Naked Lunch 30 Years in Beyond Planets (Album Review of Beyond Planets)

It's always a pleasure to receive music for radioplay.  When you get this kind of work, it's like, oooo, I have the album.
This album embodies 30 years of work. The band have released singles in the past, but prefered not to  releasing anything.  How wrong their were.  Even Tony the singer realised this as he mentioned in the first interview i did with him and Jet on the radio
The combination of re recorded classics, blowing the dust of lyrics, unfinished demos and brand new recordings, comes the long awaited electro album, that's looooong overdue

I was suprised how well the rerecordings turned out, especially Rabies, which already has two versions The re recording are, La Femme, Rabies, Fade Away, Weekend, Behaviour and Slipping Again.
The new songs are, Alone, Glow, We Are, Emotion Terminal( Quiet apt that one i should think),

No two ways about it, this is a huge undertaking, even by this legendary bands standards.
Bringing them up to date with new recordings, is not easy.
But, there was a. cunning plan......

When the new recordings began to merge, i liked Alone, as it signals, what the modern sound of Naked Lunch represented and has hidden layers.  We Are, is the bands, what I call "Underworld epic" tune.  coming in at over 7 minutes, its a good length, minimal, great intro and just a fine tune. It has a simular vein to,Technomancer, remix of Glow, but not as dark. The album needed to break the 4 minute length with this tune and electro needs to breath.  I got thrown by what appear to be two version of Slipping again. I thought one was a rerecording and one a remix of the rerecording. Turns out, they are two different songs..
The running order suprised me, assumming they would start with, Rabies, as it is the re recordings of their well known tune. Turns out, they open with the epic, We Are,  I bet they thought "Let's shock the world"
As a whole, well executed, well re recorded, a great electronic album for your collection. A New Nacked Lunch album for a modern world and show the masses how the masters do it.
The album is also the turning point with the band with new member, Jet Noir, having her influence, and in a way, one of the focus points to forge ahead

To reunite after so long, come up with an album, combining the elements above and not long making people realise who you are and fans of your previous work waiting in the wings, is rare and they nailed it 
As the label title points, Evolve or Die. This is an album to buy and listen to before you do and really, when the band had to do


Dj Readman

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The History of Record Shops

Image
Since I have been helping to promote local record shops Strummer Room Records and new Mac’s Music Store here in Banbury  (One way of being involved), It occurred to me that not much attention historically is being paid towards record shops.  As a former owner of record shop Demand  Records ( still dabble with online vinyl album sales)(I miss it like crazy), I thought I would focus on this.  I realised recently that my shop is a part of. Over the decades there have been independent and chain stores. Depends where you live. The starting point is Banbury, who knows where this may lead?  I have decided to make this journey broader.  I thought to myself I am bound to get asked at some point. At the moment this is a few blogs and the start of an ongoing series on Youtube. This may lead to a documentary at some point. But not getting too far ahead of myself.                                                      Picture of Strummer Room Recorfs Strummer Room Records ( 4 years walk in and online
Read more

Finally, i can now play vinyl records again on radio

Before the headlines, an update.... Co Presenter The radio variety show has always been able to evolve or move in various directions. Reason for the difficult task of finding a good name for the show In April 2015, i found a co presenters, Educational publisher and graphic designer, Darren Coles. We began messing about on radio, and wanted to come up with a duo name. For some reason, animals come into conversation and we ended up with, Dog and Crow. I am Dog and Darren is Crow. Partly the reason, for this is because, Darren, can do a wicked, Crow sound and i can do a Dog one Show HQ has moved again A place i have been waiting for over a year finally landed. My father knew of a couple who were to rent a house. I was in the position to move in, but heard nothing for long time. Then the chess pieces fell into place, hired a van to move the gear and we landed into new HQ, beginnig of November 2015 Improvements Darren has a technical mind. He has gear, has been in bands and can se
Read more

The travel guide of Fun For Louis, aka Louis Cole

Back in the day, when TV and traveling around the world to different places was kind of everywhere, it was really entertaining, This has all but gone from the main British channels. One TV series that stood out was " The Rough Guide" taking you to the non tourist area's, well places where they allowed TV cameras That was the 1990s, now fast forward to 2014/2015 Youtube is now the place for many people to watch, essentially, TV. At the start, Youtube is not what it is now. However, more people are vlogging ( Short for video blog), comedy and documentaries. I am not a fan of collecting loads of people on Youtube and subscribing, as there is a lot of channels with the same stuff. You have, revewers, technology and gaming, which does get tedious after a while. It takes something good to grab my attention and one such person, from Surrey, England. is Louis Cole Although his, Youtube, life didn't start out daily vlogging or travelling, it is now the content he
Read more