![]() ![]() Side 4 ("Goodbye Desolate Railyard"), characterized by acoustic guitar finger-picking in a major key overlaid with piano and sunrise-violin lines, has a very American feel to it. ![]() So innovative yet deeply musical and emotional music. Check out the section that begins just before the 9 min mark which then continues to the end with the 'choir' singing the lyrical theme. Containing some rare but beautiful (in a post-apocalyptic way!) vocal harmonies, the song remains subdued for the first 4.5 minutes, but then the drums and bass/cello/guitar pulses kick in. Awesome music! Side 3 ("American Motor Over Smoldered Field") is another of SMZ's most musical songs ever. ![]() The vocals are here are very effective, slowly building until each of the song's different themes are all being sung at once by different singers, bouncing off each other in a beautiful rag-tag counterpoint of overlapping melodies. It begins with some amazing soundscapes, slowly introducing the main themes. Side 2 ("Babylon Was Built On Fire/Starsnostars") is to my mind SMZ's most musical song (not only on this album, but their entire catalogue). The song is very hypnotic and beautiful, almost in a Floydian way (indeed, sections of this piece actually remind me of (though very different from) Atom Heart Mother). A silver mt zion this is our punk rock rar free#Side 1 ("So Some Lonesome Corners So Many Flowers Bloom") features a rag-tag improvised choir and a slow-building crescendo that is very musical despite representing an almost free experiment. Each of the four pieces on this album is unique and distinct - not only from each other, but from the rest of their catalogue. This sees the band writing extended epics - one on each side of the double vinyl album - and in turn developing their musical ideas over longer overlapping themes with quieter, sensitive violin and guitar compositions, while still remaining true to their post-apocalyptic post-punk ethos. I am shocked by the lower scores for this here. This is not only their most progressive, but most musical and most emotional album. ![]()
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