This is a real oddball! While the previous CD featured separate tracks, this one is essentially a single, long track. Although they’ve listed 33 titles, these are really just sections from the concept story. It’s a sci-fi take on Noah’s Ark, combined with the sci-fi avant-garde Black Metal of ex-At The Gates & ex-Grotesque Alf Svensson’s Oxiplegatz.
Humanity is threatened by a black hole, and a select group of people, along with a pair of every living creature, are sent into space to escape. Their goal: to find a new habitable planet somewhere out there. Several things happen along the way before the story reaches its conclusion.
Now, onto the music. When I first listened to this CD, I found it very disjointed. It’s quite hard to grasp at first. But if you put in a bit of effort and know the story, you’ll realize that the many changes in the music mirror the numerous changes in the narrative. What immediately grabs you, even on the first listen, is Sara Svensson’s beautiful voice, which was also impressive on ‘Worlds and Worlds’. I think this is an album that will grow on you with each listen, revealing more and more with each playthrough.
For now, I prefer the previous one, ‘Worlds and Worlds’, but for how long?
