spaceman dave's favourite albums of 2010: #4
Track: Colouring of Pigeons
Artist: The Knife
Album: Tomorrow In A Year
Genre: Darwinian Electro-Opera
Similar Artists: Fever Ray, Planningtorock
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I like The Knife a lot, and I used to live fairly close to the Sydney Opera house. . .The Opera was only performed once (as in, one tour of Europe) and I consider myself very lucky to have seen the showing in London. I kind of planned a vacation around it. . .Anyways, Tomorrow In A Year tells the story of a young Charles Darwin, struggling with the decision of whether or not to publish his On The Origin Of Species. While dealing with concepts such as the oppression of revolutionary ideas, the contrast and development of noise and "music" (melody may be the word I am looking for), the Opera presents an artistic biography of Darwin, including events in his life such as his expedition to the tropics and the traumatic death of his daughter.
A fascinating album, no doubt partially due to the odd juxtaposition of musical elements, that reveals more with each successive listen. Darwinian Electro-Opera.
