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You Go Now

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I love this album. There is so much going on, and yet it's all very subtle. It is electronica, but warm and organic sounding. Some of it is pop music. It is music to drive to at night. It is densely layered, but full of space (sonically speaking).

Kevin Moore collaborated with Steve Tushar on this one. Steve programmed the beats and co-produced - I honestly thought at least some of the the programmed drums were live until I read otherwise. Kevin plays bass and lays on the keyboards and samples. Some of the nice touches include the use of a vocoder, and vinyl hum sampled off a Neil Young record. Dave Iscove rounds off the album with some sparse but warm guitar work - check out his wah pedal work on track 3.

I enjoy the singing and lyrics, and sampling, because they are often about such banal and mundane things; Kevin has written a couple of songs about, really, nothing.

I would say this album epitomizes what I look for in richness of sound, subtle syncopations, songwriting, and musical "space". Buy this album, play it in your car and drive somewhere.

This album is one of the best that I have purchased in a long time. If you like to "space out" this is the album for you. Kevin Moore did a fantastic job mixing the music with the strange but fitting samples. Definetly a space theme in this cd, but it is worth buying, without a doubt.

This album is all about atmosphere. There's some excellent musicianship present, some quality composition, and some intriguing lyrics, but in the end this album is about eliciting an emotion. It's music for driving alone, late at night, halfway through a long journey.

There are no bad songs on this disc, and removing any of them would lessen the album's impact. The first track serves as a moody, sweeping introduction, immediately setting the tone for the rest of the album. The second track introduces the other half of the album's sound, the more ambient half, and it's full speed ahead from there. "Lunar" is spectacular, a bossa nova take on the Crystal Method's "High Roller," if you can imagine that. "Please Hang Up" is absurdly bizzare, but is also achingly beautiful. "Astronaut Down" is the last anthemic blast, and the album winds down with "You Go Now," a perfect echo of everything that's come before. It's hard to imagine an album better suited to a lonely night on the interstate.

This is not a perfect album, but it's closer than I could come. If you plan on driving through Iowa at about 10 PM in the near future, this is a must-own.

Being a big Dream Theater fan, I naturally listened to "Dead Air For Radios" when it was released. That was a very good album, and in a way my introduction to electronica. Now some years hence, I am a wannabe one-man musician, and I can say this for sure, "You Go Now" inspires me to write music. The mood, the hooks, the lo-fi drums, the intelligent sampling are all wonderful. Listening to songs like "Lunar" made me go back and listen to "Space Dye Vest" from Dream Theater's "Awake", and it seems like a natural progression, and an indication of perhaps why Kevin left. In the end that decision worked out for everyone as DT got my favorite keyboard player (Jordan Rudess) to handle that chore, while Kevin is now a great writer of intelligent, spacey electronica, and mere mortals like me get to enjoy both.

I am amazed that "You Go Now" has not received wider acclaim, since this is one of the best albums of the past few years. I can't wait to hear what the OSI project sounds like.

I never dug Dream Theater, from which Kevin Moore went solo to form Chroma Key, and frankly I don't recall how I stumbled across this album. It might've been an "If you like this, you might also like this" suggestion from Amazon or somewhere. I can't say. I wish I could, because I'm indebted to whoever-or whatever-recommended it to me.

The presence of a band name is deceptive: There really isn't one. This 2000 release is almost entirely the work of Moore. The album is a follow-up to 1998's "Dead Air For Radio," which has its moments-especially the closing track "Hell Mary"-but is not nearly the equal of this atmospheric masterpiece. In fact, "Hell Mary" might've been more at home here, because it fits in with the general coldness-of-space, ambient-prog aesthetic that runs through this entire record.

"You Go Now" combines a remarkable sense of brooding and mood-it's no wonder Moore's gone on to do soundtrack work-with smart, languid melodies that pull you in after repeated listening. My personal favorite is "Another Permanent Address," and I would suggest this as a place to start if you're checking out song samples online. There is also a sense of foreboding in much of the lyrical content, though the album is not without a sense of humor: "Please Hang Up" has such a spacy, haunting quality that I had to hear it several times before I realized that the caller is dialing emergency, only to be told that the number has been changed. There's also this perfectly judged description of the awkwardness of returning to single life from "Astronaut Down:" "I found myself back in the bachelor scene...Feel like an astronaut in a submarine." How can you not buy an album with a lyric like that?

Prog fans, stop here and buy. You will not be disappointed. Dream Theater fans, on the other hand, might want to take note: Mr. Moore has stepped far afield from his former gig. This sounds nothing like it. I'm not trying to discourage you, I'm just lettin' you know.

I enjoyed Chroma Key's first CD, Dead Air for Radio. I first heard it at a friend's house, and got hooked on the track "Untertow." I was eagerly expecting Kevin's second album, and was not the least bit disappointed. I would say that is is in the same vein as of DAFR, but with a whole new different concept. Chroma Key is nothing similar to Dream Theater, and will appeal to a whole different crowd. I am so glad I found that band. If you are looking for a new listening experience, get that CDs. You can download their entire first album, and many track out of the second album on their website...By the way I am not at all affiliated to the band, but I thought you would be interested to know.

Chroma Key's first album, "Dead Air for Radios", was a dark moody album that had NOTHING to do with Dream Theater (Moore is an ex-member of that band). It mixed ambient soundscapes with songs in a pretty unique way, making an album that was almost trance-like.

This new album, "You Go Now", keeps the same style as DAFR had, but this time the ambient part is more dominant than the songs. If you liked the quieter sections of DAFR, chances are that you will like "You Go Now" too.

Again: this isn't a prog-metal album, so don't expect any reminiscence of Dream Theater.

Kevin once again proves what a musical genious he is. The songs
are rich in sound, tempo, and lyrics. Buyer beware though, this
is NO Dream Theater CD. The songs are subtle, yet explode with
a rich layered sound. I eagerly await new material.

I think this is a path that kevin moore needed to follow since "a change of sesons", you could feel in in "space die vest".
This is a great album, ideal for sitting back and smoking a cigarette, i hope Kevin gets the credit he deserves for in

For some reason, this release reminds me of the work Alan Parsons was doing in the 70s, only it is updated for the new millennium. The lead singer and prominent keyboards are strikingly similar to the sound of the Comsat Angels, one of the most overlooked bands of the '80s.

Chroma Key marries outstanding musical chops with spacy samples and soundscapes. This album is superb and devoid of trends. Highly recommended.