Charlie

The way I see it a crap album gets 3/10, an average album 5/10, a good album 7/10, and a superb album 9/10. I think Fairytale is a good album. It doesn't do anything new, and it does some things badly. But it does most things (the melodies, sound effects, vibe and emotion the tunes create) on most tracks right. So I think it's worth a 7. @ Cobz, I really would like to know what this album manages to do that no album before has done, because I can't hear or feel it.

Definately.

I'd be very interested to know how this is unlike anything you've seen before? I've played it 5 or 6 times now and, while good, it's certainly nothing new, 3 or 4 of the tracks are rather dull, uninspired, semi-full-on bore fests that don't even feature a proper intro or outro (how lazy is that?). Also, too many of the tracks employ a beat of too high a frequency, those cold, sharp, shallow beats. Give me warm, deep beats that you feel resonating up through the floor any day. Anyway, it certainly doesn't do anything new, and in my opinion is worthy of a 7 or 7.5 out of 10.

No. Good point.

What about those of us who discovered the tracks you mention during the 90's? We're left with today's dribbling nonsense to entertain us.

Yeah, but he definately needs those erotic angels in the background as his voice is so deep and rough. They balance it out a little.

No-one here reviews an album based on samples, surely?

Where's Cinos when we really need him? He was an expert at negativity and would have contributed greatly to this thread. People like that are essential in overly positive and optimistic crowds, they have a role to play and play it well.

We don't need your positivity polluting this thread, thank you.

You mentioned you were looking for Re:Evolution a while ago. What do you think of it? The Slinky Wizard 'James Bond' theme remix is cool, innit?

Too many to mention really, but the following are way up the list - Bob Dylan Nick Drake Tom McRae Beth Orton Gillian Welch Damien Rice Kate Rusby Led Zeppelin Hendrix The Who The Verve The Rolling Stones Tracy Chapman Bob Marley Jimmy Cliff Koko Taylor Radiohead Leonard Cohen etc..

Agreed. I've bought 4 psy albums and around 40 non-psy albums in 2006. From those, I love 90% of the non-psy albums and only 25% (1) of the psy albums. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's constantly let down and disappointed by today's psy and was beginning to wonder if I was the only psynews member who's hearing is still intact.

What about Prometheus' Nerve Centre?

I'd love a Shulman Live album. Be the cat's whiskers, it would.

You're so difficult.

You're all mad. I own all the psy trance ever to have been produced and when played sequentially, end to end, it comes to around an hour and ten minutes. Hell, I'll even list it all for you - Hallucinogen - Twisted

Oh, okay then. Should I win I'll do that.

I dislike repeating someone so soon in this thread but I think I've probably played Shulman's In Search Of a Meaningful Moment the most in 2006 too. It's a cracking CD, beautiful melodies, deep, hypnotic beats, engineering and production values are top-notch, and the final track is probably the best climax to a psy album I've heard. P.S. I don't want to be entered into the competition. Only wanted to communicate what a great album it is.

Good question.

You may well be right about the website not being ready before Xmas, time will tell. The delays regarding Twisted's albums are bloody annoying, but I feel that's why they release such great music, they have a 'it'll be ready when it's ready' philosophy. I'm sure if other artists adapted this policy their final product would prove much better instead of hasting to meet deadlines set out by record labels.

Well, he certainly infuenced you enough to claim him your hero (if only for the day).

High five, radi.

Sycophant.

Fair enough. It's just, from your posts, it seemed that you focus largely on sound quality, as if maybe it's the deciding factor in whether a tune is good or not.

You can harp on about sound quality all you like but a shiny turd is still a turd. Good music has a way of shining through poor production or engineering, just look at Bob Dylan's early tracks; the sound quality is piss-poor but people love them because they're full of soul and emotion - something fast evaporating from modern-day psy music.