Double Negative

Double Negative Artist: The Muffins
Label: Cutting Records
Category: Music


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


UPC: 045775019925
EAN: 0045775019925
ASIN: B0002T7Z0C


Release Date: 2004-09-21

Double Negative


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Tracks:

  1. The Highlands
  2. Writing Blind
  3. Choombachang
  4. The Ugly Buttling
  5. The Man In The Skin-Painted Suit
  6. Childhood's End
  7. Exquisite Corpse
  8. They Come On Unknown Nights
  9. Cat's Game
  10. Stethorus Punctum
  11. Dawning Star
  12. 5:00 Shadow
  13. Metropolis
  14. Angel From Lebanon
  15. Frozen Charlotte
  16. Maya
  17. The Two Georges

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Pretentious .......2007-05-13

I knew one of the band members all the way back in 1970 when we were in high school. That's why I tracked this record down. I listened to it several times. Can't remember a single track. This is really poor music. Sorry, man. Maybe it was fun jamming in the basement all those years ago but this stuff is second or third rate. (anyone notice that the other reviews were written on the same day? Hmmmm...)

5 out of 5 stars ALL THEIR OWN.......2004-10-18

Just to add to Robert's fine review: a number of "comparisons" ran through my head while listening this amazing CD. Absolutely none of them fit.

When I first heard "Bandwidth" I remember writing "new and familiar all at once". Now it's really not even a question of glimmers of this or that flickering in and between -- with "Double Negative" The Muffins arrive at a place completely their own. The scope of what these guys know of and know how to do is truly astonishing. There are moments when you think the music will take you someplace familiar and it simply, consistently, refreshingly refuses to do so. Which makes this CD a very rare accomplishment. I cannot catogerize this music beyond saying it's thoroughly incredible work. Be not afraid, buy a copy for yourself and for everyone you know.

5 out of 5 stars Bursting Into The Present.......2004-10-17

How does a 30-year old prog-rock band remain not only relevant, but vital in their dotage?

By writing kick-ass music which takes all of the intellect of the '70s and marries it to the vigor and contempt of today's music scene. By proving that instrumental music doesn't have to be sappy grocery store backgrounds. By thrusting from their loins a record so bold, so focussed that on first hearing it you spontaneously stand up and shout "Yeah!"

Comparisons could be made but would be essentially meaningless -- The Muffins are completely original while simultaneously having absorbed anything and everything since the Beatles broke up. This music is catholic (in the small 'c' meaning) appealing to fans of jazz, rock, heavy metal, Teutonic doom, avant-garde, big band, Belgian angst, university art-rock.... In fact it's so damn appealing I can't think of anybody it would offend.

Music Album:

  1. Goodbye ~ Ben & Jason
  2. Artistic Vice ~ Daniel Johnston
  3. Rude & Crude Sound Effects ~ Various Artists
  4. No Hints No Clues No Lies
  5. Sorpresa Del Tiempo
  6. Extremist Makeover
  7. Rewind: The Best In Music & Video ~ Various Artists
  8. Tidal Moon ~ Diane Devlin
  9. Seven Days in the Sun ~ Feeder
  10. Under the Influence: Super Furry Animals ~ Super Furry Animals

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Music Speaks Louder Than Words : James 'Blood' Ulmer Plays The Music Of Ornette Coleman ~ James Ulme

Survivors Suite ~ Keith Jarrett

Quiet Kenny

Legendary Sides ~ Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra

Cat in the Hat ~ Bobby Caldwell

Kanak Dance & Music from New Caldonia ~ Raymond Ammann

Pan Pipe Moods ~ Raul & His Pan Pipe Band

Sur ~ Anibal Troilo, Edmund Rivero

Guitarras Gitanas V.9 ~ Various Artists

Return to Love ~ Nana Mouskouri