{"id":3833,"date":"2016-02-11T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2016-02-11T20:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:49:46","slug":"album-review-the-membranes-dark-matterdark-energy-wicked-spins-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/album-review-the-membranes-dark-matterdark-energy-wicked-spins-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review &#8211; The Membranes &#8220;Dark Matter\/Dark Energy&#8221; &#8211; Wicked Spins Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Membranes \u2013 Dark Matter \/ Dark Energy\u00a0 album review<\/h5>\n<p><em>Review by &#8211; Shaun Histed-Todd AKA The Snuff Monkey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Album can be purchased from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Louder-Than-War-website\/1672443232977286?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Louder than War<\/a> website <a href=\"http:\/\/louderthanwar.com\/shop\/cd-albums\/the-membranes-dark-matterdark-energy-cd-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow The Membranes on Facebook<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theMembranes\/?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theMembranes\/?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/membranes1\">@membranes1<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3834\" style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/louderthanwar.com\/shop\/cd-albums\/the-membranes-dark-matterdark-energy-cd-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3834\" src=\"http:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Membranes\" width=\"357\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-680x680.jpg 680w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wickedspinsradio.org\/wsr2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12392028_10153847470674185_8074719807427640780_n-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purchase The Membranes &#8211; Dark Matter\/ Dark Energy &#8211; from Louder than War store<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1977 a young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/johnrobb1984?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">John Robb<\/a> was experimenting with music using tape recorders. He recorded drum breaks from AC\/DC albums and played riffs with a makeshift bass made of rubber bands and cigar boxes. After a while he went seeking other like-minded musicians a year later and inspired by punk he had formed the Membranes. After six albums constant touring and rave reviews the band went quiet\u00a0and John went on to form the successful Goldblade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jumping forward to 2009 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theMembranes\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">The Membranes<\/a> were asked at the request of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Shellac\/111568308858997?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Shellac<\/a> to reform for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/atpfestival\/?fref=ts&amp;rf=108666299167848\" target=\"_blank\">All Tomorrow&#8217;s Parties music festival<\/a> and the band&#8217;s story picks back up with further successful sell-out shows and in 2015 they released their sixth\u00a0album and first in 25 years \u201cDark Matter \/ Dark Energy\u201d to the delight of fans around the world. It\u2019s an intelligent album born out of John\u2019s interest in physics and the Universe and wonderfully fuses Punk and Science in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opening track on the album is \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The Universe Explodes Into A Billion Photons Of Pure White Light<\/span>\u201d and a fantastic tune that I feel will become a classic. Inspired by a meeting between John and the head of the Higgs Bosons project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Joseph-Incandela\/418442281547915\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Incandela<\/a>, the song is an epic psychedelic blast about Sex, Death and the Big Bang that sets the soundscape for the album perfectly. \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Do the Supernova<\/span> \u201cStarts with a soft chorus before hitting us with a hard punching bass line that grinds its way over a pounding drum beat\u00a0as celebration of the Universe. Enter the \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">21<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><sup>st<\/sup> Century Man\u201d<\/span> with a thumping tribal intro that leads into an industrial wall of sound.<br \/>\n\u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Money is Dust<\/span>\u201d continues with the tribal driven rhythm, a more relaxed tune with a repetitious bass line and funky guitars. The song brings us to consider our place in the universe and how we are nothing more than a speck of dust in the sheer scale of it. \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The Multiverse Suite<\/span>\u201d is spacey piece of musicianship with a string section and e-bows setting a mystical soundscape and backdrop as the head of the Higgs Boson project Joe Incandela, explains the Universe to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Space Junk<\/span>\u201d is about the debris of the space race and \u00a0opens with a plodding funked up bass groove intersected with scything guitar cuts as the membranes asks us if \u201c we want to take a ride across the endless sky, Space Junk\u201d. This is another one of my favourite tracks on the album post-punk brilliance.\u00a0 \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dark Matter<\/span>\u201d opens with genuine\u00a0sound recordings of the Universe supplied to the band by inside sources we are informed. An instrumental track that builds from classical drones played on e-bows and ascends to a masterful climax that\u2019s comes over nothing short of majestic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">If you enter the arena, be sure to deal with the Lions<\/span>\u201d is edgy and harsh building up around a cutting guitar riff and into a thunderous and rolling wall of sound. \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Hail to the lovers<\/span>\u201d Gives us that genuine Membranes sound grinding bass and guitars set to a rocking post-punk love song for the space age punkers .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Magic Eye (To see the sky)<\/span> \u201c Shows us the cultural diversity of the Membranes sound adding an eastern touch to this wonderful psyched out bliss. The song is about the Universe being everywhere, wherever you stand you are in the crux of the Universe, wonderful stuff. \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">5776 (The Breathing Song)<\/span>\u00a0&#8221; is based purely around rhythmic breathing coupled with a string section and a dubby bass line it\u2019s an ode to the beauty of the universe that surrounds us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the recording of this album John Robb\u2019s father passed away affecting the theme of many of the songs, pondering the life and death of the human being and the Universe. With \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dark Energy<\/span>\u201d we are presented with a track of melancholy and the coming to terms off loss. Something we all relate to and face through our lives which neatly lead us on to \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The Hum of the Universe<\/span>\u201d the last track on the album. Recorded in B Flat that is the true\u00a0hum of the Universe, it\u2019s a chaotic psychedelic master piece that completes a truly inspiring album and leaving you wanting more<\/p>\n<p>Recently the Membranes have taken the album a step further accompanied with a choir on live sets adding even further depth and new grounds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/4F5sIPDkg4FlvgKNKmwQTF\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/4F5sIPDkg4FlvgKNKmwQTF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Album can be purchased from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Louder-Than-War-website\/1672443232977286?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Louder than War<\/a> website <a href=\"http:\/\/louderthanwar.com\/shop\/cd-albums\/the-membranes-dark-matterdark-energy-cd-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><br \/>\nUpcoming shows<br \/>\nWestgarth Social Club \u2013 Middlesborough<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1661118040840459\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1661118040840459\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kingston Row, Cambrian Wharf, B1 2NU Birmingham<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1508473762796652\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1508473762796652\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow The Membranes on Facebook<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theMembranes\/?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theMembranes\/?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/membranes1\">@membranes1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Membranes \u2013 Dark Matter \/ Dark Energy\u00a0 album review Review by &#8211; Shaun Histed-Todd AKA The Snuff Monkey The Album can be purchased from the Louder than War website HERE Follow The Membranes on Facebook https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theMembranes\/?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts And Twitter @membranes1 In 1977 a young John Robb was experimenting with music using tape recorders. 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