Maserati
Inventions For the New Season
Temporary Residence
2007
Grade: B+
A lot of instrumental albums tend to just become background noise for other things because you don’t sit there and try to decipher lyrics or sing along. This album is completely instrumental yet carries enough in it’s arrangements to keep your attention.
Maserati features members of !!! (Chk Chk Chk) and Turing Machine. Sometimes the presence of a Turing Machine member can be a little too obvious as is the case on track 5. It doesn’t make for a bad experience while listening, it just sounds obvious to me.
Some parts can be a little repetitive at points, but as I previously stated the arrangements are done well enough to not bore you to tears. They actually serve to interest you in what could actually happen next in the song. I’m also very glad that the songs that were building didn’t build into absolutely nothing like the Cluster album did.
Overall the album seems to be successful in creating a mood, which is rather important in instrumental albums. I’d recommend picking this one up once it comes out. This album will especially appeal to fans of the aforementioned Turing Machine or more mellow instrumental outfits such as Explosions in the Sky or Do Make Say Think.
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