The endless river
Pink Floyd
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Reviews (2)
Gaffa [online]
d. 18. Oct. 2014
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Finn P. Madsen
d. 18. Oct. 2014
"Stuart Staples og Dan McKinna har komponeret musikken på Ypres fuldstændig overlegent uden så meget som at ryste på hånden en eneste gang. Sammen med orkesterlederen Lucy Wilkins lader de på Whispering Guns parts 1, 2 and 3 med strygere og pauker de mørke skyer trække kulsort op, så rædslen mærkes helt inde i kroppen. Ananas Et Poivre og La Guerre Souterraine bevæger sig som droner i et sønderskudt landskab, hvor Tindersticks med indlevelse og respekt lader de deprimerende toner tale for sig selv. Ypres er en rystende mørk musikalsk vidnesbyrd om et af menneskehedens sorteste kapitler".
The quietus
d. 7. Nov. 2014
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Tariq Goddard
d. 7. Nov. 2014
"The proper response to memorials, to lists of the dead who often shared the same surname and mother, is not just respect and grief. It is rage. This anger is not the same as tarnishing or taking their memory lightly or in vain, that is what those who tell stories about them do. Nor does calling terrified and unlucky soldiers who die or are horribly injured on landlines or roadside bombs "heroes" penetrate the reality of their situation or experience; this may console their next of kin, but is of no real use in preventing the next war, or the one after that. These misrepresentations provide us with a world that is not fit for heroes, only a world fit for more wars. Ypres is an eloquent meditation on such complacency, on valour and its misuse, as well as a memorial to the battles, and war, that was meant to end them all".
