Cinematic

Lebowski

LEBOWSKI is a four piece band from Poland, not to be confused by the excellent movie […]
By Fede "FedeRock" Taich
May 19, 2011
Lebowski - Cinematic album cover

LEBOWSKI is a four piece band from Poland, not to be confused by the excellent movie "Big Lebowski". This band plays as they wrote about themselves - A wide spectrum of music and boy is that true! From Arabian nights' style to extreme Metal, this band did it all and instrumentally. This album is what you can call modern Prog Metal elevator music.

Right from the first few notes of the album, you can hear we're dealing with a big bunch of musicians. The pieces, and I call them pieces and not songs because they didn't feel like songs to me, were very well composed and very well built, interesting textures of sounds, a mix of old and new, fusion and more straight forward stuff. Mainly those were good pieces.

And now I will come forward with what was not good. The album felt like a soundtrack to a very very bizarre movie. The tracks were really weird and in some points hard to listen if you're not in the mood. There is a great use of strange eastern instruments, vocal lines and stuff like that that just sounded weird like on "137 sec" for instance. There is a female voice on the first part of the song that was just uncanny. The rest of the track just sounded like BJORK but with a Nintendo kind of sound twist to it.

In conclusion, if you like experimental and very weird stuff you'll definitely love this one. Don't get me wrong, the level of musicianship here is amazing and the sound is killer, but for me it's just a little too much, too strange and hard to listen too after one or two songs. It's just an album that you need the right mood for. 

6 / 10

Had Potential

"Cinematic" Track-listing:

1. Trip To Doha
2. 137 sec.
3. Cinematic
4. Old British Spy Movie
5. Iceland
6. Encore
7. Aperitif For Breakfast (O.M.R.J)
8. Spiritual Machine
9. The Storyteller (Svensson)
10. Human Error

Lebowski Lineup:

Marcin Grzegorczyk - Guitars
Marcin Luczaj - Synths
Marek Zak - bass
Krzysztof Pakuła - Drums

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