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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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Electric Tears, by Buckethead
This is the guy who plays concerts with a KFC bucket on his head and a white, expressionless mask on his face. He has played some strange styles over the years. He is perhaps best known for his stint with Guns and Roses--as Slash's replacement.
You'll be interested in this album if you like beautiful, strange things. You'll need a lot of endurance for this one too. It's entirely instrumental, and some of the songs are about 7 minutes too long. The instrumentation is all guitars. Acoustics provide a calm background while clean electrics solo slowly over the top. The sound is introspective, not quite melancholy, but very somber. Take, for example, the song Angel Monster (isn't that a great name for a song?). That song seems to explore duality and fallen nature. If you squint your ears you can hear some hope there too. The album isn't despairing, but it's not feel good music either. It's edgy without being loud, dissonant or ever saying a word. How many albums can say that?
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