release date: Oct. 10, 2005
format: cd
[album rate: 2,5 / 5] [2,32]
producer: Tony Visconti
label: Columbia Records - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "Kalifornia" - 4. "Ophelia" - 7. "She's Made of Chalk"
5th studio album by Kashmir who continue its style founded on Radiohead art rock with a new certain twist of dream pop. The prominent stars David Bowie and Lou Reed both feature on one song each on the album (tracks #3, and #10 respectively), and one may add that also producer Tony Visconti is a prominent guest artist. The setup and the dreams are certainly present. The music, however, mostly leaves me indifferent. Some of the songs are rather nicely arranged but the sources are as always too evident, and Kasper Eistrup is simply trying too hard to sound like either Thom Yorke or Chris Martin instead of finding out how to just be an original. The dream pop element doesn't come out very successfully. It only makes me think of it as Mew, Radiohead and Coldplay in one huge melting pot - I mean, that could be meaningful and original, but this is not.
