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Fitching a Wrong Sucker

Shawn Christopher Ward | spring, tx United States | 07/11/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Buy this album, Buy this album, Buy this album!!!!! Steven Stapleton rarely ceases to amaze, and this is no exception. Originally released on vinyl on the TORSO label in the mid-eighties, this is prime NWW. Experimental as always, this album is, for lack of a better word, amongst the more "ambient" of the NWW works. Still challenging at times, this record is considerably more "listenable" than earlier NWW pieces. The only frustrating thing about this album is the back cover listing 20 tracks (A-T) but the cd itself only being indexed as three tracks. -What this means is that i am not sure if the best track on the album is called "migration to the head," "earthwork," red period," "this lady is burning." or "chasing the carrot." In any event, you need this."

Great Dark Ambient

Logan Albright | Marietta, Georgia USA | 01/18/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is my second NWW album (after Man With The Woman Face) and I love it! Stapleton has a wonderfully eclectic style that will hold your interest and keep you coming back for more. Just when you think you've got the record pegged as a spooky, dark organ cacophony, you're bombarded with a jazzy piano solo out of the clear blue sky. Of a set of bagpipes blaring away, or the naturalistic sounds of birds chirping. There are even kazoos! It is often tricky to create ambient-style music that is still engaging all the way through, but Stapleton has a rousing success in Spiral Insana.
I will definately be listening to more NWW in the future (if I can find it, that is)."

What U R looking for, though you may not know it!

Phil Avetxori | 04/06/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'm relatively new to NWW's music, but I've recently been snapping up everything I can get my hands on! No two albums are the same, but this is the entry point, one of the best. There is incredible variety within this album, with ambient segments alternating with more manic stretches, like The Faust Tapes, only both more cohesive and more diverse. Keyboard drones, pipe organ blasts, spaced out electronics, honky-tonk piano, meditative reeds, generator rumble, chirping birds, banjos, jags of noise, phased out martial beats, dubbed out kazoos, bowed pianos, rattling tin cans, guitar skronk,tape loop insanity....it's all here!"