From: Par Ekstrand, pe@mech.kth.se
Subject: AENT review
Date: 2/6/2002 3:51:28 AM
To: seance@lists.no-fi.com


Hi !

Got my copy of AENT today, have listened to it now for a while.

This is a really good record the best with Powels, but I think It
could have been up there with The Blurred Crusade, Seance, Heyday
and P=A if the production hadn't been so "crowded" and blurred, I
which they have had the help of someone like Bob Clearmountain. The
songs of this album really deserves a more "professional" treatment.
Especially the vocal sound lacks clearity in my opinion. I think all
of the songs form a good coherent record, even the "chromium" fits
in with the rest of the songs, which Marty songs not always do I think.

What hurts me the most is the mix of "seen it coming" I really adorred
the preview version especially the "lead" guitar, Peter ?, which sounded

to me like an echo from earlier songs like "you took", unfortionatly
it's
totally lost in the mix as are the vocals.

But overall I'm very pleased with this record, it's nice that my
favourite
band since more than 20 years can come up with something like this
after all this years. Coherent and focused.

Looking forward to here the songs live.

Par