Review: Mixed by Nik Chinboukas whose recording credits include Testament and Metal Allegiance, and mastered by Thomas Dimuzio, LOUD brings you four new Doctor Nerve tunes (and 11 bonus tracks) that are as aggressive as they are intricate. At first blush, LOUD seems to have much in common with what the group was doing a quarter-century ago – the horns wailing over power chords, the tightly-composed overlapping structures, as well as a general irreverence that comes across as a bunch of serious musicians just having fun with doing the unexpected. The album consists of four main tracks, each 3 to 6 minutes in length. Nonetheless, it is not an EP. Instead, there are one, two, or three alternative mixes of each track featuring different guest musicians adding guitar solos. These individuals include Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Robert Musso, Kevin Hufnagel, René Lussier, Andrew Hawkins, Matt Hollenberg, and Shawn Persinger. As a consequence, when listening to LOUD, there is a fair amount of repetition, and the album is best thought of as a substrate for more active listening rather than background music. If You Were Me Right Now I’d Be Dead blasts off aggressively with outside blowing and dense patterns over weaponized heavy guitar. Painting with Bullets focuses on rhythmic complexity and centers around staccato piano chords. Meta 04 takes the rhythm in even more twisted and convoluted directions and couples it with guitar and horn flourishes and atmospherics. Uses Probe Form is another densely contrapuntal piece with active bass and piano work under horn and guitar solos. And that’s just the initial takes – each of the aforementioned guitarists add their own flavors in the additional cuts.
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Media Report: Genre: jazz, prog-rock Source: CD Format: FLAC Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM Bit rate mode: Variable Channel(s): 2 channels Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz Bit depth: 16 bits
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FILE LIST
Filename
Size
01 - If You Were Me Right Now I'd Be Dead.flac
27 MB
02 - Painting With Bullets.flac
28.3 MB
03 - Meta 04.flac
20.6 MB
04 - Uses Probe Form.flac
38 MB
05 - Meta 01.A.flac
886.2 KB
06 - If You Were Me Right Now I'd Be Dead, with Matt Hollenberg.flac
26.1 MB
07 - Meta 01.B.flac
784.8 KB
08 - Painting With Bullets, with Mike Keneally.flac
27.6 MB
09 - Meta 01.C.flac
821.6 KB
10 - Painting With Bullets, with Andrew Hawkins.flac
27.4 MB
11 - Meta 01.D.flac
990.8 KB
12 - Painting With Bullets, with René Lussier.flac
27.4 MB
13 - Meta 01.E.flac
809.1 KB
14 - Meta 04, with Henry Kaiser.flac
21.3 MB
15 - Meta 04, with Kevin Hufnagel.flac
20 MB
16 - Uses Probe Form, with Robert Musso.flac
36.5 MB
17 - Uses Probe Form, with Shawn Persinger Is Prester John.flac