I’m bizarrely excited to listen
to this album but I can’t even remember why. I also can’t remember if the
artist name is “Le Kov” or “Gwenno”. Oh well.
http://heavenlyrecordings.com/artist/gwenno/
- Hi a Skoellyas Liv a Dhagrow
- Well
that sure is a song name. This…is probably not an English-speaking album.
Although if it’s all ambient like this first song that won’t be a
problem. Now the 1960’s come in and spoil it all with spacey lounge music. I kind of like the vibe, but I would
have liked it a lot more 20 years ago. Yeah, they’re not speaking
English. At least I don’t think so. It sounded like she said “the
croissant pony”. I’m already bored though. Five-and-a-half minutes is way
too long for what’s happening here.
- Tir Ha Mor
- How
the heck did I even find this album? Maybe on Album Of The Year? Oh yeah…I
bet that’s it - https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/95218-gwenno-le-kov.php.
More space lounge. Generic space lounge, with heavier drums and a harp.
What in the world language is this?...Cornish? (http://www.theargus.co.uk/leisure/arts_and_entertainments/16076106.Welsh_singer_Gwenno_s_new_album_is_written_entirely_in_the_Cornish_language___here_s_why/)
This live review is turning into a research project. Don’t actually read
that page though because you will hate this dumb person and their dumb
person views on art and education and the real world.
- Herdhya
- Another
ambient intro. I wish she’d gone this route the whole album, and also not
decided to sing. Her singing is totally generic for the Euro-lounge thing…slightly
raspy, a little breathy, way too sweet. More than a minute in with no
wacky space sounds though so that’s a plus. I fell asleep, just a little
bit.
- Eus Keus?
- WOKE
ME UP! Wacky sounds, up and down! She’s so sultry now, except she’s not
because she sounds like she’s faking the tone and also speaking goo goo ga
ga made-up language. Aaaand there’s the shouted chorus of multiple voices
that are all hers. She’s really hitting all the marks. I’m starting to
get annoyed that this got good reviews when all she really did was take a
standard retro album and make the lyrics unintelligible. Dear Mr. Google,
can you have a hit album in a language no one understands? https://www.villagevoice.com/2013/05/23/different-tongues-10-foreign-language-songs-that-rule-the-world/
or http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/foreign-language-songs-that-got-to-number-1__19039/
. So…no?
- Jynn-amontya
- Ugh…why
are all the songs five minutes long? I guess I can tune out a little to
get to the next one. Because nothing of interest is happening in this
song. Like at all, for reals. In a normal album I could at least focus on
the lyrics but these are all “JYNN AMONTYA BLOO BLAH MANANA”. Her stupid
website isn’t any help. Genius isn’t any help. You can get her last album
in English (https://ydyddolaf.wordpress.com/) but
that’s not much help either. This is the best I can do:
Is there cheese?
Is there or isn’t
there?
If there’s
cheese, bring cheese
And if there
isn’t cheese – bring what’s easy!
Come
on…seriously?
- Den Heb Taves
- Birdies.
Shrieking. Six minutes.
- Daromres y’n Howl
- I
got a scam phone call toward the end of the last song. It was the best
part. This one does the “start with disjointed random crap and coalesce
into something less crappy” trick to distract you from the fact that this
is just another lounge rock song with mediocre vocals. Oh whoa! The male
vocals that cut in halfway through are ABRUPT but I also like them. They
have way more character than her singing for sure.
- Aremorika
- I’ll
pretend this is a cutting commentary on America but I don’t care enough
to confirm that. Sounds like the best way to comment on America is to
forget what you’re doing halfway through and slow to almost a stop while
the remaining instruments drone on atonally. What the hell was with that
ending? Fadeoutrightnowquick!
- Hunros
- Is
this the last song? Please be. Almost. It’s so much more of a chore to
listen to a dull album like this than it is a bad album. At least with a
truly terrible album there are things to talk about. This is a bad
concept but the actual music is totally forgettable. And this song is
annoying with the lifeless harp strums and her bland singing. Did I
already use “bland”? Probably. I’m running out of boring words for
boring.
- Koweth Ker
- Maybe
this song is in Klingon. Shoot…it’s not. http://tradukka.com/translate/en/tlh
says the English translation is just “ker koweth”. I forgot that I was
supposed to be researching things. This song is also six minutes. It’s
more song-like than the last one but at this point I don’t even care. SPACE
NOISES! FROM THE 60s! What a waste of time.
Final rating:
Three synonyms for “dull” out of 10. This album could have probably been remarkable in the
late 90s but everything on here has been done to death and it doesn’t even have
any emotion behind it to move it past generic and derivative.
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