Search - Tangerine Dream :: Inferno

A new Tangerine Dream album?! Nope...not what you think....

Ranger77 | MI | 03/16/2003

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Vocals + TD - Everything that makes TD good = a marginal album. Not a terrible album if you are a Tangerine Dream purist, but a very mediocre one at best."

WARNING-A trip to Inferno might send you to La La Land.

Jim Reed | New York | 02/05/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Tangerine Dream combines their music with pretty vocals and it's entrancing at first but the cd's middle section lacks variety turning the music into a sleep inducing drone before recovering nicely in the final tracks.My wife summed up this cd inadvertantly because when the cd started she said "What's that pretty music?" and fell asleep on the couch and didn't wake up until the 2nd to last song.It's not as bad as everyone thinks it just could've used more spice (2nd part of TD's Dante project Purgatorio is better )and you have to keep in mind we're missing the visuals of the live productions of this music.Not for all tastes but not a total washout either."

Not as bad as you might think

Jesse Gordon | United States | 09/12/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"As a Tangerine Dream listener who enjoyed Tyger (shudder!), I listened to Inferno with perhaps more optimism than most TD fans here. Though I was not disappointed, I was reminded once again that vocals in any Tangerine Dream album must be handled very, very delicately. Certainly, the vocal work on this album is quite competent, and half of it is quite "on the mark" as far as meshing with the music goes...but I don't think (in this case) it was as appropriate, as say on Exit, where a minimal amount of lyrics was used on "Kiew Mission."I, for one, do not think of Inferno as a "bad" Tangerine Dream album. It's certainly more preferable than Rockoon, as well as several of the mass-produced TD soundtracks of the late 1980s.I think the major problem here is the lyrics; in my opinion, TD music is best served in the instrumental sense. The melodies on Inferno are very powerful indeed, and I think they would have fared much better without the distraction of the singer(s), who have lovely voices, but, well, seem just a bit out of place. It would have been better to have allowed the music itself to tell the story.That said, I am nevertheless pleased to have added Inferno to my TD collection. Decades after the band was first founded, new directions are still being explored, and that's a major hook."