OFF: Planetfall!

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 07:09:05PM +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson typed out:
> So, Amazon delivered, iTunes has ripped, and Litmus is planetfallin'  
> for me.  Only as far as "Lost Stations" so far, and I'm convinced! :)

	Agreed, I'm pretty happy with this. Something threw me about the 
way the first track is mixed the first couple of times through, the 
electronics are so large in the sound that they rob the actual tune of 
some of its impact, but it sounds better loud--obviously--and in the end 
what it comes down to is that I've seen them do it better live, which is 
just something I'll have to live with. But otherwise what I have heard 
before is certainly up to standard and there's enough stuff I haven't, 
also all quality, that I still got to feel as if I was discovering a new 
album. I was kind of startled to find all the first three tracks coming 
in at under five minutes though!

	It's difficult to say whether I just haven't heard it as much as 
`Under the Sign', which was my instinctual guess at best song on the 
disc, but actually I think `Fare Neyond' is the greatest patch on here. 
Partly because of its position, coming after a set of quite direful 
negative songs it suddenly returns to pace and drive and adrenalin and 
carries you towards the end of the disc much more hopeful than the doomy 
tinges of the previous fare might have left you. So yes: I don't know 
yet whether this will be my album of the year but as yet no other 
stronger contenders present themselves... Yours,
						 Jon

ObCassette: The Fall - _Cerebral Caustic_
-- 
"When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
	    (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk