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An epic masterpeice

06/04/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"yume bitsu's second record: epic soundscapes of guitars, syth and drums that explode in triumphant chacophany. this lp is a giant leap forward from their first record, giant surface music, and its epic grandeur dwarfs subsequent yume recordings with its dense layers of foggy guitar smear. if mogwai were less about quiet-loud and more about building naturally to the loud points, they might reach the glory yume bitsu taps into on this record. if godspeed you black emperor lightened up a little and let their guitars chime in major keys instead of sulking in gothic morbidity, and had occasional vocals instead of occasional samples of bums rambling about nonsense, they might sound like this record. if bedhead ever let themselves jam out the ends of their songs for 10 minutes and got really, really loud, they might sound like this. if yo la tengo had three more guitarists and all they did were those long songs at the end of their records, they might sound like this. if brian eno made guitar records with a drummer back in the 70's when he was making ambient synth records, they might have sounded like this. if tangerine dream drenched their keyboards in fuzz and delay, and recruited kevin sheilds to add guitar textures, it might sound like this. or something like that."

Yume Bitsu's second CD full of blissful ambience

Steve Schroeder | LA, CA | 01/12/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD by the Portland, OR band is wonderfully lush, sparse and hard to describe. Some tracks are melodic space rock, and others are all quiet ambient. The songs usually take you on a journey from tight togetherness to inspired jamming back to the full band. It is wonderful music to have playing while doing other things, or to concentrate fully on. Yume Bitsu's music fills you and takes you on an "epic trip"."