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CHRISTUS & THE COSMONAUGHTS - FROM ATOP THIS HILL (BETA LACTAM RING RECORDS) |
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If Pink Floyd and Edward Ka-Spel of the Whispering Pink Dots had a baby who grew up to write music that shifted from song organica to hookbeat electronica, then you would have something along the lines of Christus & The Cosmonaughts. Compared to what's up in mainstream musical America, this is off the beaten path, though we're still in the world of overall traditional song structures. Moody songs drift through the land of the vocalist's rhyme-intense lyrical depression and shift into stretches of fairly infectious electronic music. Most will find it original and quite different and a few might even find it accessible and appealing. It's not difficult to listen to for mainstream sensibilities, I don't think, even if it won't reach out and grab everybody. From the perspective of a well-schooled experimental listener, however, especially somebody whose had their ears tuned into Beta-lactam Ring Records for more than a minute, "From Atop the Hill" will actually offer a lot of familiarity. Besides the insistent if oblique aural references to Floydian songcraft, Christus & The Cosmonaughts follow - during the vocal and more organic darkwave-ish segments, anyway - in the footsteps of the likes of The Whispering Pink Dots and Edward Ka-Spel. The electronica passages have more in common with music the average joe might have encountered, but it works nicely in its non-trad context.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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