THE BOOK OF KNOTS

The Book Of Knots. This band has, like, members. These members have names. And their names are known., for they have been playing with various bands that are known. So there you go. I won't go through the list. It's artsy stuff, don't worry.
The Book Of Knots has three albums. All conceptual! I guess you could call it a tryptich! I don't know, one of them has to do with towns built near water, one has to do with metal or rust or something and the third has to do with aerial thingies, stuff that flies, falls, floats and other words that start with an F; such as pheasant.

I don't know what I'm talking about and you can tell. Not to worry. If you think this bloggin' blog is about me knowing what I'm talking about, then you're in for a neat surprise.

Personally, for me, in a subjective sort of self-centerd manner, The Book Of Knots sound alright, but it seems to me it's the kind of band that approaches the creative process a bit too mathematical, you know, like every seemingly random squeak and squeal, every unforeseeable feedback noise HAS to fall exactly there. Programmed sponteneity. There's a song in there, can't remember which, where a guy talks and talks and he sounds exactly like Blixa Bargeld. So you can see how the Unifying Theory of Premeditated Whim came to me one windy morning.

Hold on a sec.

God. I'm either incredibly brilliant or incredibly stupid, it's really hard to tell at this point. I just checked: it IS Blixa Bargeld. The songs's called "Drosophila Melanogaster" and why am I not surprised by that name. This guy shames entire shelves of dictionaries and, dude, that's not a compliment.

And even though, along with Bargeld, Mike Patton appears on their latest album Garden og Fainting Stars (2011), with the very conjuring and brooding "Planemo", I'm still not entirely digesting this.

But anyway, some songs are really good and others are tiny pockets of festering farts. Whatchagonnado?

I don't have time for this, but maybe Swans fans wanna pick this bone a little, cause it's that deep and artistic and poetic and oh, for the love of God...

Here's one they did with Tom Waits, he managed to bring them down to earth died screaming...

The Book Of Knots - Pray