...And The Circus Leaves Town
Kyuss does experiment a bit with slightly different approaches to their traditional sound, but make no mistake about it though -- this is without a doubt full on Kyuss. Songs like Hurricane and El Rodeo get you out of your seat while songs like Phototropic work well for just sitting back and staring off into space.
A glowing review appeared in a recent issue of Addicted To Noise. Definitely worth the read.
Another excellent review appeared in the student newspaper of the University of Waterloo. The description of Kyuss as a band and where they fit in the musical universe is particularly insightful. Short to download, worth the read.
The playing time on the album is 72 minutes but about 20 minutes of that is silence.
The last song Spaceship Landing is an 11 minute epic but the track shows up as being about 34 minutes long. At the end of the song there is about 3 minutes of silence, 20 seconds of some weird sounding singing/noises, about 17 minutes more of (very annoying) silence and then there's the song Day One . The song Day One is supposedly dedicated to Kris and Dave (Grohl) of Nirvana (possibly in tribute to Kurt Cobain).
Catamaran is listed as copyright Yawningman, which rumor has it is the band that Alfredo Hernandez (drummer) belonged to before Kyuss. Mario Lalli also gets credit for Spaceship Landing. The "Madman of Encino" gets partial credit on some vocals though which ones aren't specified.
The inside of the CD liner notes has a bunch of pictures of some deserted and sinking town. There's also a picture taken by Josh, though I don't have it scanned in.
The CD itself has a slightly difficult to see picture of the band playing. I scanned the picture in and used some image processing filters to enhance it so you can actually see the image. John is in his usual pose (at least from the times I've seen them play). Scott is picking his bass way up near the frets and is barefoot (of course). Unfortunately the side of the CD with Josh on it didn't come out.
The British metal magazine Kerrang! gave a track by track review of the new album. I'm not so sure I agree with some of their assesments of the new album, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
