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10/10 , love it .
Been listening to it alot lately, hope they release new stuff soon.
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[b]Gomez: Split the Difference[/b]
Their songs are good, some of it cheers me up whenever I'm in a bit of a shit mood.
8/10
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Pink Floyd - The Wall
Another one of those beautiful albums where you can just relax and go on a journey. I still think Dark Side of the Moon is my favourite Floyd album so far but The Wall is definitely a close second, amazingness.
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9/10
There's a quality to this album/the band in general that's really unique. Great music.
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6/10
Though Cage The Elephant is easily a talented band, most of the songs on the album sound relatively similar.
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As Tall As Lions - As Tall As Lions (August 8, 2006)
Listen to them. :iia: and :krad2:.
[b]Rating:[/b] 9/10
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6/10
Though Cage The Elephant is easily a talented band, most of the songs on the album sound relatively similar.[/QUOTE]
Idunno if you've listened to their second Album yet, but there's a lot more variety in Thank You Happy Birthday.
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Not an album but an EP. It's post-hardcore, with some pretty heavy guitar, breakdowns and screams/growls but also some pop-rocky aspects. I personally love the heavier songs, but this isn't many people's idea of good music. However my opinion on it gets an 8/10
Personal favourite: Dragging dead bodies
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Not an album but an EP. It's post-hardcore, with some pretty heavy guitar, breakdowns and screams/growls but also some pop-rocky aspects. I personally love the heavier songs, but this isn't many people's idea of good music. However my opinion on it gets an 8/10
Personal favourite: Dragging dead bodies[/QUOTE]
Most of those songs are also on Dying Is Your Latest Fashion, a really enjoyable album by the way.
Not Good Enough For Truth In Cliche is probably my favourite song from Escape The Fate.
This War Is Ours is a decent album with a few enjoyable songs, their latest album is absolute shit.
[QUOTE=Franke_R!?;30812152]Most of those songs are also on Dying Is Your Latest Fashion, a really enjoyable album by the way.
Not Good Enough For Truth In Cliche is probably my favourite song from Escape The Fate.
This War Is Ours is a decent album with a few enjoyable songs, their latest album is absolute shit.[/QUOTE]
The newest album is absolutely atrocious, The Guillotine 3 is alright but apart from that it's all studio-produced garbage. Ronnie wrote stuff from the heart and it's a shame they can't carry on.
Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliché is one of the first songs I learned (On drums) :v:
I agree with your opinion on TWIO also (unsurprisingly), I like a few of the songs but they totally changed for the worse.
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Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
9/10
Hip-Hop with great beats and nice uses of samples. One of the most eccentric albums I've heard all year. It's hard to explain in any more detail why this album is great, it just is.
Boris - Absolutego
65 minutes of drone awesomeness
my brain liked it
[editline]1st July 2011[/editline]
10/10 btw
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William Basinski - Vivian & Ondine
I like to visualize music sometimes, especially when there's no vocals or traditional instruments and it's pure sound. Sometimes music "looks" really 2 dimensional, like a series of patterns. William Basinski's soundscapes sound like they're surrounding me completely from all sides. It's like my mind is swimming through the music. very hypnotic and beautiful. not much I remember except there being a repeating melody and the hypnotic feeling of the music.
4/5
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[b]"Imperivm" by Ictus
8.5/10[/b]
Great album. One long song, clocking in at 39 minutes. I'd call it a neocrust album, crust punk and probably post-metal in this case. Quite proggy as well. If you like bands like Fall of Efrafa, The Ocean, Neurosis etc then this is definitely worth checking out.
The whole song's been uploaded on youtube [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYim-vVdqFg]here[/url] if anyone's interested :buddy:
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Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures - 1979
1/10
This album is the true root of the drone genre. It all started here with the god awful vocals. A curse on music forever that would lead to a string of the most terrible acts the industry has ever seen. This album spawned the living menace we face today. Some of you may have taken kindly to it, but you are simply wooed by the hispter cred it wafts under your smelly hairy noses.
This album is a travesty.
