The orchestration of this album is amazing.
The 2015 remaster is incredible, and is the best way to hear these songs anew.
Now in their early twenties, Johns and company have become genuine artists on their own terms. The thick "One Way Mule" is another minor disappointment, reverting back to Silverchair's grunge sound for a song that has little of the intelligence and beauty of the rest of the album. And the unfortunately named "Tuna in the Brine" is a dramatic acoustic number accompanied by stately concert piano and burping brass.New Orleans' Killer Whale land somewhere between Ariel Pink and JJ Cale with "Plenty of Love".There's something perversely entertaining for a memoir about the career of its successful author to stay so relentlessly focused on failures as Tomine.The thing is, they're all good, making this album a boon to Silverchair. Still, it’s never been right to call it Silverchair’s objective best album – that’d be like anointing ‘Please Please Me’ the best of The Beatles.Originally only available on their website, the EP has finally become widely available through streaming services. Johns' voice soars with a confidence not heard before on previous albums, and he reaches high for top-register notes before dropping back down the scale to start again. It reveals their maturation as songsmiths and proves to a smirking world that maybe -- finally -- they've found their voice in the world of rock. Bandleader Allen Clapp recalls how one stunning song blossomed.Tatiana DeMaria reworks her punk band TAT's "Anxiety" into a searing, reflective acoustic number that's made all the more powerful by an intimate new performance video.Silverchair find time for even further genre experimentation on the sonic assault of "Without You", a wall-of-noise track that owes a debt to both My Bloody Valentine and power ballads circa 1987. But who cares? if you have an open mind and like all types of rock (or you're a Death Cab For Cutie fan), go out and buy this cd now. In interviews, both men talked about writing songs that made them feel like superheroes. For example, while second track "The Greatest View" at first sight appears to be a sonic barnstormer along the lines of the Silverchair of old, it quickly reveals itself to be another beast altogether when organs kick in to accompany the riffing. Still, Mac was one of Johns’ very best foils, and this album deserves a proper follow-up.For the few songs that do feel like a sequel to ‘Diorama’, Van Dyke Parks’ orchestral arrangements return: the circus-mad ‘If You Keep Losing Sleep’ and ‘All Across the World’, and the wildly ambitious suite ‘Those Thieving Birds (Part 1) / Strange Behaviour / Those Thieving Birds (Part 2)’.The album plays like a DJ set of relentless electro-funk bangers, but without the ingenuity of their influences like Giorgio Moroder or Daft Punk, nor the hunger of countless younger electronic producers. For example, while second track "The Greatest View" at first sight appears to be a sonic barnstormer along the lines of the Silverchair of old, it quickly reveals itself to be another beast altogether when organs kick in to accompany the riffing.
Bandleader Allen Clapp recalls how one stunning song blossomed.Tatiana DeMaria reworks her punk band TAT's "Anxiety" into a searing, reflective acoustic number that's made all the more powerful by an intimate new performance video.Silverchair find time for even further genre experimentation on the sonic assault of "Without You", a wall-of-noise track that owes a debt to both My Bloody Valentine and power ballads circa 1987. Finden Sie hilfreiche Kundenrezensionen und Rezensionsbewertungen für Diorama (U.S.