ANEKDOTEN - Nucleus (1995-2004) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Despite some growth from their King Crimson roots, this album shows Anekdoten still sounding remarkably like Red. "Harvest," opening with a creepily distorted Rhodes piano, establishes the band's somewhat overused pattern of alternating metallic verses clotted with bass, guitar and hi-hat with gorgeously soaring choruses of Mellotron, cello, and ride cymbals. "Here" gives the guitar theatrics a rest and allows Liljestrom's melancholy vocals and the group's delicate playing to come to the foreground. Its mournful lyrics and pensive strings are played over a wheezing pump organ -- listen for Nicholas Berg's feet pumping away at the bellows in the background. The concluding "In Freedom" points to a possible path to the future by eschewing gratuitous heaviness for their real talent, which is constructing beautiful interplay between percussion, cello, and the Mellotron. Paul Collins
Tracklist :
1    Nucleus    5:12
2    Harvest    6:57
Book Of Hours    (9:59)
3a    Pendulum Swing    
3b    The Book    
4    Raft    0:58
5    Rubankh    3:24
6    Here    7:26
7    This Far From The Sky    8:49
8    In Freedom    6:32
- BONUS TRACKS -
9    Luna Surface    6:41
Credits :
Bass, Voice – Jan Erik Liljeström
Cello, Mellotron, Voice – Anna Sofi Dahlberg
Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Tommy Andersson (pistas: 2)
Guitar, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Clavinet, Organ [Pumporgan], Mellotron, Voice – Nicklas Barker
Percussion – Peter Nordins
Producer, Words By, Music By – Anekdoten
Violin – Helena Källander