Barragan

I really enjoyed this album in its entirety. If you’re a fan of Blonde Redhead or had the good fortune of seeing them live, you should definitely get this album.

Blonde Redhead is in my top 5 favorite bands ever, and I love how they've change their music and taken different directions throughout their career. Their last record "Penny Sparkle" is one of my favorite Blonde Redhead albums, as well as "23" and "Misery is a Butterfly". However, it hurts for me to say it, but I think "Barragan" lacks some effort to make it sounds more like the band's ninth studio album. Performance wise is not as strong as its predecessors. In my opinion most of it sounds more like B-sides, or could even make for a good EP as well. I tried playing the album on a loop, over and over in my car, and some of the songs grew on me. However, it's not until the end, specially with "Penultimo" where I feel the songs and the album begins to sound more like an actual LP. Again, I love this band and will see them once they come to my city.

One of my favorite bands! Love having their stuff on vinyl so I can fill the house with the great sounds! I can't say this is my favorite album of theirs, but it's pretty rad. The artwork is great and the liner notes are really unique, everything is under stickers! It's weird but cool. Happy to have added it to my collection.

I love this album. It may or may not be a concept record, but it has a mood to it, that all goes together. Dreamy, and introspective. You could fall asleep to it, but I recommend you don't. I like all their albums, to be sure, but I mostly listen to this one. That's partly my melancholy, I suppose, yet, it's not actually depressing music.

When you want a background that eventually becomes go-to music---Blonde Redhead reverberates. Gives you a place to think and feel, until you get solid enough to listen to them instead of just yourself. And at that point, their melodies will never leave you. Absolutely love them.

I don't get Barragan at all. I love love love MIAB, 23, and Penny Sparkle but have no desire to listen to this one a second time. I'm sure it has great merit, I just don't get it. Way too experimental and formless for me. I was so looking forward to this album, really disappointed. However, because I love this band and can't bear to give them one star, I'm giving three.

Great album. Moody, provocative and infectious.

Consistent. Brilliant moments. They continue to evolve and mature. They are very talented.

Nice record, too bad I had to send it back as the opening track on each side had very audible surface noise that just killed the music

This is my favourite Blonde Redhead album. Great voice, great musicianship.

First came across Blonde Redhead via a 7" vinyl single 'Flying Douglas' / 'Harmony' (Rough Trade Singles Club 45rev36) back in June 1995 and so here we are now in September 2014 with 'Barragán' which is Kazu, Amedeo & Simone's 9th studio album. After a long 4 year wait after the brilliant 'Penny Sparkle' (my fave album of theirs) their new album challenges even more & extends further from that wondrous blueprint because gone now are really any normal song structures with instead one long soundscape (10 tracks 41 min)....just one piece with no possible singles visible. Starts with the short title track, which seems to exist in a Japanese enchanted garden which moves into the dreamlike 'Lady M', & so let's not start the pyrotechnics just yet. 'Dripping' ignites some sparklers in this enchanted garden. 'Cat On Tin Roof' showcases Kazu's angelic voice in a sparse jazz setting with some scat singing. 'The One I Love' whisper-like, reflective & beautiful takes us down some Celtic folk causeway with an ending via inspired harpsichord. The first half of the album concludes with more whispering on the grunge 'No More Honey' & with its prominent bass line. These first 6 tracks delicately prepares us for the energy to follow as the album then starts to take off via the epic 'Mind To Be Had', is mainly instrumental with its transfixing electric guitar licks plus a number of weird sounding pumping instruments power the listener along. Also highly appealing is the following 6 mins 'Defeatist Anthem' being another long number consisting of 3 phases (in fact the first 3 mins of it would make a great single) with phase 3 being explosions of the noises of didgeridoo & a jaws harp. 'Penultimo' is more beauty via angelic exchanges between Kazu & Amadeo in their exploration of sound. The album concludes with 'Seven Two' which takes us back to that enchanted garden of delicate dreams. Yet another album where they have progressed & it is brilliant & breathtakingly beautiful....as they take us along one of the more incredible journeys of popular music. When you look at the large number of musical instruments to create this masterpiece then it is astonishing....even a Chamberlin. Beautiful fractured melancholy. [a few months later after repeated listening I downgraded to 4 stars because I found some of the material was just not as good as their previous three efforts...sorry]

C'est un album hallucinant, qui ne vous quittera pas ou plus au fil de vos voyages en voiture (là où nous l'apprécions le plus avec mon amie) les balades sont d'une clarté et d'un lyrisme absolu. L'élégance fragile de la voix de Kazu servie par une production léchée dans ses plus moindre recoins sonores.Un album indispensable.

un matinun caféchez moi dans ma cuisinele bruit dans la ruej'écoute ce disque magique ,ce qui est sur c'est que c'est un petit bijouet on pourra l'écouter dans 10ans rien n'aura bougé