Customer Reviews

Passages

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This album starts off well enough, but tracks 5 and 6 are awful, and the last track sounds too reminiscent of the beginning of "Where the Streets Have No Name." At their best, Maserati sounds a bit like early Radiohead or "Z"-era My Morning Jacket, but with better drumming. However, tracks 5 and 6 on "Passages" are techno/electronica songs, and bad, tedious ones at that. If you are buying your first Maserati album, purchase "Language of Cities" instead. It's much better than this CD.

It's been a long wait and finally the new stuff has arrived. I would give the album a 5 star rating but it is really only an EP. I like remixes but prefer a full album. The wait has been long because I have been listening to the reduced quality on their myspace page and Monoliths is only an excerpt.

What can be said? I was hooked from the first time I heard Monoliths. It fits into the scheme nicely and returns via a remix by Steve Moore(Zombi).
Listening to Passages is like going on some sort of trip that takes you up rapidly and drifts you down easy. It has returning melodies within each song that seems to drift over top
strong percussion and sparse bass all played out in great conviction. It leaves me feeling victorious. I find it hard to describe in words. Let the music speak for itself.