Empty the Bones of You

I disagree with 98% of the what the album reviewer has stated. Chris Clark's music is highly inventive - he manages to combine the influences of all those well-known artists the reviewer references into something new. This is, after all, what music-making is - we take what we have heard and form our own hybrids. I do, however, agree with the reviewer on two subjects: 1. Clark's song structure is a bit erratic on this album - hence, my 4 star review. He seems to have grown in this area on each album he has released (just check out Body Riddle and the recently released Totems Flare if you don't believe me). 2. Clark's production skills are top-notch, and I do hope to see him in the role of producer, collaborating with other artists.

Genre is fun, and maybe useful for a time, but for now, lets drop the genre game and examine music on its own terms. You see, just because, say, I make something that, upon examination, exhibits straits and styles that could give it the classification of ambient, doesn't mean that it isn't completely unique in the images it conjures up in the listener's head. Music is about much more than what you actually decide to use for the sound, it is what drives that decision, it is what the artist is trying to capture or harness. There is some part of music that is only perceived by some sixth sense that we have. Music journalists can't categorize it, and I am almost killing my own statements by even writing about it. Chris Clark has been making what he feels driven to make, and I have been listening to it. This is an album filled with music that can be deeply explored.

Okay. Part of this review's purpose is to take me off of my one-star review streak. Anyway, this album is awesome! It has some creepy tracks on it, like "Betty" which I think is creepier than "Shrewland" on Clarence Park. If I must reccomend five tracks off this album, they are: *Wolf *Gavel (Obliterated) *Indigo Optimus *Holiday As Brutality *Slow Spines Or, you can just buy the album and enjoy it for yourself. It's a great album!

Probably is not the best entry level to the IDM genre but the album still very nice and awesome distorted bass and beats. Is a very commercial album of Clark but still broken the expectations of my mind and ears!!!

this is an OK album ... there are some very good things in it. repeat listening is a requirement. it really grew on me.

Apparently this critic is coldly looking at the mechanics of the genre and overlooking at the emotional journey of Empty the bones of you. If you were one of the listeners that grasped the rosy/childish/developmentally sick themes of the Richard D. James Album, or the labyrinth of hydraulic waves of Trip Repetae, then you will trip on this album's pulverized music boxes. You will feel pulled by electromagnetic waves- mental pictures will rush to your shore. It's beautiful on its own right.