The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
I listened to the new The Knife album. Several times. I figured that if siblings presented a few tracks of the classics of the genre on this album, which are not just ambient interludes (since almost all of them take the few minutes), this record should be reviewed here, on eyebient. So, I review this part of the album you can tag as ambient music. You can not accuse The Knife of dilettantism in terms of modern ambient music. Yes, they are oriented and it’s pretty good. But why they record tracks of which sound oscillates less than on the level of the average ambient artists beginners? Do unremarkable piece that is anointed by the brilliant (so far) band should be considered as a better one cause they tried new genre? Do not kid yourself, this album sparkles with tacky ideas and shocks with its secondariness. Perhaps for someone who only heard Hecker and Oneohtrix Point Never in terms of ambient music recently, ‘Shaking The Habitual’ will not disappoint even with the amateurish approach to the subject or even this kind of children’s approach meet with enthusiasm. The culmination of unforgivable sins is ‘Fracking Fluid Injection’. As the comment I suggest listening to Megafortress ‘My Favorite Girl’, which was released on the EP more than one year ago. It’s hard not to get to the malice but I have to comment: what will be next in ambient music? Brian Eno played by Coco Rosie toys?
The uniqueness of this album isn’t only deep immersion in the buffer of impressionism but it is primarily a consequence of which the author creates additional tracks which are apparently separate worlds connected to the main atom and infected with the main Debussy concepts of music. ————————————————————————————————————
Dark ambient at various stages of taming. That’s what we hear it’s not dark ambient. Listening to this album first of all makes us damn pleasure.
Associations and associations. Music Is Painting In The Air (2012). Andersen. Scandinavia. Mastery of krautrock landscapes.
Remains of the Day. Beautiful sound spots. Melting snow turns into gold. One of the best contemporary R’n’B experimentalists surprises us with modest but experimental brilliant album for airports. A Beautiful Mind. d’Eon.
The universe. Whe multiverse. The mastery of combining in perfect system of communicating vessels.
This album has therapeutic value, even a little better than the lavender bath or listening to the noise of the sea. Paradoxically, the album is also one of the most psychedelic of experimental frequencies revealed in 2012. And it’s not only about the noise but more about bipolar feeling. Anxiety and calmness.
This is without a doubt one of the most demanding records of the year. Catherine Christer Hennix and her band make things which seem to be impossible. Stockausen for human beings. Effect breathtaking.
Apart from the fact that Norm Chambers released this album and proved that his new records can be totally different and equally valuable as music associated with his alias Jürgen Müller, ‘Baroque Atrium’ is a masterpiece of contemporary new age. In fact, one might believe that everything here is organic and even synthesizer sounds like field recording.
Despite the fact that ‘Valence’ could be the best illustration for the scientific presentations, of which many could dream including Stephen Hawking, this album shows that in such a simple and beautiful in its simplicity music, so many new things can be happen. Modern, because this album is a masterwork of innovative shots of harmony between music and silence. ‘Valence’ is also a form of meditation, and meditation in music is something what really attracts me: searching for aspects of sleep, calmness and quiet.
