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I had my
expectations drifting high up in the sky for the new Katatonia album after
hearing one of the best albums ever with their last release "Tonight´s
Decision". The new album is no way near bad but still I was a bit
disappointed because of their slight change of style. The beautiful and
melancholic melodies that held up the last album are often missing on this one
and has been replaced with thick rolling sound waves. Their music is of course
still as melancholic and sad as ever but the subtle melodies from before are
very rare by now. At least Jonas Renkse hasn´t reinvoked the tormented vocals
from their early days which would sound pretty silly with their music of today
I suspect. However, the vocals are this time often softer and weaker than on
"Tonight´s Decision". This might have something to do with the fact that
Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth helped produce the vocals last time. I think
Katatonia has become too psychedelic and depressive for me to really enjoy
them as much as I did before. Last time there were beautiful and emotional
vocals together with just as beautiful melancholic melodies that made the
album one of the best releases of the year but this time the music feels more
conventional and perhaps also a little less interesting. It feels as if there
is something missing. Now that I have started critisizing this album real hard
I finally have to defend myself and Katatonia because they do not deserve the
kind of words I have been writing above. The melancholic Katatonia sound has
not been trown away but is still present on "Last Fair Deal..." with the
soothing vocals from Renkse adding the extra touch needed in order to create
the atmosphere loved by so many fans all over the world. A very good album it
is indeed although not the best from the band so far. This opus was produced,
mixed and engineered by Tomas Skogsberg, Jocke Pettersson and the band at
Sunlight Studio, Stockholm.
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Dispossession 2. Chrome 3. We Must Bury You 4. Teargas |
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5. I Transpire 6. Tonight´s Music 7. Clean Today 8. |
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The Future Of Speech 9. Passing Bird 10. Sweet Nurse 11. |
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Don´t Tell A Soul |
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