Album Rating: 4.5
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Album Rating: 4.5
grieving for the loss of heaven
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This album rules but secrets is much better
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Not even mentioning manafon
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I like manafon about as much as this
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Album Rating: 4.0
Secrets of the Beehive has a very different style, so it's not that easy to compare them, but it's better yeah. I love the more organic sound on that album. Orpheus and When Poets Dreamed of Angels are amazing!!
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I love those but I think forbidden colours is my fave
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Album Rating: 5.0
secrets is slightly better but this is so.close its not even funny
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Album Rating: 4.0
Forbidden Colours is beautiful, but it doesn't really belong to the album and also it's got that 80s synthie sound that the actual songs on Secrets always manage to avoid, which is one of the main reasons why I prefer most of them.
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You're right about the synthy sound but I think it fits beautifully at the end of the record. That piano melody is glorious
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Album Rating: 4.5
besides, Forbidden Colours is on Ryuichi Sakamoto's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence album (which is absolutely essential), so it's not even part of Beehive (not even mentioning, there's like three different versions of the song) like Promise (The Cult of Eurydice) isn't part of the album.
top 3 sylvian would be
Beehive = this > Blemish
Blemish is so fucking close to the two, but The Devil's Own and Maria give Beehive the nod
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imo
manafon > secrets > this > house > blemish > etc
blemish has incredible highs but tracks 4, 6 and 7 do almost nothing for me
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Album Rating: 4.5
bummer, The Heart Knows Better is actually my favorite off Blemish
though the bits on Blemish with the wacky ass acoustic guitar is a bit overdone
plus Late Night Shopping really nails the concept of Blemish down in a short (and shockingly accessible) "anti-pop" song. Think, maybe, like "Pop Song"?
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i *know* "the heart knows better" is the most catchy song, but it only puts me off, i'm not sure why. "late night shopping" is not too bad, but it's not exactly "blemish"/"she is not"/"the only daughter" level. the whacky guitar parts are great, although i think fred frith would have been a far better choice (bailey is an important pioneer but tbh his improv skill is so far from frith it's not even funny). the only thing i would really like from blemish is to mix the electronics and the acoustics in a single song, but on the other hand the separation is also part of the charm.
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Album Rating: 4.5
i believe there was a remix album for Blemish and Manafon, maybe those would be up your alley
also, Sylvian did an album with Stephan Mathieu called Wandermude, which reworked Blemish entirely. also, it's entirely instrumental from what I've read
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Album Rating: 4.5
however, no acoustic on this album
it's moreso closer to drone/ambient than anything
Sylvian chose to work with him after hearing what he did with Plight and Premonition, the collaboration between Sylvian and Holger Czukay
http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2013-01-06/stephan-mathieu-david-sylvian-wandermude/
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Album Rating: 4.5
tvc tyler where you at
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i've heard wandermude and manafon variations. the former is good, the latter has great originals but the rearrangements are rather weak, unnecessary. can't find the blemish ones anywhere unfortunately (i'm a stupid kid that can't get soulseek to work)
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Album Rating: 4.5
it's showing up for me when i put it under "the good son vs the only daughter"
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Is it brilliant as in intelligent or brilliant as in giving off light?
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