No Balance Palace

I know Kashmir from way back (The Good Life (1999), Zitilites (2003)) and saw them live multiple times in the early 2000s. Later in 2010 I saw them again with a singer who lost his long hair and looked a lot like actor Christopher Nash Elliott (Get A Life, How I Met Your Mother). That was a bit distracting and not a compliment, but that concert was (musically) good. This album was already out at that time, but I missed it. Too bad as it is a solid album with great songs and support from two of my heroes (Bowie & Reed). Nice entry, thanks!

Really nice sound on this... I enjoyed it tremendously. I can say I liked the whole album but I really took notice from the jump with Kalifornia - and She's Made of Chalk took me to another place. Terrific album!

Pretty nice Danish indie from the noughts, taking a page out of Radiohead, MBV or even Interpol, but doing it very well. In that league of European acts from that time period having a distinctive knack for cool rock, Kashmir also remind me of Belgian band Ghinzu (check them out of you don't know them). Equally distinctive, Tony Visconti's production and the David Bowie and Lou Reed features. As great as all that is, it's not enough for me to include *No Balance Palace* in my own potential list of 1001 essential albums. This admittedly well-crafted record is still a little too derivative overall for that, and 1001 is a finite number, you know. But if you go to 2001, Kashmir would surely deserve a slot there. And actually, if really you want to talk about indie from the first decade of the 21st century, they deserve it far more that an act such as Doves, for instance, which yet have *two* of their albums included in the original list. So well done, lads. And thanks for the suggestion, user. --- 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 4. 8.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3.5). Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ----- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 40 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 49 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 95 (including this one) ---- Émile, as-tu lu ma dernière réponse sous la review de "Chet" ?

Honestly sounds like a lost Radiohead LP with some Interpol thrown in – definitely loses steam in the back half and gets a bit diffuse, but I was blown away by the guitar work and orchestration here. Brought me back to that early-aughts indie sound in the best way possible, and I appreciated the creeping unease that saturated most of the tracks here. Great add, excited to see what else this band has in their discography!

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Kalifornia, Jewel drop, The cynic, She’s made out of chalk, No balance palace

With a Bowie and a Lou Reed appearance I was ready to be all in on this unfamiliar-to-me band, and it was certainly all right, but did feel to me like something of an amalgam of turn of the century mainstream alternative acts. There may have been more going on lyrically than I picked up on in one not terribly attentive listen. I wouldn't be averse to hearing more from this band.

I've heard this type of album on the user list and OG list many, many times now. It's pretty bland sounding alt rock that it isn't really doing anything wrong but isn't doing anything interesting. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

Guessing this will be some kind of indie rock? Ok yep, it is. Not too bad tbh. Just a bit of light-hearted indie rock from the 00s. 3/5.

Denmark Mentioned!!!!🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰 Damn, they got a Bowie feature :0 These danish bands, just like Mew, has some weird extremely depressing quality that isn't found anywhere else. 3

A pretty decent alt indie rock album. They definitely took influence from Radiohead on this album with the softer singing style like Yorke and instrumental pieces in the middle. Overall it’s pretty decent and some cool features but there isn’t much in this album that had me wanting to revisit it. 6.3/10

This played while I listened!

Rock, Alternative rock. Rollo. Un 2.