SIGH — Imaginary Sonicscape (review)

SIGH — Imaginary Sonicscape album cover Album · 2001 · Avant-garde Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Ever wondered what would happen if you locked a black metal band in a room with Mr Bungle for six months? Well, Sigh's Imaginary Sonicscape offers a close approximation to what might result. Aside from the occasionally operatic clean background vocals, the vocal performance here from main man Mirai Kawashima consists entirely of black metal screechings, but taken into contexts you'd never expect a black metal band to explore. As well as more typical blackened territory, we also visit some straight-ahead heavy rock and roll (black and roll?), a bit of jazz fusion, and the occasional outright comedic section. The influence of such bands as Mr Bungle or Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, who forged a path in presenting a comedic and eclectic approach to serious musical experimentation, is more than apparent and the end result is a real grower.
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