futuristic angst.
"L'oiseau Rare (Pt. 1 & 2)" begins with wacky jungle-drums and bouncing
vocals familiar from "Crumbs on the Carpet," but it quickly segues into
a lengthy excursion through enigmatic unfoldings of ambient meandering,
lost in a vast interplanetary garbage scow at night. It's as
frightening, haunted and lonely as The Tower or parts of Crushed Velvet
Apocalypse. An Orson Welles-ish radio drama voice slips out of the
aethyr on "The Hot Breath on Your Neck," creepily intoning:
"It...is...later...than...you...think....," to which a resigned Ka-Spel
replies: "I know, you don't have to rub it in, do you?" Ouch. Things end
on a note of spectacularly epic melancholy, with the two-part, 25-minute
picaresque musical patchwork of the title track, which uses the classic
track "Poppy Day" as a jumping off point for a lengthy meditation on
depression and addiction. I've never felt so far away listening to music
on my headphones, the track traveling through mental corridors,
collecting faded memories and obsessed spirits, ultimately exploding
into a massive and sinister soundscape of disembodied voices,
radioactive swipes of brain-frying sound, cold metallic insectoid
textures and distant, reverberating funereal choruses of bagpipes. In
its own twisted, cadaverous way, The Poppy Variations is an even finer
accomplishment than The Whispering Wall, a spooked missive from deep in
the heart of the abyss. - Jonathan Dean@brainwashed.com
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01 krussoe 04:40
02 personal monster 03:38
03 it doesn┤t matter anyway 04:26
04 the equaliser 05:36
05 l┤oiseau rare (pt. 1 & 2) 09:28
06 the hot breath on your neck 06:24
07 the poppy variations (pt. 1) 13:59
08 the poppy variations (pt. 2) 12:13
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60:24 min
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