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Pretty much one of the most atmospheric and strangest albums I've heard. If you're a fan of IDM/ambient and are looking for something really different, you must buy this album. It took a while for it to grow on me, but one day it clicked and Ive been listening to it a lot this past week. One reviewer said it was like walking through cavernous office buildings in a deserted industrial city, in the middle of the night.
Boomkat (an very large online music store) has a lot to say about it:
[quote]...this is not cold, lifeless, machine music. It draws the listener into a vast sound chamber where certain features remain constant, but others are restlessly shifting and squirming, like sea creatures. Brownout is, without doubt, Phoenecia's magnum opus, the place where the ideas found in the preceding records are allowed to come to full fruition.[/quote]
[url]http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=3318[/url]
[url]http://www.discogs.com/Phoenecia-Brownout/master/62346[/url]
I've listened through it. I'd recommend it.
I described it like this to a friend:
"It's like: the soundtrack to a movie on an old busted space ship that you will die on, only with hope around each corner, only to be let down and then scared... but it sounds really cool."
I really quite like it. It's slow, but in a good way, the bass in the songs also sounds cool in a tense way that wants you to relax.
Yeah, Phoenecia are pretty brilliant. I need to get some more of their stuff.
I've noticed they appear on compilation albums a [i]lot[/i] with other artists I listen to.
[QUOTE=gnome;17241768]Yeah, Phoenecia are pretty brilliant. I need to get some more of their stuff.
I've noticed they appear on compilation albums a [i]lot[/i] with other artists I listen to.[/QUOTE]
They fit in pretty well with Richard Devine.
They don't really have much stuff, they have this (Brownout) as their first full length album), and Randa Roomet as their only EP.
They need a new album by now, this one is from 2001.
Brownout is delightfully complex.
[QUOTE=Xyrofen;17241780]They fit in pretty well with Richard Devine.
They don't really have much stuff, they have this (Brownout) as their first full length album), and Randa Roomet as their only EP.
They need a new album by now, this one is from 2001.
Brownout is delightfully complex.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's actually what I was referring to mainly. I think they've done remixes of eachother's stuff at some point as well.
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