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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: The Legendary Pink Dots
Title......: The Gethsemane Option
Rip Date...: Aug-2013 Cat.No.....: met 872
Style......: Psychedelic Rockabel......: Metropolis
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 95,7 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
To become a Pink Dots fan is to enter into a compact with a very
particular sort of friend, a cynical, visionary character with
whom one gets into the most ridiculous yet affecting spells of
raconteurship at the mutual local. To become a Pink Dots collector
is, as OxbridgeÆs finest best said, something completely
different. Tracing the itineraries of Edward, The Silverman,
Martijn De Kleer, Niels Van Hoorn, Ryan Moore, and their fellow
trippers back through the annals of time is akin to taking Jorge
Luis BorgeÆs guided audio tour of the Winchester Mystery House:
schedules and topographies are mapped by folks operating on an
entirely different plane of existence than us plebs, with jam
sessions, solo/side efforts, archival releases, and serialized
works (the now-ancient Alchemical Playschool series) all
punctuating ôproperö LPs. If IÆm tracing the labyrinthine pathways
of the LPD discography properly, The Gethsemane Option is indeed
the first proper LP the Dots have put out since 2010?s Seconds
Late For The Brighton Line, and the gap of two full calendar years
between albums is indeed a singular lacuna in their oeuvre. While
Brighton was the best work theyÆd done in several years, it felt
marked by the sudden absence of Martijn and Niels. Gethsemane
displays a resolute and steely confidence which I donÆt think
weÆve heard from the Dots in well over a decade: now consisting of
the core songwriting duo of Edward Ka-Spel and The Silverman,
these two seasoned voyagers offer a cool and unblinking ascension
into pure astral space.
Consisting of seven lengthy, and surprisingly percussion-forward
tracks, Gethsemane brings, if not outright aggression, a steely
resoluteness and propulsion which is a world apart from the
pillowy loveliness of mid period Dots fare. ôA Star Is Bornöæs ice
cold strings and tinkles, matched with minimal and scrapy drum
programming, acts as the entrez nous to a very severe iteration of
the DotsÆ aesthetic. ôSuch a cruel, cruel world,ö Edward intones
amidst itemizations of isolation and disaffection. That trackÆs
uncaring beat almost continues unchanged into ôThe Garden of
Ealing,ö a more earthy but no more yielding cut. There are minimal
core structures, mostly composed of drums, EdwardÆs vocals, and
shimmering pads, with the odd clang or bleep in the side of the
headphones connoting space debris as you drift further away from
the warmth of atmosphere and into an uncaring vacuum. Whether the
ôoptionö the Dots offer in the Biblical garden of Gethsemane is
voluntary martyrdom or heinous but necessary betrayal is up for
grabs, but the cool, metallic bounce of ôA Stretch In Timeö (with
Edward caustically chiding ôyou always leave the gas onö) hints at
the latter.
Things are temporarily brightened by the simply gorgeous ôEsher
Everywhereö, connoting ôThe Love Theme from Mystery Science
Theatre 3000? as much as The CureÆs ôPlainsongö. Edward lets his
now-trademark cynicism slip for a few minutes, with slow, winding
drums carrying his voice up and out in an ode to reconciliation
and possibility. Light guitars appear for the first time, and
everything rises and converges in a blur of soupy samples and pure
Silverman prog jam. The completely sparse and meditative
ôPendulumö is a breathtaking aperitif, free of pessimism or
expectation.
IÆm tempted to make some comment about the significance of the
DotsÆ first record for Metropolis (technically not their first NA
release, but certainly the most high profile) being such a dark
turn, but while the new deal should work out well, the Dots are
very much a legacy act: the very definition of a cult band. Much
like the hapless townspeople of LovecraftÆs ôNyarlathotepö most of
us have been in their thrall ever since the day their perpetually
touring medicine show rolled into our burg, and weÆre simply part
of the procession now, trailing like comet dust as the Dots move
onward, outward, darker now.
--idieyoudie.com
p l a y l i s t
01 a star is born 05:42
02 the garden of ealing 08:03
03 esher everywhere 07:32
04 pendulum 11:10
05 grey scale 06:08
06 a stretch in time 07:54
07 one more dimension 09:40
56:09 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl