Search - Hugo Largo :: Drum

Glimpse of heaven

Martin J Flanagan | Wantagh, NY USA | 11/08/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I had considered the possibility that I only love this album because I was exposed to it at an early enough age where I had heard nothing like it before & so it made a great impression but I didn't know enough about music to be objective. Twelve years later when I listen to it my jaw hits the floor just as it did the first time I heard it. This is the most gorgeous album to ever come from a self-professed "art-rock" combo (Talking Heads included). The closest points of reference would be the Cocteau Twins & Brian Eno, but you really have to hear this music for yourself. The basics: 2 Bass Guitars (played tastefully & impeccably by Tim Sommer & Adam Peacock), a violin (played by Hahn Rowe, who recently released an album of drum'n'bass music under the name Somatic), and the unique vocal stylings of one Mimi Goese (whose first solo album 'Soak' was one of last year's best releases)... Both 'drum' and the follow-up 'Mettle' are works of art that defy easy description or categorization, suffice to say that once you add them to your collection you'll treasure them, and be annoyed as hell that they didn't stay together to make more music for the ages."

A Singular Band........

J. T. Lees | Brisbane, Australia | 02/22/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Hugo Largo produce a disarmingly simple mixture of organic guitars, bass and strings with the acrobatic vocals of the fabulous Mimi Goese. This is their first album, now available on cd. Following this, the band released their second album, Mettle, which continued in a similar sonic vein but with better songwriting. Now, Mettle is very hard to get and never even released on cd (to my knowledge). Why o why o why not??? ..."

Modest masterpiece

C. Gardner | Washington D.C., D.C. United States | 09/19/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Drum" is a great album. The simple arrangements for guitar, bass, mandolin, violin, and organ render Mimi Goese's beautiful voice all the more powerful, embedded in an atmosphere of chamber music, or folk songs in slow-motion...Best played in your house in hazy summer with all the windows open, the smell of thunder and ozone in the air. The title's ironic; not a drum to be found here but for the penultimate (and best) track, "Second Skin.""