Just listened to Ki AGAIN last night, must have played it 50 + times now, its STILL growing on me, when i first listened to it, only a feww parts really JUMPED out at me but NOW im getting goosebumps at the end of Coast, all over heaven send and Ki and even Demon League which at first didnt register with me at all!!

damn this is a remarkable album. Well done sir.

It's still only June and not even the end of the month yet I can't help feel that Ki will be up there as a heavy contender for my album of the year. With a number of other big releases still to come and probably two of the remaining three DTP albums still to drop in '09 I realise it's a bold prediction to make but it's just so damn good.

If ever there was an album to show how quiet music can be just as tense and powerful as it's obviously loud relation then this is it. Moments remind me of things from Ocean Machine, Infinity, Terria and Accelerated Evolution and even though there is a lighter & cleaner edge to the sound it's still couldn't be anybody other than the Devmeister. "Coast", "Terminal", "Gato" & "Heaven Send" (I'm resisting putting all the tracks though it's tough call to avoid doing so) are easily amongst the best stuff he's ever done and the production is just amazing. There are moments where single notes truly lift from the speakers into the room. Heavy, light, tense, relaxing, beautiful and troubling - all on the same shiny silver slice. Heck, even the 'Elvis meets blues shuffle' at the start of "Trainfire" is kinda fun and I'm not always a big fan of that end of things.

It's rocked an 18mile walked in the summer sunshine and a listen cocooned in bed in the pitch black early hours and come out fighting after proving itself perfect for both. That's a big ask for any album and especially one that I had high hopes for. I hate coming across like a raving fanboy but when this is the sort of thing that drops on your doormat then how can you not?

Mr Townsend, you've done it yet again - I salute you !

{tips hat}

Lady Helen had me frozen today.

Lady Helen had me frozen today.

It's a real beauty that track isn't it. The emotion of the last chorus gets to me everytime.

Dev,

Can you speak to the meaning or thoughts on the lyrics of Trainfire?
This song (as do others ion Ki) seem to reflect to on-the-road events you endured, for better or worse.

Dev,

Can you speak to the meaning or thoughts on the lyrics of Trainfire?
This song (as do others ion Ki) seem to reflect to on-the-road events you endured, for better or worse.

It's about porn innit?

Dev,

Can you speak to the meaning or thoughts on the lyrics of Trainfire?
This song (as do others ion Ki) seem to reflect to on-the-road events you endured, for better or worse.

It's about porn innit?

Getting away from porn, I think he said.

The lyrics to Trainfire are quite funny when you know what it's about.
It's an awesome song though.

Hello,

Picked up the new CD yesterday (last copy in the store thank goodness). Only listened to it once but one favourite bit is the solo in track #6 (scan to 4minutes 10sec). Fantastic! What I love so much about these DT CDs is that when I buy them I never know quite what to expect and my very high expectations are always exceeded!

Chorus to Heaven Sent.....

....greatest thing ever put to tape. Ann and Nancy Wilson wish they would've wrote that melody.

I'm really loving the the track volume blends, and all the added atmospheric sounds. Reminding me of what I really came to love about Pink Floyd productions. Transition effects.
Maybe that's why there's been requests for longer songs, incidentally I always love the Friday drive home from work extra because of this radio show

http://www.rrr.org.au/program/skull-cave/

Always get's me tapping and banging the steering wheel, long involved songs, intense rhythm's.

Who else loves the lyric "through all the mating, master debating, god knows I'd settle for less"??

Clever wordplay, aheheheh!

Yup...I awoke in apple juice.




No wait...



I awoke Iapetus

Coast, Gato, Ki, Lady Helen, Terminal, Demon League are in 'c'
a monday, trainfire, disruptr are in 'b'
heaven send and winter are in 'Bb'
quiet riot is in standard

same intervals as the c tuning, just everything down a step, and a step and a half.

Does that mean that "Bastard" is also just down a half step in B? I'd really love to learn that song.

Awesome that you're using different tunings too!

Yeah I think 'Bastard' is in the Open B Major tuning.. however i'm sure the D string is tuned up to C# at least for one of the guitar tracks anyway, it seems there is a slight delay/drone of C# when the usual open string of that B major tuning would be a B obviously however its noticiable especially on the 'and they can push me harder...' bit... Either that or it could be vast amount of awesome layering on that riff, of course i'm not Devin so I have no idea what tuning its actually in, but i'm pretty sure that sounds right.
Thats just from working it out by ear anyway

Who else loves the lyric "through all the mating, master debating, god knows I'd settle for less"??

Clever wordplay, aheheheh!

One of my favorite on the album. Mostly because I often use the line "I am a master debator." inappropriately during serious conversations. My personal favorite line is in my signature. Also love:


"Somebody get me a doctor / I ain't feelin' ill / but I ain't feeling this at all"

"It's true / It's you / I'll always side with you / 'Til I fall / Eyes forward"

"I wait for the pain / It always comes again / And I don't know why / And I don't care why anymore."


Also, am I the only manly man here who broke into tears between the 2nd half of "Ki" and Quiet Riot? There's such a feeling of personal triumph and survival over incredible odds between the two, it's just so entirely moving...like a sort of therapy set to song.

Isn't it the release of the "Coast" Video tomorrow? If it is im going to bed to sleep for 24 hours Then when i wake from my Slumber...Coast Will be here!