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▀▀██████▀ Artist: The Legendary Pink Dots
░ ▄ ▓█████▀ Title───: Pages Of Aquarius
██ █████▀ Label────: Metropolis Records
▒██ █████ Genre─────: Avantgarde
▒▓██ ███▓ Str.date──: 22-04-2016
▓████ ▓██▒ Rip.date──: 07-05-2016
▒████ ▀█ Source────: WEB Store FLAC > WAV
▓████▄ █▄ Encoder───: LAME 3.98 -V0
▒ ▓████▄ █ Ripper───: Team ZzZz
▒██████▄ Quality──: 244kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
▓██████▄ Tracks──: 9
▄▄█████████▀ Size──: 147.87MB
▄▄██████▀▀▀▀ ▄▄▄▄▄ Url──: http://metropolisrecords.bandcamp.com
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█▓ 01. Mirror Mirror 6:42
█▓ 02. The Greatest Story Ever Told 6:47
█▓ 03. D-Train 6:17
█▓ 04. Credibility 7:11
█▓ 05. Trending 6:32
█▓ 06. Touching The Forelock 5:30
█▓ 07. Prodigal 8:29
█▓ 08. Don't Go There - Page Aquarian - Jacob's Ladder 17:09
█▓ 09. The Weight Of Water Parts 1-4 15:55
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▒▓██▓ The Legendary Pink Dots is an Anglo-Dutch experimental ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ rock band formed in London in 1980. Although far ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ outside the mainstream, LPD have released more than 40 ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ albums, have a devoted worldwide following, and tour ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ frequently. Distinctive vocals and lyrical imagery ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ blended with hypnotic guitar and synth washes and ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ spellbinding bass pulses to create an enthralling, ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ captivating release. ░█▓▒
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▒▓██▓ Review by thequietus.com: ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ The problem with the Age of Aquarius is that nobody ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ seems to know when it's due, or indeed whether or not ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ it's already begun. According to the song 'Aquarius' ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ from hippy musical Hair, the dawning will come when ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ "The moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ with Mars." Unfortunately, as astrologer Neil Spencer ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ has noted, the moon enters the seventh house daily, ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ while Jupiter and Mars are aligned several times a ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ year. Other astrologers have argued for Aquarian start ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ dates ranging from 1447 right up until 3597. ░█▓▒
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▒▓██▓ In the popular imagination, however, the Age of ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Aquarius will always be associated with the ôlove ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ generationö counter-culture of the 1960s, and ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ represents the utopian new age that their flower power ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ shenanigans were supposed to usher in. In other words, ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ it should be here by now, and it manifestly isn't. As ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Legendary Pink Dots' mainstay Edward Ka-Spel notes, if ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ this is Aquarius page one then love, peace and good ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ hair are hardly qualities in the ascendant. "It wasn't ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ supposed to be like this," he writes. "Are we in for ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ another 2,160 years of this?" ░█▓▒
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▒▓██▓ Ultimately though, Ka-Spel's conclusions are ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ optimistic. What we're actually living through are the ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ death throes of the Pisces Age, he argues; it's brutal ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ and painful, but it won't last. The way to get through ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ is by letting go, on both a personal and societal ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ level, and in order to do this we need to look ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ unflinchingly at where we are now, what is holding us ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ back and what will help us move forward. ░█▓▒
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▒▓██▓ So the album's opening track, 'Mirror, Mirror' tackles ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ introspection, narcissism and self-loathing alongside ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ the hard but necessary task of looking closely at your ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ own self and putting the work in to improve. Stinging ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ synthesiser blasts reflect this flinching process over ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ driving electronic percussion, before a melancholy ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ mellotron passage suggests a degree of sorrowful ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ self-acceptance has been found. On 'The Greatest Story ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Ever Told,' a swarm of buzzing clockwork wasps ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ soundtrack rising existential dread before the song ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ shifts into a litany of reasons not to worship God, or ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ indeed watch his movies on TV, all set to a queasy ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ rendition of 'All Things Bright and Beautiful.' The ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Age of Pisces is often identified as the Christian ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ era, and early Christians identified themselves using ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ two fishes as a symbol; among other qualities, ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Aquarius is associated with the decline of religion ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ and the rise of technology. "We worship technology," ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Ka-Spel whispers ambivalently at the close. ░█▓▒
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▒▓██▓ How the glorious analogue squelching of 'D-Train' fits ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ into the concept I'm not sure, but 'Credibility' and ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ 'Trending' take a look at the world around us, the ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ former cursing "Damn your eyes, austerity" over ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ lullaby-like piano, while the latter looks at the ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ mysterious force of the zeitgeist as represented by ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ popular topics on social media. Watching "the great ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ sea ripple," Ka-Spel wonders who or what is driving ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ the trends, directing our thoughts and attention as ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ one linked collective organism. ░█▓▒
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▒▓██▓ The album concludes with two multi-part epics. The ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ near-eighteen minute 'Don't Go There- Page Aquarian- ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Jacob's Ladder' begins in haunting yet propulsive ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ style, discussing surveillance culture and "cameras ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ everywhere" before shifting onto memory as a form of ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ observation, returning to the theme of looking ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ unsparingly at your own past actions and how they've ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ led you to where you are now. A collage of found sound ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ leads into a passage of spare percussion over which ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Ka-Spel considers the stars and the notion of destiny, ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ before the final section finds tentative piano chords ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ reverberating over the sound of a gathering storm. ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Here considerations of mortality and the afterlife are ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ resolved into the need to make peace and find some ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ kind of acceptance. ░█▓▒
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▒▓██▓ For CD listeners, that's where the album ends, but it ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ would be a shame to miss out on the sixteen-and-a-half ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ minute 'The Weight of Water Parts 1-4,' which is only ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ available on digital and double vinyl editions. A dry, ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ steady pulse beat supports slabs of musique concrete ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ and some non-judgemental meditations on ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ self-destructive behaviour, before a frantic flurry of ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ low piano notes in a repeating, claustrophobic loop ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ successfully simulates a panic attack. This then ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ shifts into an oceanic evocation of waking at 3am with ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ the realisation that your life has been wasted in ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ deceit and acquisitiveness, before the instrumental ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ final section captures a zen-like sensation of ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ beatific release, with acoustic and electronic ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ textures beautifully balanced against each other. ░█▓▒
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▒▓██▓ Aquarius of course is the water bearer, and 'The ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ Weight of Water' effectively sums up the pain and ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ difficulty of this period of transition. There's no ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ need though to take the astrological metaphors ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ literally; this album can be enjoyed purely as an ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ unsettling and moving 83 minutes of music, and for ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ those who do listen closely to the words, Ka-Spel's ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ dry sense of humour undercuts any tendency towards new ░█▓▒
▒▓██▓ age pretentiousness. ░█▓▒
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▒▓██▓ Their long history could make some wrongly see the ░█▓▒
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we thank all the fans, we will
keep rocking...
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Greetingz Team ZzZz