Recorded 2005 Release date 27 September 2005 Label At a Loss Recordings | Artist Minsk Producer Sanford Parker Genres Post-metal, Doom metal | |
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Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead Nor Alive
(2005) With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
(2007) Similar With Echoes in the Move, The Crash and the Draw, Hawkwind Triad, Somewhere Along the Highway, Times of Grace | ||
Minsk waging war on the forevers
Out of a Center Which Is Neither Dead Nor Alive is the debut full-length album by Chicago-based post-metal band Minsk. Produced by Sanford Parker, the album was released in 2005 on At a Loss Recordings.
Contents
Minsk out of a center which is neither dead nor alive 2005 full album
Critical reaction
In a review of the album, Allmusic's Greg Prato wrote: "Although the group has obvious roots in metal (as evidenced by tracks like 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives'), Minsk has plenty of tricks up its sleeve, such as the sonic hodgepodge 'Holy Flower of the North Star' (a track custom-made for listening to on headphones)." Phil Freeman of The Wire remarked: "What's most striking about this music is how adeptly it subverts or sidesteps metal's traditional insistence on catharsis. It's New Age music of a sort: it fills the room, and it's often quite beautiful, but its ebb and flow are so regular and smooth that it acts as a sedative rather than a stimulant." It was ranked the 17th best metal album of 2005 by PopMatters, whose Adrien Begrand called the album a "mind-blowing, richly textured debut" and "the cream of this year’s avant crop." Jeff Pizek of Daily Herald said that the album's songs have "no catchy harmonies or sing-along choruses, but plenty of blissful textures are woven among the downtrodden loping."
Track listing
- "Waging War on the Forevers"
- "Narcotics and Dissecting Knives"
- "Holy Flower of the North Star"
- "Three Hours"
- "Bloodletting and Forgetting"
- "Wisp of Tow"
Songs
1Waging War on the Forevers
2Narcotics and Dissecting Knives
3Holy Flower of the North Star