Kotipelto - Coldness

[davidn]

Kotipelto attempts to sneak out of the country after releasing this disaster.

I'm not actually going to review this album, but I felt that the caption I'd thought up was too good to waste. "Avoid" should do for a summary of it. Instead, here's a collection of other music opinions.

I got a Nuclear Blast sampler CD with Infinite, and the most notable thing on it is Helloween's video of Just A Little Sign. The whole thing is remarkably reminiscent of the "Limozeen in space" cartoon from Homestar Runner, with them flying to a planet populated by pumpkins, then blasting off again at the end. The song's pretty great - it's the first time I've heard anything sung by Andreas Deris, who is the same colour as Chris Tarrant.

The only trouble is that I really wish it didn't have the "Something's growing in my pants/As she looks into my eyes" lines. (The lyrics for the single version say that the word is "plans", but it clearly isn't.) Helloween seem to be a decent band but with an unsettling sort of lunacy behind them. Their most recent album is called "Rabbit Don't Come Easy", for example.

Sonata Arctica's Reckoning Night gets better the more I listen to it. You know that sort of cold tingle at the back of the neck you get when you're listening to something amazing? The finale of White Pearl, Black Oceans and the chorus of Ain't Your Fairytale do that to me every time. I've heard it referred to as a "musical orgasm" before, but I think this is slightly vulgar and it conjures up bad images.

A recent post by l_s_q reminded me that I haven't listened to any of Nobuo Uematsu in a while - I had the Melodies of Life album copied on to my computer by my younger siblings. Night in Alexandria is a fantastic piece of music - it really could be from the Planets suite or something. And the title song - it's rather soft for my preference, but great nonetheless.

I still have no idea what this song means.