The eight album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, violin, keyboards, flute and vocals.
Every time I open up an album from this band, I wonder if the music will be good or hell. Too many albums has been hell up to now.
Their discography has been wildly uneven, in other words.
This time around, we get a double album, eighty-two minutes worth of music.
The music is psych rock with some strong space rock and folk rock influences. There are also an electronica avant-garde piece here who does not do much other than serving as a break so the listener can make some coffee/tea/water. Or go to the toilet. That is the only reason I can see for that electronica bit.
The vocals are all in English despite of the Nowegian album title. The music is pretty mature and there is none of this wild Daevid Allen like stuff you get on some of their other albums. This album gives us some serious sounding music. No humour here.
The vocals is good but some of the material is on the more anonymous side and pretty pedestrian. Despite of that, this is still a good album. Not as good as I wanted it to be, but still a good album. The flutes, organ sound and the folk rock influences are this album's saving grace.
This is an album well worth checking out if Scandinavian psych and folk rock is your thing.
3 points
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