| Masters Of Reality - 'Pine/Cross Dover' (Brownhouse) |
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| CD Reviews |
| Written by Johnny H |
| Wednesday, 23 September 2009 17:18 |
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Having spent huge chunks of his musical career since the epoch making self titled Masters of Reality album flitting between producer and musician its with a very welcome to the latter this time around, and boy is this one hell of a musical journey of discovery.
Split into two segments 'Pine' and 'Cross Dover', this album is the sound of a creative genius doing what he loves and does best, and leaving his contemporaries scratching their collective goatee beards wondering just how they can follow this.
'Pine' gets things underway with some of the best songs Queens of The Stone Age never wrote in the shape of 'King Richard TLH' and 'Always', whilst stretching your imagination through tracks like 'Johnny's Dream' and 'Worm in Silk' which take you the listener outside of your usual comfort zones into the multicoloured musical tapestries that Mr Goss likes to paint.
Album closer 'Alfalfa' is really of another planet, and I'm not even going to try and describe this twelve minute plus exploration of time and space, lets just say that overall a challenging or more self rewarding album you'll not find this year.
Will everyone like it? Nah, this isn't music for everyone, it's for people like you and me.
Catch Masters of Reality when they play a series of rare live European shows this October, and tell Chris Goss 'Uber Rock sent you'.
http://www.myspace.com/mastersofrealityofficial
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