Despite some growth from their King Crimson roots, this album shows Anekdoten still sounding remarkably like Red.
"Harvest," opening with a creepily distorted Rhodes piano, establishes the band's somewhat overused pattern of alternating metallic verses clotted with bass, guitar and hi-hat with gorgeously soaring choruses of Mellotron, cello, and ride cymbals.
"Here" gives the guitar theatrics a rest and allows Liljestrom's melancholy vocals and the group's delicate playing to come to the foreground.
Its mournful lyrics and pensive strings are played over a wheezing pump organ -- listen for Nicholas Berg's feet pumping away at the bellows in the background.
The concluding "In Freedom" points to a possible path to the future by eschewing gratuitous heaviness for their real talent, which is constructing beautiful interplay between percussion, cello, and the Mellotron.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HarvestAnekdoten | Anekdoten | Play | 06:49 | 15 MB | 42 MB |
| 2 | RubankhAnekdoten | Anekdoten | Play | 03:07 | 7 MB | 21 MB |
| 3 | HereAnekdoten | Anekdoten | Play | 07:23 | 16 MB | 38 MB |
| 4 | This Far from the SkyAnekdoten | Anekdoten | Play | 08:46 | 20 MB | 57 MB |
| 5 | In FreedomAnekdoten | Anekdoten | Play | 06:27 | 14 MB | 33 MB |
| 6 | Book Of Hours | Anekdoten | Play | 09:56 | 22 MB | 60 MB |
| 42 mins | 97 MB | |||||
| 42 mins | 253 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anekdoten | Composer, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 2 | Nicklas Barker | Clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Guitar, Mellotron, Mixing, Pump Organ, Vocals |
| 3 | Anna Sofi Dahlberg | Cello, Mellotron, Vocals |
| 4 | Jan Erik Liljestrom | Bass, Mixing, Vocals |
| 5 | Christofer Stannow | Remastering |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |