AMON DUUL (UK): DIE LOSUNG (1989) 1) Big Wheel; 2) Urban Indian; 3) Adrenalin Rush; 4) Visions Of Fire; 5) Drawn To The Flame Pt. 1; 6) They Call It Home; 7) Die Losung; 8) Drawn To The Flame Pt. 2. Unlike Fool Moon, this second album, recorded more or less at the same time, does not even try to make a point. Unless the point is made by Bob Calvert, but I cannot, and will not, decipher it: for about two-thirds of the record, he «sings» in such an utterly ugly «nasal hoarse» tone that it would be impossible to take any of the words seriously â€" provided you could make any of them out in the first place. Quite ugly, really. As for the music, this time it is not even all that experimental. It's all mid-tempo or moderately fast «rock», with chemical-sounding, utterly boring, guitar and clinical-sounding, utterly dated, synthesizers (the latter, courtesy of a couple members of The Ozric Tentacles, a band which is much better appreciated on its own, if there ever arise a ne! ed to appreciate them) â€" and the mood never ever changes, at least, not until the last two tracks which are sung by the eternal child Julie Waring: unfortunately, she comes in way too late to dissipate the depressing grey clouds, which are the only ingredient of the entire atmosphere of Die Losung. Sitting through fourty minutes of this muck is an experience only comparable in quality to sitting through some proverbially dull lecture on a subject in which you do not have the most remote interest (and I have ...
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