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Review: 'Necks, The'
'Vertigo'   

-  Album: 'Vertigo' -  Label: 'ReR Megacorp'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Catalogue No: 'RER NECKS 11'

Our Rating:
Over the course of a career spanning 17 previous albums, The Necks have established themselves as sonic explorers with a knack for nuance. Described as a ‘kaleidoscopic tone poem’, ‘Vertigo’ marks another welcome and compelling addition to their intriguing catalogue. A single long-form piece with a 45-minute duration, ‘Vertigo’ ventures forth with a view to charting new territories and scaling new heights, or, moreover, reconsidering obscure terrains from different perspectives.

The piano tinkles discordantly, but distant, over a long, ominous hum. Chimes burst in shattering shards, like chandeliers crashing to the ground… clattering, ringing alarms that drill into your cranium… slowly morphing whale-song…. Gradually, the piece unfurls, revealing new perspectives, new facets and new dimensions. Where ‘Vertigo’ succeeds where many exploratory instrumental works fail is in the way it keeps the listener engaged and transports them though a shifting soundscape to the end.

The Necks Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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