The album comes out next week. I’m pretty excited. Anyone hear it yet?
Just the song that’s up on their MySpace. I’m really excited for this one. I’ve got it pre-ordered. If it’s anywhere near as good as TG-NOW was, I’ll be happy.
the album is actually kinda weak. There’s a few really good songs but none are alike to their older work.
Seperated though is one of the best TG songs ever. And this is their only studio album! (i think)
i noticed it on oink last week. haven’t had the time to check it out though. i’m not expecting too much out of it so i shouldn’t be disappointed.
the album is actually kinda weak. There’s a few really good songs but none are alike to their older work.
Um…that was the whole point.
Yes I have the album and YES it is a winner. Run out and buy it now.
[b]Poised somewhere between the conceptual clutter of D.o.A. and the more seamless, tuneful 20 Jazz Funk Greats, The Endless Not picks up right where TG left off in ’81. Treats like the spoken-word ramble “Rabbit Snare” elevate their style into something resembling a modern art-song, with jazz-noir trappings, spartan melodic touches, and treated crowd samples, framing an oddly emotive set of lyrics. Chris Carter’s “Separated” (sequel to “United,” perhaps?) literally throbs, the sound of mice running through the circulation vents of a warehouse resonant with the sound of distant, dripping pipes—the factory afterhours, slowly releasing its pressurized vapor.
“Greasy Spoon” and “Lyre Liar” are far denser, choppier tracks, somewhat resonant of the early work of the great Nurse With Wound. The first unfurls a web of queasy churning punctuated with sparkling chimes, squirrely tape manipulations and tense metallic shrieks; the latter sharpens the noise into more rhythmic oscillations, the sound of the sea of textured writhing growing stormier still. “Above the Below” and “After the Fall” feel like doodles stretched out to pad an album, but the tracks between more than make up for them: “Endless Not” is a shifting, thundering, heavy piece of pervo-synthpop done up with Coil-esque string leaps and nervous waves of treated vocals and samples, and “The Worm Waits Its Turn” plays the gross-out card they’ve been keeping tucked under their sleeve, a noxious Gen spoken-word diatribe replete with bleeding sonics. Whatever comes next for this quartet of iconoclasts, they’ve passed their biggest hurdle unscathed and returned from a twenty-six year absence with a worthy addition to the catalog. [/b]
And AMEN to that…!!
I’ve just listened to Part two twice, but I really loved it. the sound is great on that album.
And I finally received their biography. Will start reading it this week end.
For whatever reason I put off listening to this when it came out. I guess I always thought of TG as a band very much OF their time and FOR their time. Bad move. As I’m listening to this I’m awestruck in a way I don’t think I’ve been since hearing Wolf Eyes’ “Dead Hills” EP for the first time.
This album is fucking amazing! I cannot recommend it enough! I am familiar with most of their catalogue and have the priveledge of being unbiased towards older material because I’m a new fan. I feel I can judge their output equally and would definitely rank this as their best album.
The experimental numbers are just as good as the experimental songs on classics like ‘20 Jazz Funk Greats’, but infinitely updated and modernized with the new technology and instruments they’re using. At the same time, the “pop” songs are not as painfully embarassing and shitty as “United”. Some of the more melodic tunes where Genesis actually sings are actually awesome!
Best Tracks:
“Rabbit Snare”
“The Worm Waits its Turn”
“Greasy Spoon”
“After the Fall”
“Vow of Silence”
Worst Tracks:
“The Endless Not”
“Almost a Kiss”
BUY THIS ALBUM IMMEDIATELY YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!!!