Chemical Playschool 10 (Legendary Pink Dots)

Craig Wilson <cjwilson@pol.net>

I'm listening to the new CP10 as I jot down my impressions of my pilgrimage
to Columbus for The LPD gig. CP10 is instantly loveable and one of their
strongest releases - not having Hallway yet its so nice to here some new
work.

Track 1 - scarlet wish - a beautiful harpsichordy waltz with attitude

Track 2 - Inside - a mushy guitar mantra quite progedelic and v impressive

Track 3 - Colour wheel - more subdued, melancholy and reminiscent of
earlier works

4 - Disaster Area - starts like a jazz fusion combo that descends into a
trippy dub/ambient groove with nice lead guitar (instr)

5 - Nouveaux Modes Exotiques - drum and basss with soaring space rock noise
and trickles of synth - kind of sounds like a didgeridoo in there somewhere!
(some backwards vocals at the end otherwise instr).

6+7 Glasshouse - chilling church organ with like a synth sound from X-files
soundtrack (sorry first thing that comes to mind)and distorted spoken Ed)-
absolutely sumptuous - it'll bring tears to yer eyes.

8 The man with the Cut-Glass heart - a driving synth base beat , SFX and
instantly catching tune, again reminds me of circa tower era tune with
futuristic backing which leads into ?mandolin lead.

9 A crack in time - sounds almost Glam to me - loose vocals over heavy drum
and dare I say almost grundgy guitar - but its also one hot track.

10 Kleine Juliet - dreamy guitar (? some slide) melds into an almost Steve
Reich guitar phrase.

11 Saucers#1- Ed says "The saucers are coming - we do not have everything
under control..". Backwards vocals again set to a gorgeous piece that is
beyond description.

12 Premonition 19 - ~8 mins.I can't say if there are any borrowed themes
from other Prems as I've honestly not delved deeply into them (slap me
down). It definitely has the experimental prem feel like an alternate
dimension. Very good to astral travel to. Nice use of digital delay guitar.

13. Wonderdome - Ed cha-chas in the background while speaking about a
utopia. Short track - no wait after 4 mins silence the drums crank up and
Ka-Spel yells "don't throw your crisps packet at me you alien bastard!".
For some reason Glasshouse is spread over track 6+7?

Rex <richwill@xsite.net>