Chris Clark - Empty The Bones Of You mp3 download

Hawk Flying

one of the best Clark releases, lock yourself in a dark room and stick this on either on good quality speakers or headphones. The best tracks on this album were indigo optimus which starts off to make you think the whole album is going to be this melodic nice little beat section with a dark touch to it. Holiday as brutality then kicks in to removes those thoughts with a very well accomplished depressing sound with a very choppy beat throughout the song. Wolf then veers back into indigo optimus territory with a similar melody style but also keeping the choppy beats which adds effect. Farewell track sounds extremely basic at first with a reoccurring beat and an increasing ambient noise in the background, then it hits the end with an extremely euphoric feeling ambient piece making all the build up for the song worth it. Gavel (obliterated) is probably the choppiest track on this album with some very noticeable beat sections, its a very dark song (not sure how it came from "the gavel") which merges into probably my favorite Clark song of all time. Gob coitus, this track has an immense and fantastically done build up to a beat section which consists of the choppy beats behind some mashed up and distorted vocals, kind of like dark hip hop, this section them builds up to the outro of the song one of the best pieces of music ever produced, the whole song fits together perfectly. The final track of the album Betty, this is an ambient piece with not much change in tone throughout, this doesn't stop it creating an effect, its probably the most depressing, lonely and desolate piece of music ever written purely because how bleak it is and how well the drone sound is made.10/10 This and turning dragon are two of the best albums I've ever heard

Jarortr

Chris Clark's --- Empty The Bones In You, is an improvement, not neccessarily in skill but as far as style. Clarence Park was more of a decendant of the late 90's Aphex Twin material. This album seems to show that Chris Clark has figured out his little 'niche'...with his typical off the wall melodies, and sometimes meloncholy themes. And there are plenty of 'Glitch' friendly tracks on here for you 'IDM' nuts =). Check out 'Empty The Bones In You' not only if you enjoyed his previous album, but if you like the sharp messy sounds of Glitchy IDM penetrating your ear-drum ^_^.

Perongafa

Awesome release, been getting into it pretty hard lately. Beautifully haunting melodies pull you in and calm you down. This is something I will eventually purchase on vinyl and cd. 'Ceramics Is the Bomb' is pretty great also. So far I'm really liking what I'm hearing of Chris Clark.

Lightwind

my #1 record of 2003, though i stumbled upon it recently - and got stunned. hauntingly beautiful arranged tracks somewhere between ambient, noise(-lite) and breakbeats that go deep if being listened to very closely. they're driving and pushing you forward, though at the same time, relaxing and calming you. one could say it's a rather dark album, but it's shimmering with a lot of, sometimes hidden, beauty - you always get both worlds.

Rleyistr

Chris Clark’s second album, EMPTY THE BONES OF YOU, is a much more sonically dense, much more complex work than his debut CLARENCE PARK. The very first track, “Indigo Optimus,” flows from dark and claustrophobic roots into an almost symphonic end. There’s also the shrill and beautiful “Early Moss” which is sure to challenge even the most jaded of eardrums, or the quiet growling menace of “Wolf.” “Slow Spines” glitches and toots along in an arctic tundra soundscape. Much of the album stays at an icy reserve, very cool and cerebral (“Umbilical Hut” is a perfect example of this as well). “Betty” ends the album with another symphony orchestra stranded on an ice floe, watching the aurora borealis. An excellent album.

Drelajurus

Also my personal favorite too. His best album so far. Ceramics is too abstract and 'IDM' for my taste, and Clarence Park has too many meaningless short noise tracks. Empty the bones is more my style. Favorites are tracks like Wolf, Holiday as a brutality and Indigo Optimus. Great stuff.

Survivors

I believe this release is a vast improvement over his last release 'ceramics is the bomb'. This album is very deep, with glitchy, chunky beats that complement the beautiful melodies nicely. Definitely worth a listen.

Chinon

My reaction is mixed to this album. While it has very accomplished moments, I became frustrated with many of the pieces as they seemed to be too busy avoiding what was the obvious path for the piece to flow properly. On first listen the outstanding tracks to me were 'Indigo Optimius', 'empty the bones of you', 'Early mass' & 'Slow spines'. I found these to be the most thoroughly satisfying. Here Clark is doing what he does best with his icey, apocalyptic atmospheres letting his new sound flourish which I should point out is very distinctive and different from Clarence Park. All clattering beats and digital flutters with nods to hip hop and classical music. There is also something quite medievel about this album. The problem I have with this album is the issue of melody. While I enjoy these songs which are very melodic most of the others are more percussion based and don't hit the spot for me. Chris Clark has said on the WARP site that this is the last melodic work he will ever do. I find this very disheartening. This declaration seems to have been made with the presumption that melody is a bad thing. I think this is where electronica itself as a genre has hit a wall and begun to slowly destroy its own appeal. It began with Autechres continuing issue with wether melody has a proven worth within music and now this school of thinking seems to be tripping up another great artist with Chris Clark. I believe even the great Aphex Twin has hit a similar wall with his last album 'Druqks' which features plenty of beautiful melodic piano pieces alongside just as many difficult digital pieces with passable melodies by Aphex standards. I believe he has hit a wall too and the end may be nigh for the whole genre. Ultimately 'Empty the Bones of you' is exactly where Clark should be creatively but I don't believe fans will be as satisfied by this album as they will let on. To me this is a step down in form and I believe that what has caused it is the issue of melody and wether it has worth in music. I will be curious to see what Clarks next step will be. I wonder if even he will be able to stick to his word and strip his music of melody next time around. I hope to god he doesn't. Of course I wouldn't say that to my electronica friends. I'd pretend I'm all hardcore and tough. 'I don't need melody. Melody is for wusses.' ( eyes to heaven.)