Saturday, September 03, 2005
The Observatory concert at the Esplanade had for one better seats, the last time round, we had to bring our own cushions, fortunately, they provided chairs this tie round.
The first thing I noticed about them was the addition of the drum set, I heard they got a new drummer, and it was going to be interesting.
Blank walls' songs are as one would say, a tad more "heavy". Or at least from the selection of the songs performed, that was one of the conclusions. Maybe it's their new direction or maybe it's the addition of a drummer. I for one find that any band with the addition of any half-decent drummer will tend to play much louder, heavier music in general. THe Observatory's new drummer was pretty good.
On the whole, the band still retains that surreal type of music, albeit much more angsty and less of a drifting kind of feel. Where the first album gives one a sense of floating along, this one tells you that they are rushing forward on a bike.
If you ask, me, it's not "Observatory" per se. But hopefully, it's just half of the songs on the album.
They did play killing time as part of the encore performance, but, it lacked emotion. Vivian was off-tune and off beat through out the song.
But on a positive note, the bass players have definitely improved.
Go get the album, I think it's good.
Gavin
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