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Dreamend:
As If by Ghosts
Dreamends As If by Ghosts sounds exactly like what the title describes. This is an album of noisy sonic tones, slowly moving lyrics and even slower strummed guitars. I just could not get into this album; listen after listen it became apparent to me that I would have appreciated acoustic performances of these songs over the droning sounds that disturbed my ability to hear what was going on with the bare bones of the tunes. There is an art to whats going on in this album; I just wasnt getting into it. Dreamend comes from Chicago, and this is their second full-length album. I dont feel like writing a bunch of negative things about this music, because I know it might work for some people. There were moments when the album did manage to draw me in, but for the most part, the long, repetitious songs just faded into one another and I struggled to pay attention; but that being said, what did I like? At times Dreamend sounded a bit like My Morning Jacket on a lot of the song intros (unfortunately for me I did not feel like they took off like a My Morning Jacket song does), but there are some rock out moments with heavy pounding on the drums and fast scraping on the guitar. Although that picked up the tempo of the album, the songs never found a groove or at least anything that got stuck in my head. The cover art is fantastic and actually might be what threw me off. I saw the old black and white image on the cover with a couple of guys dressed in tuxedos from the first half of the twentieth century, and I thought for sure I was going to be listening to some new big band type of album; when it wasnt, I had trouble finding what I was looking for in the music. Bottom line is that while this album isnt for me, it will work for some.
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