Nucleus by Anekdoten

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Progressive Rock | Psychedelic

9 tracks | 55 minutes

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Second album from the Swedsih masters of dark and heavey progressive rock. A lot of mellotron.

Editorial review

Despite some growth from their King Crimson roots, this album shows Anekdoten still sounding remarkably like Red. "Harvest," opening with a creepily distorted Rhodes piano, establishes the band's somewhat overused pattern of alternating metallic verses clotted with bass, guitar, and hi-hat with gorgeously soaring choruses of Mellotron, cello, and ride cymbals. "Here" gives the guitar theatrics a rest and allows Liljestrom's melancholy vocals and the group's delicate playing to come to the foreground. Its mournful lyrics and pensive strings are played over a wheezing pump organ -- listen for Nicklas Berg's feet pumping away at the bellows in the background. The concluding "In Freedom" points to a possible path to the future by eschewing gratuitous heaviness for their real talent, which is constructing beautiful interplay between percussion, cello, and the Mellotron. [The 2004 reissue of Nucleus includes the bonus track "Luna Surface."] ~ Paul Collins, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

Anekdoten are considered as one of the leading bands in contemporary progressive rock. Their intensive, dark, dynamic and for each subsequent release more original music have also made an appeal among metal-, goth- and post-rock fans all over the world.

ANEKDOTEN - NUCLEUS (remastered with bonustrack)

‘Nucleus’, released late 1995, was an uncompromized, grungy and distorted affair. Heavy and diabolic! A major leap forward for the band. ‘Nucleus’ confirmed the band’s status within the prog community and is considered a cult album by many of the fans. Some fans concider this album to be one of the best albumes ever released.

Some rewiews:

Sean Worrall (The Organ Magazine:

"As near perfection as its possible to get... dirty filthy distorted clavinets... disgustingly beautiful raunch... they've done the almost impossible and left their vital debut album Vermod [sic] light years behind. This really is unique, and you can't say that about many albums.