Ivo said:
it would be really nice, if someone of you lads translate this
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Brilliant successors of Pink Floyd under a certain angle for the ones, unworthy grave-diggers in evil of inspiration for the others, Anathema does not leave indifferent. In their already vast discography, two albums are distinguished particularly:
Alternative 4 and especially very made a success of
Judgement (1999), which mixes progressive influences and metal skilfully darkest. Successor of
A Fine Day To Exit which, very depressive and perhaps a little too
ambient , divided the unconditional ones two years ago,
A Natural Disaster was thus to reconcile disappointed and to gain, why not, a vaster public.
Curiously, Anathema always seems to seek its marks on this disc, without really completely finding them. Admittedly, influences jump with ear, that it is on "Balance" which points out Radiohead, "Are You There?" (Peter Gabriel) or "A Natural Disaster" (Gathering). Let us be appropriate however that one can find worse source of inspiration. The whole sometimes is very purified, even minimalist, like the first part of "Violence", but the storm almost always thunders to explode with a fury hardly contained ("Flying ", "Pulled Under At 2000 Meters A Second"). The tension is almost palpable besides throughout this "natural disaster" which, far from being disastrous, can even confine with the superb one, with "Electricity" and its side Talk Talk for example.
The production is not in remainder: in model of the kind, it develops all subtleties of the ostentatious or heavy disc without never being. An inattentive listening of this new album will be able to perhaps disconcert, but it is gradually and ineluctably that
Natural Disaster is delivered. Like
the Brave man of Marillion, here one of these too rare albums equipped with an undeniable hypnotic capacity, inviting itself to the hollow of the tympanum to end up settling for a long time.
In spite of criticisms dithyrambic of an often unanimous press, Anathema never really took off commercially. Let us guarantee that the quartet of Liverpool will not enter the too long list of the maudits groups and that this very made a success of
Natural Disaster will allow him to finally collect the fruits of a success which it deserves amply.