The eight album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and saxophones.
The band got some help from a handful of guests who has provided percussion, accordion, synths, flute and clarinet.
Panzerpappa is celebrating twenty-five years as recording artists these days. The band are veterans in the scene as the members also ran a progressive rock fanzine in the 1990s (which also included Jacob Holm-Lupo from White Willow). I have reviewed some of the first Panzerpappa albums but I gladly admit I am not really up to date with their albums. Anyway... The band is one of Europe's leading lights in the avant-garde/RIO scene.
Landsbysladder means "village gossips" in English and I can, as I have lived in villages all my fifty-seven years, releate to the excellent album art-work and the album title. You see a lot of park benches with gossiping men and women. Gossips which can be hurtful and damaging. But they also have a positive function and they are what we villagers have to live with. For good and worse.
The band is nominally a chamber rock band and that is the genre best describing this fifty minutes long album. There are also some more cinematic rock here too.
The music is not as dense avant-garde as I did expect, based on the few previous albums I have reviewed of them. The music is pretty melodic without really being easy listening and commercial.
The music also reflects the album title and the album art-work. It is both dark, melancholic and sinister. There are also some more playful music here too.
The result is a good album and one even those who are not avant-garde/RIO fans should check out.
3 points
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