After many comprehensive listens to Vaccine, I have to hold my hands up and say sorry for doubting YB’s new direction.
This album is amazing on so many levels. I take back the negative remarks I made about vocals. About a week or so ago I had an awesome experience listening to this album and now I hear it a new way.
The fine details, the composition, the production and also the vocals is just absolutely sublime. It has a psychedelic quality that is almost new to me. Something I haven’t experienced for quite a while which makes it almost new.
I’ve unfortunately listened to pop music to see if this album runs along the same lines. Thankfully, no it doesn’t. It doesn’t even sound like Coldplay to me. To those who think it does please explain and share why you think it does. What tracks of Coldplay does it sound like??
For those who believe YB have lost their early style, I agree but this album is such a progression in so many ways. I believe alot of us got caught up with how the vocals played a big part in the making of this album that we missed the bigger picture of it.
I for one was sceptical at first but every thing fits together so perfectly in this masterpiece. Take away the vocals/lyrics and you are left with awesome music however there would be a void. Everything has it’s place.
Lyrics have worked in music for so many great bands. I see it working so well for YB.
Benji, Ru, Simon and the rest of YB band. I congratulate you all on creating such a fantastic, wonderful and truly beautiful album.
Thanks guys .... I have to say me,Si and Ruu are really proud of Vaccine - we made the album we wanted tomake - not for commercial reason etc but because we have to follow our muse not our audience ..... we are also sensitive souls who in the end want people to build a relationship with our music….. keep on listening and more to come soon
Never thought anything bad about it….although I did give my friend ‘that look’ when I first heard shine, soon got over that love it, see you at Glastonbury younger brotherers x
I’ve never doubted about YB, of course I read the comments on the LP, but, I know some people are stuck in the pure electronic genre and can’t open themselves to what is music: a mix of genres, from many different countries, it takes us to what we are and what we are all looking for: something to take us away from our defined world, something to bring the magic, the unknown answer. Vaccine is fabulous, sounds massive and above all is unique! Can’t compare it… It’s definitely fallowing the evolution of the last two album. To be honest and as I wrote on another web site I’m happy they broke up a bit with the crappy trance scene cause nowadays it all sounds the same. We should all thank Younger Brother for their work and their high quality music, I can’t understand the people who are disappointed, because if you like Shpongle, if you like Prometheus, then you should like all about Younger Brother. You have to open up your mind, never expect, instead, learn how to give so you’ll know how to take
It’s like red wine, more you drink it, more you’ll find all the little tiny things that make it refined and honest, here it’s the same
Thanks to the YB team.
the thing is that the production on this album is really subtle (compared to a normal twisted release). it really takes a few good listens to pick up on all the subtle effects, but it’s extremely rewarding.
so i’ll happily put my hand up (although i still maintain that it’s only the first step and they can do better).
I really don’t expect Younger Brother to be Shpongle v-2.0, so I wasn’t put off by what I was seeing come out about this album. As soon as I got my delivery of the album, and gave it a play in the Hi-Fi, I was totally impressed. They (YB) have really headed off onto a unique branch of psychedelic music and I am grateful for it.
I don’t know if I prejudged it, by I had my reservations. Maybe I did, I was expecting less, but the number of times I’ve listened to it must mean I think it’s pretty damn good. It’s really a great album to go on the journey with, listen to it from start to finish.
Yes I did have my reservations about the album from when I first heard NLMA and Shine and I’ve listened to it quite a bit now however not half as much as Shpongle or any other Twisted project. It is a very good album for what it is, but it doesn’t get my neurons firing as much as other material from them or what I’ve heard from other artists/labels I follow. I don’t feel I have to open my mind because I listen to Floyd, Jazz and a bit of other vocal material or different genere stuff.
I have to admit that if I had been given a blank disc and asked to listen to it without knowing it was Simon/Benji I may not have listened to it as much, so my perception was pre-programmed before hand. It’s a nice change though and some of the tracks are stunning. I think NLMA & Shine have too much of a ‘pop’ feel to them but saying that I do ‘hum’ along.
Having heard so much about the label’s money problems, I thought that this direction was in part motivated by desire for mass appeal. I do think the album is the most pop thing I’ve heard from Twisted, which is not calling it pop considering the mind-bending non-popness of all the other music, only that it will bring in new fans of this sound that might not have had a taste for the older psychedelic stuff.
Always a good thing, and for those not electronically satisfied enough, how bad are you looking forward to the remix album? Always said, have faith in the artist…Si and Benji have always demonstrated their unparalleled skill at their art and a connection to their creative wellspring that is so rare in music these days. Although I am, admittedly, one who prefers his psychedelia handed to me up front and personal, panned and effected to the point of synesthesia, I like that this album challenges the listener to appreciate a more subtle trip, not weaker, just different.
Always a good thing, and for those not electronically satisfied enough, how bad are you looking forward to the remix album? Always said, have faith in the artist…Si and Benji have always demonstrated their unparalleled skill at their art and a connection to their creative wellspring that is so rare in music these days. Although I am, admittedly, one who prefers his psychedelia handed to me up front and personal, panned and effected to the point of synesthesia, I like that this album challenges the listener to appreciate a more subtle trip, not weaker, just different.
Well now that it’s out there I must admit that even though I had a lot of criticism about the type of music YB have made on this album and you can say that I was even feeling betray by Si and Benji for abandoning the electronic way and making “word music” - I found a few songs on this album that I really like like Train and SITP.
I don’t know if it’s couse of all the repeating times I heared it or couse it’s actually a good album - just different from the music I used to hear in my life.
The only thing that is wrong right now is that i haven’t gotten my pledged Items yet and that is starting to look real bad in my point of view.
The only thing that is wrong right now is that i haven’t gotten my pledged Items yet and that is starting to look real bad in my point of view.
Patience, Brain, YB posted an update explaining that they weren’t responsible for fulfilling the pledges, and the person who dropped the ball has moved on. They’ve only recently hired an intern, and promised to fulfill all pledges asap.
Thanks DiMu and Jah, between the rants and bad jokes, i have my moments.
I wouldn’t say I prejudged Vaccine per se, but by choosing to “reserve judgment” perhaps that’s still saying about the same thing… In any case, I think I’m finally ready to give it a proper shot. I will say I’m disappointed I felt like shying away from immediate judgment, but whomsoever I’m actually disappointed in does remain to be seen! More soon, I expect..
The irony is that a friend of mine actually thought that Last Days Of Gravity was too mainstream for her. Her definition of underground were groups like The Cure, Muse and Radiohead.
My own idea about electronica is that after so much lyrics and conversations digging deep into our souls throughout the ‘80s, we all needed a break from words in order to find and define our own language on the dancefloor. Today I think a lot of the darkness that has been past on to us by people like Sigmund Freud, Albert Camus and Friedrich Nietsche has disappeared. The age of finding truth in books and theorys is coming to an end.
Now that life itself is becoming our best teacher again, we can start talking again. And start singing again.
Ru is articulating exactly what I was feeling lately.
love it, see you at Glastonbury younger brotherers x
