The
UK based band, Cranium Pie are back with a new double vinyl record on the
amazing Fruits der Mer label. This time around the band cranks out 4 album side
long tracks, none with song titles. The track glides along with a nice spacey
Fender Rhodes piano that you follow along the drum machine and a disturbing
guitar that pops in at specific intervals and then about 3½ mins the whole
things turns violet as the vocals return and you go back to the main theme.
This fades out and a new section returns with a distorted organ like on
Brainticket as a new track beginnings. The organ and keyboard remain the main focus
for some time. The third movement or track on side A has a repeated synth loop
and more programmed like drums and lots of weirdness until the guitar and voice
kicks in. Now we are at 14 mins and there has been very little guitar before
this point but now he wants to play a bit! Track 2 is once again a collage of
3-4 different tracks-ideas that have a different pull. This one is a bit more
jazzy and has more guitar as well but also a lot of far our movements and
pieces. The organ dominates at the end as the spoken word samples returns. Track
3 starts off with a really funky guitar and groove but sadly it fades away into
strangeness all too fast as you feel as if something terrible is going to
happen next……….. disco?..No… just some samples, circus music and then…. Anyway,
this record has surprises around every corner and is a very cool and
interesting listen. I enjoyed it a lot the three times I have heard it now… If
you dig the first Brainticket and Polytoxicmane Philharmonie, and Soft Machine
all mixed together you will dig this.
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