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Inindependence

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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!!!

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.

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?

One sure fire way to tell if an album is great is to think about how it would sound if certain portions were missing, like a guitar solo or a verse. The first time I listened to "Inindependence", I loved it, but I noticed that I kept getting distracted. So when I finally gave it a closer listen, I realized that they could eliminate an entire SONG and it would make no difference. However, they are all competent musicians, and if you work in a record store this is a great album to play. But apart from that, there is nothing remarkable here, and it's just not worth owning.

I was looking for another emo group to add to my collection when i first listened to A Minor Forest. From from then on i was hooked. The hours i spent listening to them did nothing but give me an obsession for their music. I love their ingenous rythums and incredible melodies. I rate them right up there with Roadside Monument and Frodus.