Kallocain

Artist: Paatos
Label: Inside Out U.S.
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 693723607627
EAN: 0693723607627
ASIN: B00024BHRE

Release Date: 2004-09-09

Kallocain

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Tracks:

Gasoline
Holding On
Happiness
Absinth Minded
Look At Us
Reality
Stream
Won't Be Coming Back
In Time

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Album Description

Kallocain is the second album from Paatos and was mixed by Steve Wilson (Porcupine Tree). The Swedish band entitles their music "melancolic post rock" with influences ranging from Björk, Can, King Crimson and Portishead, amongst many others. Paatos made their way into the music business very quickly: The first album (Timeloss) was signed to a major label (Stockholm Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music) for Sweden and was soon followed by Paatos' appearance in TV, radio and film. For their second album, Kallocain, Paatos have signed a worldwide deal with Inside Out Music and on the enthusiastic reactions from Timeloss, this new CD will be strongly awaited from both the media and fans alike.

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding and Unique.......2006-03-31

This album is that one in a thousand that makes it worth trudging through the other 999 to find a gem! I love it, especially the song 'Look At Us'. The singers voice is very nice, and the instrumental arrangements are quite unique and very well done. Personally, I like this album better than Timeloss, but they are both well worth picking up. The DVD that accompanies this CD is also outstanding but it only has 4 songs on it. I hope they release these albums on SACD and an entire concert recorded in DTS Surround!

It's not fair........2005-02-27

It's not fair at all that I'm the first person to review this album. I just got it last night, and haven't stopped listening to it since. Well, okay, so I did put it aside for an exploration of King Crimson's "THRAK", but that _any_ album could draw my attention away from King Crimson's body of work, which I'm currently discovering and obsessing over, is a marvelous achievement.

I know little about this band. I haven't looked into them, their past work, or their members. What I do know is that this isn't any female-fronted rock group. While most bands with a female vocalist tend to downplay the music in favor of "powerful" female singing, the vocals seem to be more like another texture in a beautiful daydreaming landscape of energy, creation, sorrow, and adoration.

The instrumentation itself is comprised of mournful mellotrons, subtle, intricate, tasteful, exploratory jazzy guitar that _really_ weeps, drumming patterns that explore various time signatures, driving rhythms, and what almost seems like dance beats thrown in a blender in an interesting crossbreed of Bill Bruford and Pat Mastelotto (Mmmm, King Crimson...)'s respective improvisatory jazz stylings and hard-rock grooves. The sonic textures remind me a bit of Radiohead's "Kid A" at its best, but more melodic and less abrasive. Traces of Anekdoten abound.

This is good music. It's just too bad that no one else has reviewed it before, because what you get are basically my first impressions. If my initial reaction intrigues you, take a chance. And write a review of your own... this is a talented band. Four stars because I haven't given it the test of time yet, but I can definitely say that these songs are texturally dense... with lots of melodies, harmonies, and rhythms to sort out and fall in love with as the music unfolds.

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