Really though, it doesn’t do much apart from book end the record (and remind me of how little I liked the first track, which doesn’t help).
I kind of wish it went a little further with the effect, but I do praise it for twinning one weird effect with the reversed harmonium, for an added creep factor. A faintly terrifying explanation of Shepard tones may help.
In particular, it’s using a form of aural illusion that makes a sound feel like it’s pitching upwards permanently, by presenting octaves in unison in a particular way. The eerie sound actually reminds me more of the Flash Gordon soundtrack than anything else, but is used to add a circularity to the record. The other thing is the return of the reversed harmonium Shepard tones from the intro to the album. I hope for more turn based strategy games based on Queen songs in the future. The sequel to Ogre battle: The March of the Black Queen is called Tactics Ogre: Let us cling together. One that makes me chuckle is confirmation that a certain SNES game producer was a massive Queen fan. It lacks the beguiling weirdness of in the lap of the gods…revisited, while striving for the same kind of closure. It is a kind and generous song, but it isn’t really inspiring. Let us never lose the lessons we have learned A little unextravagant.īut not in a way that will charm those who find the band too bombastic. But here it just feels a little too quiet. It feels uplifting and uniting, which is what I praise the band for so often. It’s strong, with a sparse arrangement but constant sense of openness. Thanks are given to a friend and interpreter Chika Kujiraoka in the liner notes.įor me, it doesn’t hit. A heartfelt coming together in the choruses, emphasised by the Japanese repetition.Īnd apparently that is the core, it’s a tribute to the Japanese fans of the band, apparently already a factor in the bands success.
But it’s a weird mark to push for, even for this band’s diverse tendencies. I guess in the end, it’s a hymn, more than anything, and on that level it hits the mark. It’s got a little bit of the piano ballad and a little bit of the ‘song for singing along at the end of a gig’ mission to it. Weirdly, it feels a bit like Brian trying to do a Freddie, or at least, mash together a few different flavours of Freddie. It has a lot of charms, but it also seems like it doesn’t quite know what sort of song it is.
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