Robert Fripp and David Sylvian - Firepower
Sorry, sorry, I'm back to spamming the thread up with them again.
I'm detecting a very interesting pattern on 'The First Day' (album) now - there are at least 3 songs that, rather than following a typical song structure, start with fractured-rhythm-and-vocal-poetry-based 2-3 minutes, and then move into an overwhelmingly texturist 3-10 minutes of abstract instrumentals. Pattern though it may, I find this approach to songwriting absolutely incredible. First you're assaulted with a more 'hookable', if still very odd, song, and then you get this amazing rhythmical soundscape develop. In fact, another track, 'Darshan', drops the song part entirely and delves into 17 (!) minutes of pure texturism.
I honestly can't say I've heard another album like this. It would be impossible to make an AMV to directly relate the sense that most of these songs give ('Firepower', '20th Century Dreaming' and 'Darshan', and to a lesser extent 'Brightness Falls'; not to mention the completely un-doable 'Bringing Down The Light').
But this is increasingly edging it's way upward on my favorite albums list.
In fact, shockingly enough, I may soon find KC albums left for lesser spots as 'The First Day' and its' live successor 'Damage' (the only official releases by Fripp+Sylvian, unfortunately) compete for top spots.
Odd, huh
