Crippled Black Phoenix

After Goeff Barrows opened a new, successful chapter of Portishead in 2008 with his partner Beth Gibbons, he started 2009 with reinforced dedication to his label Invada and continued the 2008 success with two releases - we're talking about CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX. Bandleader Justin Greaves (ELECTRIC WIZARD) created together with Dominic Aitchison (MOGWAI), Joe Volk (GONGA), Kostas Panagiotou (PANTHEIST) and Charlotte Nicholls, songs which cuntinue where PINK FLOYD stopped with "Wish You Were Here" in 1975. You can't avoid thinking of SUPERTRAMP, CAMEL, ALAN PARSONS or YES. For those who were born a little later, the new album "200 Tons Of Bad Luck", might be the introduction to a new "old" world, beyond MOGWAI, GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR or SIGUR RÓS and not only the final access to the parental record collection. With songs that reanimate a time, which was forgotten in our "new" world, they take their audience out of every reality and into a cosmos, which appears to be wide, empty and consists only sound. Crippled Black Phoenix transport deepest emotions - the perfect soundtrack to say "Good bye".

"The master of absorbing ostinati and inspiring sound ground play exactly the music, which Pink Floyd possibly had in mind, if they were mid twenty today. (…) But the result is phenomenal!!/ - Eclipsed, 9 of 10 points

"If there wouldn't be the drumming of band founder Justin Greaves, even Floyd experts couldn't be sure, if that wasn't old demo material - or Gilmour was just graped by the lust of experimentation after his composed solo album (…)"/ - Visions, 9 of 10 points

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