Last Fair Deal Gone Down
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2001 |
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April to November 2000 |
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| Label (s) | Peaceville Records | |||
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11 |
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50:39 |
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Tomas Skogsberg , Jocke Petterson, Katatonia |
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Last Fair Deal Gone Down is the fifth studio album by the Swedish metal band Katatonia . It was released on Peaceville Records in 2001 .
Creation and publication
After Tonight's decision , Fred Norrman's brother Mattias became the new bass player and Daniel Liljekvist became the drummer. Katatonia toured with this line-up in late 1999 with Paradise Lost in Scandinavia and in early 2000 with Opeth in Poland and the United States. Then they recorded a new album over several months. Music and lyrics came from Anders Nyström, Jonas Renkse and Fred Norrman. Last Fair Deal Gone Down was produced by Tomas Skogsberg , Jocke Petterson and the band and mastered by Peter In De Betou. Travis Smith was responsible for the artwork. The album is believed to be named after a piece by Robert Johnson . It was reissued in 2004 and 2011 in a remastered version and with bonus tracks (from the EPs Teargas and Tonight's Music ) and was also released on LP in 2007.
Track list
- Dispossession - 5:33
- Chrome - 5:11
- We Must Bury You - 2:48
- Teargas - 3:22
- I Transpire - 5:54
- Tonight's Music - 4:17
- Clean Today - 4:22
- The Future of Speech - 5:38
- Passing Bird - 3:35
- Sweet Nurse - 3:53
- Don't Tell a Soul - 5:42
- Bonus title 2004
- Sulfur - 6:22
- March 4 - 3:51
- Help Me Disappear - 5:13
- Bonus CD 2011
- Sulfur - 6:22
- March 4 - 3:51
- Help Me Disappear - 5:13
- O How I Enjoy the Light ( Palace Cover) - 2:44
style
Katatonia's characteristic mixture of Gothic Rock and Dark Metal with melancholy-catchy melodies and hard riffs is also further developed on Last Fair Deal Gone Down . There are now some echoes of alternative rock or the style of The Cure as well as the use of both the mellotron and electronic sounds. The dynamics and the change between calm verses and more intense choruses are pronounced, the tempo is a bit higher overall than on the two previous albums. The dense and emotional atmosphere is no longer exclusively characterized by melancholy and despair.
reception
The album was extremely well received by the press. For Rainer Rathel from powermetal.de , Katatonia “went back to work in 2001 a bit more life-affirming. The listener gets the impression that a new morning has dawned for the quartet after a night full of desperation ”. Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard praises the singing in particular: “Front man Jonas Renkse sings more impulsively, more emotionally, more grippingly, and even more lively than ever before. He has risen from an eternal talent to a real charismat. ”He sums up:“ Not every catchy tune is immediately recognizable, it takes a few runs until you realize that each of the eleven pieces is a real pearl. In short: This album is wonderful! ”Jan Wischkowski from metal.de also judges:“ KATATONIA always manages to touch deep inside and actually wrap the whole thing in catchy tunes, almost unbelievable! ”
Web links
- Last Fair Deal Gone Down at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Biography , katatonia.com , accessed February 4, 2013.
- ↑ a b William York: Last Fair Deal Gone Down at Allmusic , accessed on February 4, 2013.
- ↑ a b Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Katatonia. Last Fair Deal Gone Down , Rock Hard # 165, accessed February 4, 2013.
- ↑ a b Rainer Raithel: Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down , powermetal.de , accessed on February 4, 2013.
- ↑ Jan Wischkowski: Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down , metal.de , accessed on February 4, 2013.