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Blackbox | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 27 October 2017 | |||
Recorded | 2016 | |||
Studio | Duper Studio & Degaton Studios | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 47:45 | |||
Label | Degaton Records | |||
Major Parkinson chronology | ||||
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Blackbox is the fourth studio album of the Norwegian band Major Parkinson. It was released on 27 October 2017. The album features a new lineup and has an emphasis on dark, ambient electronica mixed with pop and prog rock. [1] [2]
The critical reception to the album has been positive. [3] [4] [5] In 2023, Loudwire mentioned the album in their list of the best progressive rock & metal albums of each year since 1983. [6]
Just like Twilight Cinema, Blackbox features many cultural references, mostly from 19th and 20th century historical figures. The opening title "Lover, Lower Me Down!" includes a play on The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, while Hemingway himself is later mentioned in "Baseball". Several philosophers are named in "Isabel: A Report to an Academy" - Plato, Nietsche, Heidegger, Russell, while works by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and Hieronymus Bosch are referenced.