last night i finally got to go to the joy electric myspace site and hear the new song 'red will dye snows of silver' from their upcoming 'the otherly opus'. about all i could get myself to say (besides girly shreeks of glee) was 'wow.'it is very different than what he has done in the past, typically his music is very melody focused, with little or no bass or strong beat. also, the vocals have always been secondary. ronnie martin himself has said that he is not a singer, he only does enough to service the song. it seems that he has gone a very different direction for this song, and hopefully the whole ablum. there is a shift to focusing more on what can be done with vocals- and it sounds fantastic!
on his blog he has stated how rough of a process this album was to make, but the last time he said that was about 'the white songbook' which i would consider his best. so, maybe his frustration means we will be getting another masterpiece from the master of the moog!
