Mystic Ingredients - Psytrain

Advantages: Something new
Disadvantages: Some Tracks Are Very Poor

...of listerning to it as it is very repeatative. The cd 'At war with the mystics' is the first cd I have heard from the band flaming lips so that means Im not going to be able to compare this cd to the one's they have brought out in the past. My favourite track on the cd is "It Overtakes" and for you to get an idea of what that sounds like, it is the sound track in the back ground of the advert, advertising becks. The music its self is a mix between todays rock and 60's music in my opinion but offically it is class as rock. I think the music is fantastic but a bit on the weird side so I dont no if you would like it or not. The becks advert is how I got listening to this band, my brother had the song off the advert and I thought it was quite good so I listerned to the album and thought about 85% of the track on there where good but I didnt like... Read review

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Advantages: It's bloody good
Disadvantages: It's not trendy

...lovin' brightens up my day". Ah, I could sing it to you now if only this medium would allow! "Caravan" is a livelier offering, full of gypsy references, which appear again in my favourite track, the unmistakeable and memorable "Into The Mystic". As well as featuring prominently in a Glenn Close film (the name of which escapes my memory) it is arguably Van Morisson's finest moment. "I just want to rock your gypsy soul, just like way back in the days of old, then magnificently we will float into the mystic". The all too short "Come Running" is a cracker, the style of which was reproduced more recently on the "Enlightenment" album, while "These Dreams Of You" fall back on the bluesy influences of the Irish band "Them" where Morrison was lead singer, although it is fair to say this isn't the highlight of Moondance by any stretch... Read review

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Advantages: Completely unheard sound, dark brooding atmosphere
Disadvantages: It's love it or hate it, actually

...There haven't been as many interestingly strange acts as Blut Aus Nord in the metal underground for some time now, even in this era of extreme expirimentation and blending of rock music's genres in general. The french project, lead by -typically- a shadowy individual by the pseudonym of Vindsvall, has been mostly know for the drastic change of styles from its first release entitled Ultima Thule where the "band" (it was just Vindsvall himself at the time) played in interesting varation of the Burzum-ic style of melodic, ambient black metal, to pass through the purist black metal of the next album "Memoria Vetusta I" reaching at the end the dissonant and psychedelic "Mystical Beast of Rebellion". This mini cd pushes to the extreme the boundaries of Blut Aus Nord's sound and the heavy metal perspective in general, to emerge somewhere... Read review

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