Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
Beskrivning:Kula Shaker - smaka på namnet! Cool. eller hur? Låter som a super hip african band. Men de kom från London och hade en ganska kort karriär, kanske därför att de inte var så hippa som de själva trodde. Alla texter i häftet.
"Fame was not kind to Kula Shaker, largely because Crispian Mills could not keep his mouth shut. Speaking like the child of privilege he is, Mills alienated a fair segment of the British pop audience and music press with presumptuous, misguided comments about mysticism and spirituality, as well as a general arrogance. A mere eight months after the release of their debut, K, Kula Shaker was dreadfully overexposed and the group's hippy-dippy neo-psychedelicism and rock classicism were falling out of favor, leaving them with little choice but to retreat to work on their second record....By the time their second record, Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts, was released in the spring of 1999, it had been two-and-a-half years since K appeared in stores -- enough time to regulate the group to footnote status for many observers. You wouldn't know that from the grand, theatrical sound of Peasants, however. The record comes on as a blockbuster, deluging the listener with layers of psychedelic effects, swirling guitars, appropriated chants, Indian instruments, Deep Purple jams, Beatles references, and mystical babble. On a purely sonic level, it's easy to admire what Kula Shaker achieve. They have no shame in recreating the summer of love in a '90s studio and, with Ezrin's help, they've created some enticing, sugary Technicolor treats. The problem is, the high fades away pretty quickly, leaving very little of substance behind....Only a handful of songs -- "Shower Your Love," "108 Battles" -- are memorable outside of their sonic trappings, which leaves Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts in pretty much the same position as K. It's the kind of record that sounds pretty impressive as it plays, but makes almost no lasting impression." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com)
Speltid 54:11.
Språk:
Skivbolag: Columbia COL 493142 2 (1999)
Format: CD
Skick: Begagnad
Spår:
- Great Hosannah
- Mystical machine gun
- S.O.S.
- Radhe Radhe
- I´m still here
- Shower your love
- 108 battles (Of the mind)
- Sound of drums
- Timeworm
- Last farewell
- Golden avatar
- Namani nanda- nandana