 | Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
4.1
excellent
| Ranking: #141 for 2006 | |
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| 4.5 superb | EasterInTheBatcave | August 10th 16 |
A less immediate record than Choirs of the Eye, but it's along similar lines: lots of genres blended together and experimented with in a mostly lengthy song format. Featured are death-defying vocal screaming excursions ("Gemini Becoming the Tripod"), abrupt lo-fi breakdowns ("Aura on an Asylum Wall"), and repetitious sludge metal ("___on Limpid Form"). This is a difficult, demanding album, but it opens up after multiple listens.
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| 4.5 superb | poopwrangler | February 23rd 09 |
Dark voodoo magic that gives nightmares to the mormon church. I play this album when I want to prove to my friends I'm better than them.
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| 4.0 excellent | Iluvatar | December 26th 06 |
maudlin/Kayo Dot continue to grow with this release, which sees a larger shift away from their metal influences and into a more free form category. However, the songs are all still just as epic and gripping as ever; and right from the start you see how much more of a sustained kickass this is than its contemporaries.
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| 1.0 awful | Hot Bowser | January 27th 24 |
what a waste of time holy shit
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| 3.0 good | birdmusiclog | January 7th 22 |
2006. In relation to Choirs of the Eye, Dowsing Anemone leans further toward the anything-music of In The Library Loft. This album has many of those wonderful moments where sound is just completely controlled.
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| 5.0 classic | fran tall ear | October 31st 21 |
floaty and thoughtful, anemone rarely constrains itself to any type of rigid song structure 'cos there's endless beauty to be doodled in the margins. the tunes are cleverly arranged and you'll breathe in harmony with them through every well-earned interval, intense despite their looseness. one of those rare albums that never wears off me, no matter how familiar or recently played
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| 4.0 excellent | SinNanna | May 14th 20 |
Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue can be seen as a sort of more heavy sounding nephew record to Choirs Of The Eye, in that it still plays a lot with those prog metal aesthetics that Toby explored so brilliantly on his maudlin of the Well project, but approaches it from a different, more downtrodden and patient angle. This record opens up with very slow and brooding black and death metal inspired passages that feature some of Toby Driver's most manic vocal performances yet which later in the tracklist is balanced out with very melancholic, jazzy and more atmospheric, post rock-y passages as well. Dowsing sounds at times bitter and unhinged like on Gemini Become The Tripod, other times very pondering and exhausted like on the very post-metal sounding On Limpid Form, and sometimes equally pondering but also beautifully sad like on Immortelle And Paper Caravelle. This album does require a bit of a more attentive ear as there is almost nothing immediate or instantly gratifying about it like some Kayo Dot records actually are, for me personally at least. The last two tracks can meander maybe a little too long with its 18 and 14 minute runtime, but even considering that it is a definite highlight in their discograpy and one that you should check out if you're only interested in checking a few albums from Kayo Dot's lengthy catalogue.
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| 5.0 classic | 2ool | December 2nd 19 |
but amaranth the peddler waxes poetic to mnemosyne
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| 5.0 classic | iao | August 9th 16 |
My favorite Kayo Dot album for sure. Taking some ideas from Choirs and delving even further into experimentation, the aesthetic emanating from this album is impeccable.
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| 4.0 excellent | Your Favorite Lurker | May 24th 16 |
please notice me, toby driver. PLEASE NOTICE ME TOBY DRIVER ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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| 0.0 | Lambda | August 5th 14 |
The problem with Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue is that drags at times. "___On Limped Form" takes too long to end and "Amaranth the Peddler" takes too long to get going, causing the latter part of the record to grind to a halt for a while. "Aura on an Asylum Wall" is absolutely fantastic, however, and the vocal excursions on "Gemini Becoming the Tripod" are superb. Perhaps my perspective will change upon further listening (this feels like a grower album to me), but as of now Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue is an avant-garde record that doesn't TOTALLY satisfy, despite moments of brilliance. 4.5
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| 5.0 classic | Jruined | October 21st 10 |
This beast keeps growing on me with every listen. It's been almost 5 years since it was released, I wasn't blown away by it initially but I keep finding new things to enjoy when I load the tracks and veg out.
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| 0.0 | Bitchfork | September 27th 10 |
I'm trying to put into words how beautiful Kayo Dot's first two albums are and I'm failing tremendously. By admitting how much of a failure the fucking English language as a whole is to not have something for Kayo Dot (no, beautiful is not hyperbolic enough), I hope you understand that they really are that curmgluhlishuggin.
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| 3.5 great | EatThatPhonebook | June 16th 10 |
After their astonishing and beautiful debut, Kayo Dot reach a different sound and style, creating a less beautiful and more tense atmosphere in all of their songs here. Many times this album has been acclaimed, even in this site, but many times it tends to be forgotten and underrated. Personally, I think it's a great album that should be a little more loved.
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