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06-19-2005, 03:14 AM
Yay, 100 posts finally!
I'm hesitant to label a band as one of my favorites, but I wouldn't place Lungfish anywhere else. This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime type bands that justifies the existence of music. It's really hard for me to write a review about them that doesn't sound sarcastic in its praise, so I borrowed this one from amazon:
"You know that really long fade-out of the Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from "Abbey Road" that sounds like it takes an eternity to carve itself into your consciousness, only to snap abruptly, silence ending a meditative, blissful state in reversal of tradition... it was the noise upon which you were meditating, and silence killed it... imagine harnessing that moment and experience and feeling of loss when that song ends, and extending it throughout a twelve-year career. Lungfish ably return you again and again to Point Zero, completely satisfied for the journey, only to find yourself having learned nothing, having traveled nowhere at all."
mp3 here (http://www.southern.com/southern/band/LUNGF/19647.php)
album samples (http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?r=1&ean=643859117026)
Its hard to find their music sometimes because of their obscurity, but if you can download any other mp3's, I would suggest:
the words
black helicopters
love is love
amnesiac
shapes in space
Barnes and noble song clips really don't do this band justice at all, you have to hear the songs in their entirety to get the "feel" of them. Although they have been called an "emo" band, the resemblance of their sound to anything you might consider corporate rock is completely nonexistent, the "emo" label exists only in the lyrics and works purely as a comparitive with progressive bands like mission of burma and minor threat. They go far and beyond most of their contemporaries. I see them much more in line with post-rock or the avant-garde.
Their music is characterized by a dense, spare sound with pounding rhythms. Most of their songs are a continuous climax without a second/chorus section, which might put some people off due to its repetitiveness, but the purpose, I assume, is to create a droning, meditative-type state. Please comment!
I'm hesitant to label a band as one of my favorites, but I wouldn't place Lungfish anywhere else. This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime type bands that justifies the existence of music. It's really hard for me to write a review about them that doesn't sound sarcastic in its praise, so I borrowed this one from amazon:
"You know that really long fade-out of the Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from "Abbey Road" that sounds like it takes an eternity to carve itself into your consciousness, only to snap abruptly, silence ending a meditative, blissful state in reversal of tradition... it was the noise upon which you were meditating, and silence killed it... imagine harnessing that moment and experience and feeling of loss when that song ends, and extending it throughout a twelve-year career. Lungfish ably return you again and again to Point Zero, completely satisfied for the journey, only to find yourself having learned nothing, having traveled nowhere at all."
mp3 here (http://www.southern.com/southern/band/LUNGF/19647.php)
album samples (http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?r=1&ean=643859117026)
Its hard to find their music sometimes because of their obscurity, but if you can download any other mp3's, I would suggest:
the words
black helicopters
love is love
amnesiac
shapes in space
Barnes and noble song clips really don't do this band justice at all, you have to hear the songs in their entirety to get the "feel" of them. Although they have been called an "emo" band, the resemblance of their sound to anything you might consider corporate rock is completely nonexistent, the "emo" label exists only in the lyrics and works purely as a comparitive with progressive bands like mission of burma and minor threat. They go far and beyond most of their contemporaries. I see them much more in line with post-rock or the avant-garde.
Their music is characterized by a dense, spare sound with pounding rhythms. Most of their songs are a continuous climax without a second/chorus section, which might put some people off due to its repetitiveness, but the purpose, I assume, is to create a droning, meditative-type state. Please comment!