ANATHEMA Hindsight - compilation of re-recordings on CD
Format: CD Condition: New Year of Release: 2008 Cat. No.: 106 Label: Kscope
Hindsight is a set of unplugged re-recordings of Anathema's own songs from their latter-day, atmospheric period. The band has been increasing the emphasis on acoustic instrumentation ever since they turned away from their doom-death roots, and so the idea of Hindsight seems to have been almost unavoidable.
Thankfully, however, unlike most unplugged albums, this one was done in the studio, with obvious care taken to transmit the songs in a new format, as opposed to simply plugging off the distortion pedal and plucking away at the same chords.
The songs have been rearranged for an acoustic guitar, piano, and cello, and are barely recognizable, except for the vocals -- Vincent Cavanagh's moan is as sad and dejected as ever -- and for the parts that were acoustic to begin with, such as most of "Inner Silence." The good thing is that the new setting brought the gentle melancholy present in Anathema's music to the forefront; there was a danger of the band being too melodramatic with Hindsight, but it's smartly avoided (for the most part) without losing the emotion.
~ Alexey Eremenko, Rovi
TRACK LISTING:
1 Fragile Dreams 2 Leave No Trace 3 Inner Silence 4 One Last Goodbye 5 Are You There? 6 Angelica 7 Natural Disaster 8 Temporary Peace 9 Flying 10 Unchained (Tales Of The Unexpected)
