The Red Veil

The Red Veil Artist: SubArachnoid Space
Label: Strange Attractors
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 789856302529
EAN: 0789856302529
ASIN: B000784WBS


Release Date: 2005-02-15

The Red Veil


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Tracks:

  1. Honorable Mention
  2. Ourobouros
  3. The Red Veil
  4. Trainable
  5. P.S.S.A.
  6. Duster

Similar Items:

  1. Also Rising
  2. These Things Take Time
  3. Ether Or
  4. Alpine Static
  5. The King Beneath the Mountain

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars heavy on the heavy, and forging ahead..........2005-12-30

It's a shame that it's been almost a year since The Red Veil was released and no one has reviewed it yet. Subarachnoid Space is one of the great space rock bands of the last ten years or so, and The Red Veil definitely lives up to that billing.

Changes in the band's line-up have resulted in a sleeker, sharper sound; The Red Veil has more of a metal edge than their previous releases. Tracks like "Honorable Mention" and "Trainable" explode out of nowhere and hammer the listener (much to the listener's delight), whereas the 11-minute title-track builds more slowly, harkening back to the noiser, more addled and wandering sound of These Things Take Time (2000) and Also Rising (2003). On The Red Veil, the sensation is more of hurtling through the wormhole (on some sort of bleak yet necessary mission) and knocking a lot of junk out of the way in the process. It's still stark, just a little more ticked off.

The straight-ahead tracks (1,2,4) work better than the slower, tension builders (3,5,6) on The Red Veil. Unlike the two albums mentioned above, this one is made up of distinct tracks---it's not an album-wide composition---which leaves the longer, more exploratory tracks somewhat disconnected from one another and (at times) lacking in vitality. We seem to get two, somewhat competing personalities here: one new, one old. This is not, however, an album about building momentum (in the old Subarachnoid fashion); when it's at its best, it's about kicking your door down, taking a breather, and doing it again. Such fun! I imagine (and hope) that the next release will be a fuller realization of this new space-metal sound that The Red Veil promises.

Music Album:

  1. When We Were Lost ~ The Lofty Pillars
  2. Stars on Guitars ~ The Ventures
  3. Radiator ~ Super Furry Animals
  4. Rev Up ~ Revillos
  5. Zigzag: 20 Junkshop Soft Rock Singles 1970-1974 ~ Various Artists
  6. Songs You Know By Heart [Gold Disc] ~ Jimmy Buffett
  7. The Ghost of Cain ~ New Model Army
  8. Don't Turn Me Off ~ The Gift Machine
  9. Welcome to the Cruise and Sports Car ~ Judie Tzuke
  10. Fresh Cream ~ Cream

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Digga Digga Do ~ Hot Club Sandwich

The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, Vol. 3 ~ Louis Armstrong

After Blue ~ Ken Schaphorst Big Band

Traditional Jazz Legends, Vol. 6 ~ Sing Miller

Haunted Heart ~ Eddie (Trio) Higgins

Charlie Parker at Storyville ~ Charlie Parker

Javelina Cantina ~ Omar Mondragon de Leon

Inspiration

IBIS ~ IBIS

Makem & Clancy Collection ~ Tommy Makem w, Liam Clancy