Album report: Menomena - friend and Foe

Rating: 8 from 10Menomena is one of those volumes, which I will defend, even if I not necessarily everything may it have done. On song by song a basis their relationship of "me likes" "me unimportant" (there are not enough, ", whom I do not mention Like"s), is honestly approximately 1:1. But man! the "I likes" are serious some and memorably strange jewels. Much was formed by the way songwriting the approximation of these chaps - a customized piece of software spits out reef, bolts themselves and then mixes it and arranges these into material song after the row _ well, I to D pleasure of saw it to drum, etc. to live (it unexplainably to open for group of four two year before), and can testify that it to sound all however canned.Friend and enemy be strangely, more chaotically, and nevertheless also more continuously than Menomena's beginning I its D fun debt monster! While this album slowed down seriously in the Momentum in the center, friend and enemy nearly completely maintains his energy. ("gang hell" is some Trottenlagerschwelle.) On each possible given song the instrument equipment is meager, yet the entire pallet is extremely different: Mehrfachvocals, drums, different Perkussion, lots of saxophones, pianos and the occasional starting Guitarre. The fundamental blueprint: if you preselect a pair of these elements, point a melody or two (or three...) those, so accessible too, line up you are them together or let you them a sequence of battles produce to include lots empty area in order to form the explosive dynamics more intensively, and something from most creative and fantastischsten drums in the world to use to hold to them those everything together.I not even tried to do the song justice with words - they are experienced well at the volume and with an opened understanding. All three of my favourites are near the end of the album. "mine mine" is moving beautiful, with a rising break close of the center, which lets my skin tingle still. "from Boyscout'N", from a feschen March, with whistling completely and from the persistent sax impacts, those the fair Unterhaelte, which keeps larger in the clay/tone within the range and, followed that. Burns itself out near the end and whistling carries the listener more rueber to the epischen "bad bee,", which handhas cram at least five different movements in less, than the much minutes.The bare quantity of creativity of the work in this album varies. Song are untidily nevertheless magnificent; unforeseeably nevertheless organically dynamically. And I repeat it: They do not hear this otherwise drums, which is inventive from nobody. My a criticism over the album is it can intimidate. There are definitely tendencies, with which it works better than others, and I would not really recommend it for social situations - it is little a merry Tyrann for your attention. But it rewards the attention admirablly and throughout. I expect a long bearing endurance on this.
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