Search - Controlled Bleeding :: Can You Smell the Rain Between

Very Dark Sort of Ambient and NOT!

Carl Johnson | Detroit, MI United States | 05/09/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This was the first Controlled Bleeding CD I purchased. At first, I did not like it much. I was thinking, "Another English band of really trippy space-cadets". Well that was last year when this title was released. I kept coming back to it. I like dark stuff... experimental and trippy, but this recording had no "hook" to it until I put the song, "Here Come the Warm Jets " onto one of my mix tapes. It actually has a beat to it and it is on the hard side in flavor... but it is infectious! I put it right after the live version of Saucerful of Secrets by Pink Floyd. I had already recorded more than half the CD already on other dark mixes for my somber car rides alone. Most the songs have no real beat pursay, but fits a gothic definition in a way. Darn if this is intellegent, well-planed improvization and experimentation with tone, texture and "closing" space. You will have to hear it to understand what I mean by closing space. Next to Between Tides, this is their best record! I think it is fair that there is no deception about what this music is. It is strange, eerie, mood enhanced dark-joy of musical experimentation! I fear that this band is done. I hope not. They will NEVER fit into a mainstream category but this is a very intellengent work of Dark Ambient Space rock. Excellent spin!"