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Goran Janicijevic (03.02.2004)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this album.
It is certanly tongue-in-cheek, but is not mockery. It is certainly a stretch
to make parallel between beginning of 20-th century and 21-st century,
but it is not pretentious. The impressionism and drum'n'bass interweave
in a great manner. The "ambientness" of it presents Debussy's
music appropriately... Whatever you claim here, I could say the opposite,
but...
...don't take this as a "personal attack". ;-) I guess (and you
confirmed it somewhere between the lines), you had great expectations of
this album, and a deadline of three days, to listen it three times, and
to make the Art Of Noise case closed. When I bought this one three years
ago, I didn't expect too much of it, since I wasn't some fan of AON, or
Messieur Debussy. But I considered their music to be interesting. So was
this album in the beginning... but with repeated listenings today it is
among my top 10 picks.
There, I had to defend The Seduction.... ;-)
[Special
author note: A correction - while I did indeed
expect more than I actually got, I had absolutely no 'three-day deadline'
for this album, because I do not set any 'deadlines' at this particular
moment. Rather I would put it like that: it took me exactly three days
to understand that this album is and always will be a boring crock
of shit for me, no matter what happens. And, to tell the truth, that sort
of thing very rarely happens to me.]
Luke Mitchell (22.06.2004)
Dear Creator Of The Above Reviews,
I haven't the faintest idea what you mean by sucks "beyond the slightest
possibility of redemption". I believe that you must have not a screw
loose but an entire piece of your brain absent to think that seduction
is how you described it. It is beautifully and eerily composed as any other
album. I think I speak for everyone when I say that you go more than a
little in depth with your analogies and comparisons. Furthermore, I don't
know what the hell you mean by "I'm still waiting for something to
happen!" in the No Sense Nonsense review. Did you just put
headphones on while playing the record or simply plug your ears and chant
"LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!" during side one. The whole album is happening,
cool, groovy, however you say it. It is easily my favourite album. Please
don't silence this review the same way my lit. teacher did with my report
on media in the pubilc school system. Thank you
Dave W. (12.07.2004)
The Art of Noise used to be my favorite band of
all time. They are still my third favorite after The Fall and The Minutemen.
I bring this up to demonstrate that I am not a fan of techno or jungle
or acid house or drum'n'bass or anything like that. I like the rock, mostly
the punk rock. Yet I love The Art Of Noise somehow. I don't think anyone
has really followed up on what they accomplished on their first coupla
records -- hopefully someday someone will. Anyway, your review of Seduction
is so righteous. It is a bad record and reading your review is the first
positive Seduction . . . LP related experience I have had.
Side note: I don't really like the lumping in of the Beatbox ep
review with Daft LP. Woulda been better to review Beatbox
instead of Daft. One great thing about the Beatbox ep is
that it is a lot more cohesive than Who's Afraid, yet with a fun
quotient equally elevated. It is a better record, actually, and deserves
its own treatment. Also, you may want to take another listen to The Buggles
Adventures In Modern Recording lp -- it has some Horn / Langan /
Jeczalik interludes that I actually consider as Art of Noise segments,
even though this LP came out in 1981. A pre more cursor even than the "Owner
of a Lonely Heart" 12 inch that is reputed as the "official"
precursor of Art of Noise.