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Avante garde prog

a proghead | United States | 10/03/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Much avante garde prog music on the Cuneiform label tends to be very fast-paced and frenetic sounding (Doctor Nerve, Present, Thinking Plague, etc.) Such is not the case with Smokin' Granny. They have a slower groove going on that sounds like one of these bands took a muscle relaxant. By way of comparison they sound to me like NeBeLNeST or a relaxed Boud Deun. The average person on the street is going to think that this music sounds "strange". There's little melody or song structure. Songs start and then end abruptly. The music sounds random and improvised at times. I have a large catalog of albums and nothing else yet sounds quite like these guys. A 5/5 for originality, and 4/5 overall."