The Legendary Pink Dots are just that, legendary, but honestly, I have never been a big fan. The LPD has produced some really cool stuff, and without hearing all of their albums, my opinion is based off of what I have heard.
The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse is an album from 1990, that has some pretty decent psychedelic/goth/progressive rock; if you're into that combination of genres. This album, 12 tracks and a little over an hour long, pretty much comes in under the radar. I am not a fan of goth rock, and the majority of the vocals on this album have a strong early goth rock style to it; think Christian Death. I picked this album to listen to, in order to review, because I do have a digital copy of an old 7-inch split they did some time ago, that was bad ass; but after I heard this, I was not impressed. I will say though, this album does have some absolutely wonderful experimental/early-industrial sounding rhythms that comprise most tracks. After each song all I could think was that if they didn't sing, this album would be pretty good. The LPD do a great job composing these experimental rhythms and you can tell they took their time in order to find the exact sound they wanted to comprise their "drum" track; but that's it. I was not impressed with the album as a whole; only 4 of the songs do I actually like the music that is being played, and none of the vocals in the album grabbed me.
I don't want to say that The LPD are a crappy band, because they're not, but their music only speaks to a certain audience, and unfortunately I am not from that crowd. If your not a fan of Goth Rock or 80's-ish Industrial, then you might not need to seek out anything from The LPD, but if you do like that, you'll probably enjoy.
Official Score- 1.75/5
(I sat here trying to figure out how to rate this, I really liked the rhythms and experimental sounds and contemplated rating it a 2/5, but since I will never listen to this again, figured that 2/5 was just a little too high.)
