Inindependence

A Minor Forest | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 31, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 8, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Thrill Jockey
• ASIN: B00000ADHH
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #434,851 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Dutch Fist

2. Erik's Budding Romance

3. Look At That Car, It's Full Of Balloons

4. ...It's Salmon!!!

5. The Smell Of Hot

6. Michael Anthony

7. Disco I Er

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff, July 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Inindependence (Audio CD)

Great to just sit and listen to. Able to function properly on computer and crank this stuff. Always something new to enjoy, have had this cd for over a year and still enjoy it dubuoiusly,
HEE-HAW, HOT DAMN!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Still....., August 6, 2008

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Adam Tollefsrud "collage" (everywhere) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inindependence (Audio CD)

I have been listening 2 this CD 4 a few years and i can sing at least dutch fist from memory. With, a little help such as humming, i could remember the rest. Timbre hollow is s00000000 awesome, i wonder what the bassist and drummer of A minor Forest could have given. i like 2 think of it with distortion at my mother's funeral. ill play the drums, bass and guitar on CD, (me playing lead) with A Minor Forest at my mother's funeral just 2 show her how much i care about everything. this music raises the dead, or sum1 like me from being a tool.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great in spurts, not so great in hindsight, July 27, 2006

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Aaron Burgess "professional music scribbler" (Round Rock, TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inindependence (Audio CD)

Like many bands whose music uses heavy dynamics and an abundance of time signatures, A Minor Forest (RIP) suffered from an unfair load of Slint comparisons while they were together. Okay, yeah -- I heard Slint in AMF's music, too, but I also heard Bartok, Stravinsky, Satie, etc., and no doubt the band members did, too. They were a shaggy crew of musical academics who stated up front that their songs were "infused with elements of classical composition." At the same time, they were straight-up rock dudes whose side gigs included a Metallica tribute act and an avant-pop band; and on Inindependence, they balanced many of the elements -- the sweetness, the darkness, the heaviness, the precision -- central to each of their inspirations. Of course, that doesn't make Inindependence any less paradoxical a record. The song titles -- ""Michael Anthony," "The Smell of Hot," "...It's Salmon!" -- are ridiculous, always in contrast to the music's complex construction and somber tone. (Thankfully, there's no lyric sheet to complicate things further.) I'm guessing here, but the theme seems to be the desegregating of high and low art -- bringing together classical and electric-rock instrumentation, juvenile humor and arch seriousness. Unfortunately, none of this keeps Inindependence from sounding self-immersed and dryly academic. The band's publishing credit on this record notes: "We cannot say we enjoy the music one bit." I get the joke, but what was the harm in trying?