What the hell did I just listen to? I feel like that sentiment is exactly what the Greek band Aphrodite's Child was trying to convey with End of the World. The album is like a combination of psychedelia rock, prog rock, pop, and metal. This odd concoction sounds like it wouldn't work very well, but it surprisingly does. The constant switching between trippy, excitable moments and slow ballads works really well and I have no idea why. One part might be the vocal performance, which manages to be haunting at times, other times loud and frantic, and sometimes both. I can't really credit a name to it because multiple members of the band are credited with being vocalists but there aren't any specifics past that. All I know is that what they offer goes pretty well with the overall trippy feel of the album. One thing I do know is the keyboard (played definitively by Vangelis Papathanassiou) is easily the best aspect of the music. Much the vocal performance, it's able to take on a many diverse styles while still boosting the rest of the music with it. Pretty much everything about this album is really hard to describe in writing, so I'd really recommend for you to go and listen to it for yourself, if just to got a clue for what anything I've said means. Side note: the rating for End of the World was pretty close between a 4 and 5, and it was just barely able to nudge itself up the ladder with it's impressive cohesion despite the constant auditory chaos.
Highlights: End of the World, Don't Try to Catch a River, The Grass Is No Green, You Always Stand In My Way, Day of the Fool.
Rating: 5/6
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