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Originally Posted by koolthing78
-Speaking of headphones, Calming the Snake takes on a whole new life through them. The guitar in the left ear that comes in after the lone bass line is actually playing notes (albeit noisy, disguised ones)--and awesome ones at that. And the way they introduce one guitar in the right ear, then the one in the middle, then the one in the left (and I LOVE that "bum-buuum bum-buuum- buuuuuum" thing) allows you to hear the individual and seemingly disparate things going on, which makes the fact that they all work together that much more exciting. Noise here is not a substitution for structure--it is the foundation for it (not completely unlike Blonde Redhead's "Symphony of Treble")
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I only noticed that (the guitar in the left ear) on the third time of listening to it. I guess that's why I'm reserving my judgement until it's released on CD.
My initial thoughts were: a strong album, with lots of individually good songs (and some great ones, i.e., Anti-Orgasm being my favourite) - my only reservation being that it doesn't seem like a unified body of songs like previous albums: the early albums (particularly Bad Moon Rising) and the Jim Or Rourke three are obviously unified because they have a loose concept, use fragments of sound to progress from one song to another; and even the songs on Dirty and Rather Ripped are unified to an extent because the albums have a distinctive guitar-tone – this seems to be lacking from The Eternal (though now I’m more familiar with the songs, I’m not sure if it’s a problem for me).