Plantoid
Terrapath
Uncut 80点相当
The Arts Desk 60点相当
アヴァンギャルド感もあってなかなか良い感じなのだが、
trac2 含め、なんだか中途半端でどっちつかずの
ハズレ曲的なものがあって、アルバム全体としては
もったいない感じになっている。
https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/album-plantoid-terrapath
Terrapath is a prog-rock album with a large dash of jazz-rock fusion. When the styles were in their Seventies pomp, an album side could be occupied by one cut. Both sides might feature, at most, four, maybe five tracks. Yet Plantoid’s debut LP fits 10 tracks into its 39 minutes, three of which are under three minutes apiece.
This take on early Seventies archetypes, then, doesn’t cleave to a standard template. Nonetheless, songs sport shifts in time signatures, very Jan Akkerman-come-John McLaughlin guitar and jazzy drums. There is also fuzz guitar, a hard rock sensibility and a manic approach – head for second track “Pressure” as the exemplar of this. Which could mean that Plantoid are cousins of Muse. However, up to just-before its three-minute point “Modulator,” the next track, is very close to Dots and Loops-period Stereolab. There are also odd hints of Sweden’s Dungen. And then there is “Dog’s Life,” where a math rock chassis is teamed with a Sixties harmony pop-style vocal from Chloë Spence. The crisp, gentle “Only When I’m Thinking” sticks with this soft-rock approach.
ジャズとロックのフュージョンがたっぷり入ったTom Coyneのアルバム
リンカーンの大学で音楽を学んでいたときに出会った Spenceとトム・コインによってブライトンを拠点に結成されたカルテット