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Album Review

Mick Karn More Better Different
Invisible Hands

Article written by Ed F
May 9, 2004.

I had a bad feeling about this record from the start – what concerned me is that this is a solo effort from the man who played bass in Japan. The band Japan, obviously, rather than the East Asian nation. But a bass player making a solo record? Isn’t that like the triangle player leading an orchestra?

If I am being honest, what I was really hoping for was a whole record of bass solo freakouts like Cliff Burtons masterpiece on Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All, or perhaps some Captain Birdseye ramblings in the vein of Primus’s Les Claypool. I got neither; instead, Mick’s bass gurgles like a babbling brook while atmospheric Eno kind of instrumentation and atmospheres ramble along in the background. Dated sounding first track “The Jump” reminds me of Eno and Byrne in “My Life In The Bush of Ghosts” era, other moments approaching the pomp of John Michael Jarre. If Mick Karn had performed this on a laser harp while wearing white gloves, he might have got away with it but sadly a lot of the record sounds like it has been beaten by the late 80’s stick.

As is probably not surprising, a lot of the song structures seem to hang on the bass lines, and while pleasant enough there is nothing on this record that hasn’t been done before, and probably better, by someone else.

So the initial fears came to fruition - bass players probably shouldn’t be let loose in the studio.

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