Show 184 - Magenta, Rebel Wheel, D.F.A.

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Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

The Rebel Wheel - Diagramma (2007)

Heard some of them at Rosfest, they played the after-hours party. I'm only halfway through it, but it's much different than I was expecting. Shades of NIN, Eno, a touch of jazz. The vocals are not as strong as I'd like, and the bass is turned up too much, but some good song structures and lots of twists and turns. Looking forward to hearing the rest and will report back.

yeah, I talked to these guys a lot at rosfest. the album is almost a different band than the one that played. the biggest changes were that they picked up a newer (and much better, IMHO) drummer and the sax player had only joined the band about a month before the CD was cut, so she's only on the last 2 tracks, and even then, she's not used very well. By the time they got to rosfest, they'd rearranged most of their songs to better use the drummer and the sax player, and though I like the CD, I think what they played at rosfest was at least an order of magnitude better. I'm looking forward to their new album coming out to see if they can capture that sound on a recording. we'll see.