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Go to the Maudlin of the Well website  Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map [Dark Symphonies - 2001]

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[this is the second part of a 2 part review. Click here to read the first part if you haven't already]

Leave your Body Map is of the same high quality as Bath and also contains some harsh parts. Some of them are quite slow and remind of many Doom Metal bands although you can be sure to hear, sooner or later, some stuff that no doom band would do.

At first I was wondering if some bandmembers weren't just dancing around during the heavier sections, but surprisingly they succeeded in fitting some 'non-metal ' instruments in those parts and it works very well most of the time.

As for the production, no complaints here! It's punchy, clear, everything is where it should be and it's not overproduced. The instruments keep their power, unlike with albums that are too polished, and you can hear that the performers are human and not machines - I guess what I'm trying to say is that the albums have an organic feel and sounds great!

These albums will appeal mostly to music fans who like to go on an unpredictable and ever-changing journey, it's not really something you can put on and say "I wanna rock!" since after some hard-rocking songs you'll get mellow stuff - and you can't say "I wanna relax to this" either since, even on "Leaving Your Body Map", there are some harsh sections that will make you jump on your seat.

In conclusion, I would not recommend to anybody to just buy one of the two albums (except if they plan on buying the other one later because of a money shortage or whatnot) since they *do* work well as a single entity and there really isn't one that is superior enough to the other to justify the purchase of only one. I suppose that in the case of people who are not used to the more extreme metal parts, Leaving Your Body Map would be a good start for them to see if they can handle it (since it's the more mellow album of the two - if only by an inch ) but to most people, I would say: "consider this a double album".

Maybe you are wondering what I meant at the beginning of my review by "This band really amounts to more than the sum if it's parts"..? Well, I meant that if this band played only metal, they would be good but nothing extraordinary - if they played uniquely any of the various styles they use they would be good, but not unique - but what they are doing now really is something special and it sounds like they took only the best parts they could come up with of each styles (since a whole album of the style of metal they play could become redundant..) and it totally works.

A Must buy!

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