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04 Jul, 2006
"Misery has never sounded so beautiful" - AMG
This is another wonderful album by one of Britain's great undiscovered bands. Nine albums and they should be as big as Radiohead or Pink Floyd. They have finally discovered their sound - Pink Floyd meets Radiohead meets ambient doom! I love this CD. Every track is a gem - Harmonium, Closer (brilliant), Balance, Childhood Dream, Are You There (beautiful, beautiful), Pulled Under at 2000 Metres a Second, A Natural Disaster (which has touches of Portishead about it). If you like this you should also get the 2001 cd "A Fine Day to Exit".
Here's what the All Music Guide said:
Three years ago, Liverpool's former power metal act Anathema issued A Fine Day To Exit, a wildly experimental change in direction from their gloriously punishing doom excesses. The set was a lushly produced nod to bands who explored the melodic fringes of dark, futuristic rock & roll -- Radiohead, Coldplay. While it took off from the tempered strategies of Judgement and proved an interesting ride, it ultimately failed to captivate not only the band's faithful, but also to win any new fans; it was lost in its excesses and unclear in its direction. On A Natural Disaster, Anathema looks down the road further, this time glancing back once in awhile to its strengths, and hones its focus. The end result is the quartet's finest outing since Eternity, which it touches upon in its quest for emotionally expressive music that doesn't shun experimentation, with the lush textures of keyboards and spatial ambiences, but embraces them as part of an expansive, gripping, and all-encompassing rock sound. This is the kind of genre-toppling ambition that Radiohead has been seeking to fulfill for a couple of years (how odd that something they inspired is the very thing they cannot seem to grasp) where a marriage between the textures and esthetics of Pink Floyd meet the modern weariness of British Isles melancholy, and the deep melodic richness of after-it's-over pop. "Are You There" with its gorgeous female backing vocals traipsing through Vincent Cavanagh's resigned, yet yearning croon is buoyed by keyboards, mirage-like single string guitar lines, and airy echo chambers, which open onto a vista that is open and broken, where guitars and drums skitter and shimmer in the muggy warmth of its grief-wrenched body. The gurgling electric piano that ushers in "Balance" is merely the warning shot before a thudding drum allows Cavanagh's vocals to soar and swoop -- á la Thom Yorke at his most expressive and unpretentious -- all before a bank of whispering keyboards opens out onto a wail of guitar fury complete with overdriven riffs. The vocoders in "Closer" might be disconcerting for a moment, until they are woven into a braid of ethereally heavy atmospherics where Danny Cavanagh's guitars course through the middle, lifting up everything in their path. The feminine Celtic blues of Leon Douglas on the title track allows the vocalist a languid space in the wondrously silky, yet bleakly seductive din woven by the Cavanagh Brothers' guitars. Simply put, these Liverpudlians know how to make a dark rock album; it's full of alienation, honest emotion, tense, suffocating theater, and stunningly beautiful textures. These are songs of longing, separation, loss, and blissed-out agony, played by a band who have arrived at single-pointed concentration and turn their heaviness inside out, never forsaking it, yet weaving it seamlessly into a new incarnation that would win legions of "alterna-rock2 fans
03 Jul, 2006
Fabulous album - they're more Radiohead than Radiohead!
1 of 1 found this helpful I am someone who is always listening out for "new" bands. In this particular case, Anathema are certainly not a new band, having been around for 15 years or so but until April 2005 they were new to me. That's when I saw them supporting Porcupine Tree at the Bierkeller in Bristol, UK. Even then, I wasn't particularly blown away - nice songs, very melodic, bit of edge to them. But I was there to see Porcupine Tree.
Anyway, it's a year later and I find their 1995 CD "The Silent Enigma" at a car boot sale and I play it over and over and over. I can't get enough. And the next CD of theirs I buy is "A Fine Day To Exit" (2001) And I still can't enough. This is a magnificent CD. I loved it from the moment I first heard it. Graceful, dark, powerful, melodic. Every track is a gem. Think Radiohead, then think Portishead, then think Pink Floyd and even My Dying Bride and you start to imagine the Anathema sound.
Here's what the All Music Guide said about this album.
Lush isn't an adjective that one would have used to describe Anathema in the early to mid-'90s; back then, the British band was often described as blistering, ferocious, and brutal. But Anathema has changed considerably since then, and 2001's A Fine Day to Exit is, in fact, a lush and highly melodic effort that has very little in common with their early releases. While the old Anathema was an underground metal band, this CD has nothing to do with metal -- even those who have an extremely broad definition of the term heavy metal would agree there's no way that A Fine Day to Exit should be described as metal. Anathema has evolved into an atmospheric, moody, spacey alternative rock outfit whose influences range from Radiohead to Pink Floyd to the Beatles to various goth rockers; without question, Anathema has reinvented themselves in a major way. Whether or not this change is a good thing depends on one's point of view; headbangers who only want to hear a metal-oriented Anathema will no doubt resent the fact that tracks like "Underworld" and "Looking Outside Inside" have nothing to do with metal. But those who keep an open mind and respect Anathema's right to evolve will find that this album has a great deal to offer. The only thing about Anathema that hasn't changed is their desire to provide dark, gloomy lyrics; as much as the band has evolved musically, they haven't lost their fascination with the dark side. A Fine Day to Exit may not be the album that headbangers dream of, but it's a pleasing chapter in the evolution of Anathema.
Source: http://www.allmusic.com/
I really can't say more than this, except buy this CD.
28 Aug, 2018
Dylan at his best
Great album by one of the greats of modern music. You don't win a Nobel Prize for Literature for nothing!