Search - Hugo Largo :: Mettle

Like floating in water...

Manny Hernandez | Bay Area, CA | 12/05/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Recorded under Brian Eno's Opal Records in 1989, this second album by Hugo Largo contains the unmistakable beautiful singing of now-popular Mimi (recognized for her participation with Moby and her solo album). It will blow your mind... Their sound feels like floating in water, or sitting in your mother's womb."

Beautiful, but strangely detatched.

P. J. | Kansas City, MO | 11/18/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This album is one of those that keeps percolating up through my CD collection. Four Brothers and Hot Day are standout tracks, but frankly, they are all very similar. That's not a bad thing; it has that Dark-Side-Of-The-Moon-ish feeling where all the tracks run together and wash over you as a single entity. The otherworldly lyrics, deliberately disjointed and vague, add to the feeling of letting your ordinary life completely behind when you listen to this album. The instrumentation has a subtly dramatic, nearly too-sparse, hollow feeling, with little melody. You won't walk away whistling anything from Mettle. The result is an album that takes us to someplace where we can look back on our everyday lives and emotions with fresh but strangely detached eyes, In the process, Mettle doesn't replace that connection with much of anything. It's obviously the intended effect, but it's like caressing a loved one with hands covered in bubble wrap. It's interesting, but too desensitizing to get addicted to."