Orthrelm's OV: Kickass or totally sweet?

Jul 8, 2005

I mentioned it before (I have no idea why that page has a completely different theme, btw; it only happens, it seems, to individual posts and archive pages from before July.  How bizarre), but only just now listened to it, and it is indeed like a very intense version of the Necks, and now Mick Barr is talking about "guitar, 2 drummers and oboe"?  (Interesting that it's getting pegged here as modernist, instead of what I hear as extremely ramped-up minimalism (totalism?).  Though given their earlier albums in which they never repeated a phrase ever, and the huge fandom of Weasel Walter, and the somewhat inescapable sense that Orthrelm's music is designed with something not entirely unlike this incredibly toxic conception of musical progress (the "development of mathematics" part) in mind, it makes some sense.)