Not to be all fan boy, but here it goes anyway. The new Atmosphere album, “You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun Were Having“, comes-out next week and it’s purely AMAZING. I think one of the things which caught me off-guard is how much better the production quality is on this album compared to the ones in the past. I guess Ant must of finally made enough money to buy some decent equipment (last I read, he was still living in his mom’s basement and working a night job). The percussion sounds a lot better, there isn’t background hiss, etc. It seems that Ant also went for a fairly 80′s hip-hop sound as well which always makes me happy.
“Seven’s Travels” didn’t do much for me, but I guess I’d always thought of it as sort of a filler album while Slug and Ant worked on something else (much like the Felt albums) for whatever reason. I’ll need to listen to this album more, but at this point I’m about as enthused with it as when I first got acquainted with “God Loves Ugly“. Basically it’s good to hear Slug get back to his typical self-hating and reflection rather than talking about what it’s like being on tour, ha.
I was curious about some lyrics in a song talking about a murder at one of his concerts, I googled it and came across this article. It’s a good overview if you’re not familliar with them at all.
Oh, and I have heard Colorado get at least one reference in one of his songs, but there might be more. Slug is a big fan of this place, and he always mentions at his concerts here how we bring out the biggest crowd on his tour (which is interesting when artists like The Roots are opening for bands like Galactic here.. argh). He actually had a song about sitting around a bar at DIA between connecting flights on the last album called “Denvemolorado”.
Atmosphere will be at The Fillmore on Nov 10th, which reminds me that I need to get tickets…
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