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Into The Great Wide Yonder

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Simple Review: Dark, beautiful, rich and complex. Another beautifully imagined album from the artist known as Trentemøller. The only way to listen to this album for the first time is to sit back, relax and listen to it from beginning to end. A must have album for already existing fans, a must have for fans of new.

are the three touchstone that keep coming to mind while listening to Into the Great Wide Yonder. This is a completely different direction from the icy minimalism of Last Resort. The aggro-tempos, distorted surf guitar, and sheer darkness of the record suggest an industrial-goth club, and the winter ambience and beautiful little melodies of pieces like Moan are completely absent. The one moment of hesitance in the first eight tracks is the haunting, heartbreaking Sycamore Feeling. Otherwise, we're thrown into a hellish, driving, menacing soundscape with no room to breathe until the final two pieces, Neverglade and Tide, which still lack the sparseness of his earlier work. This is an artistic, interesting album, no doubt, and will have its fans, but lovers of the Last Resort should take warning: this will be an utterly foreign world.

what i wanted, was not damaged, tracking, inside two weeks delivery, i got two items, two more words to make twenty, nuff said!!!

I've really enjoyed this album, almost ridiculously so, since I got it so I decided it would be helpful to potential listeners like me to boost the rating and give you a reason to check it out. First off, Last Resort was amazing and no one is going to argue this is the same music; it's rather the ORIGIN point of this album. It comes from thick, downtempo beats and rips open in the first track "The Mash and the Fury". After that it's folly to expect a regression to old ways. This is a new album, new experience, and new music and it lies parallel to Last Resort, not trapped within it. The artist changes over a timeline as they synthesize experience and manifest a mirror of it in their art; such is the case with Trentemoller and who can begrudge him growth? Some tracks tickle my subjective rhythm bone more than others, but as a whole this is a fantastic electronica album worth at least one trip through.

Ok, so I have got tickets for Lowlands (all 60.000 sold out within 1,5 hour!). And then I learned that one of the acts playing will be Trentemøller. Since I am not so much of the dance generation, I only knew this name from the dance-section of the musical library. Not realy knowing his music. Around me people started to say how wonderfull it was, seeing him at Lowlands. Well what can you do in these circumstances?

Now having bought this CD and listened for a number of times, I am getting to like this very much. The first song is somewhat dark but I realy love this one from the first time on. For the rest? Well what can I say. It is played over and over again in our home. And this is not only because I like it myself. The rest of the family seems to do so too.

I can't wait to see Trentemøller at Lowlands by now!!!

This album sounds like a nine inch nails knockoff with corny vocals. It is nothing like the solitary and deep music of his previous album. If you LOVE his first album you'll probably HATE this one.

Tarentino would love this album..I do not.

I really wish Trentemoller would have stuck with the style he created with "Le Champagne" and "In Progress". Now he seems misguided and confused...