Viscera by Jenny Hval [via Ste "Rincewind" phen]
Sorry, Stephen. I'm about to disappoint you.
Viscera came with very high praise. Having been placed at number one on Stephen's top 50 2011 albums list, obviously no small achievement, I was hoping to be blown away, or at least very impressed. Unfortunately, what I got was a very wispy 40ish minutes of little intrigue and less excitement. Maybe this is a flaw of my listening method, which favors general impressions and divided attention over close analysis and complete focus. Maybe there's some fantastic stanzas dropped over the sparse, subtle instrumentation that just passed me by, but I don't really believe a work can be carried on lyrics alone anyway. As it stands, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to launch into that all-to-common refrain: I mean it's okay I guess probably a lot of people would like it and I don't hate it but (say it with me now) it's not really my thing.
>> gloomp