Where do I begin? I already begun. The vocals. Devoid of emotion, seeming to have been read off a sheet of paper into a microphone before being sent off to the shelves. But not before they lay beneath the bored voice some lethargic instrumental, about as exciting as the abysmal album cover.
This is where music comes to die.
Album earns one point for being consistent in it's overwhelming shittiness.[/QUOTE]
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wow, that's the worst article of music criticism I've ever seen.
[editline]2nd July 2011[/editline]
wait no I'm being trolled for sure
i will crush him with my overwhelming sadness!
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free II
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The band that does not disappoint. I think it's better than the first Land of the Free album, which is great. Kai Hansens vocals seem to be getting better as he is older.
8/10
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7/10. Really fun for a blast of Quake 3 but a couple tracks are meh.
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8/10. Definetely their best, although it's got a far different feel than that of AVO.
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10/10
This sly motherfucker practically invented cartoon music; pretty much all of that iconic Looney Toons music was brought to you in part or by whole by Raymond Scott, but a lot of people don't recognize him as his famed waned later in his life. However, along with his successful Warner Bros career and work in composition he was one of the greatest pioneers of electronic music to ever live.
It's remarkable how similar this sounds to a modern-day avant-garde piece, which is a testament to how ahead of his time Raymond Scott was. Some tracks are chilling powerhouses, others are eerie droning, but all of them make you feel like you're in some 1950's concept of the future that has gone horribly wrong; it's an absolutely delicious sounding album where even the somewhat boring parts feel enthralling. Don't expect the tracks to be as "dominant" and "forceful" as more recent electronic albums, but make no mistake they are compelling in their own way.
[editline]3rd July 2011[/editline]
Also this album is probably more famous from the sampling that J-Dilla did from it.
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Van der Saar - Red Circle
It's like Mogwai and Bon Iver had a lovechild.
8/10
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[B]The Naked and Famous - Passive me, Aggressive You[/B]
A nice debut electro-pop album from New Zealand outfit The Naked and Famous that hits the right spots musically, mixing synths with guitars to create tracks that are addictively listenable. The only ''let-down'' is ''A Wolf In Geek's Clothing'' which changes the tone for something heavier but doesn't sully the album overall, the strongest track in the band's hit ''Young Blood'', used everywhere from parties to TV shows to end of season montages on sports shows.
[B]Key Track:[/B] Young Blood
[B]Overall Rating: 8/10[/B]
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[B]The Naked and Famous - Passive me, Aggressive You[/B]
A nice debut electro-pop album from New Zealand outfit The Naked and Famous that hits the right spots musically, mixing synths with guitars to create tracks that are addictively listenable. The only ''let-down'' is ''A Wolf In Geek's Clothing'' which changes the tone for something heavier but doesn't sully the album overall, the strongest track in the band's hit ''Young Blood'', used everywhere from parties to TV shows to end of season montages on sports shows.
[B]Key Track:[/B] Young Blood
[B]Overall Rating: 8/10[/B][/QUOTE]
I'd wager to say that The Naked and Famous is the new (old) poppy MGMT.
[QUOTE=Artemis;30866973]I'd wager to say that The Naked and Famous is the new (old) poppy MGMT.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like there's some influence of MGMT in the album, just as long as they don't follow the same path and produce an album like Congratulations.
[QUOTE=Carling;30866987]Sounds like there's some influence of MGMT in the album, just as long as they don't follow the same path and produce an album like Congratulations.[/QUOTE]
:(
I really like Congratulations, just not in the "party time naow" way that I like Oracular Spectacular.
[QUOTE=Artemis;30867090]:(
I really like Congratulations, just not in the "party time naow" way that I like Oracular Spectacular.[/QUOTE]
I really couldn't get into Congratulations.
[QUOTE=Carling;30867120]I really couldn't get into Congratulations.[/QUOTE]
It's a totally different sound from Oracular, but imo it still has a very good sound. It's just plain old psych rock/pop.
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Autechre - Oversteps
Probably my second favourite autechre album right next to Tri Repetae. they prove that unlike their contemporaries who have either burned out or disappeared (IE Aphex Twin and Squarepusher) Autechre still have the will to push their sound into a new direction. what's so great about oversteps is that it doesn't sound like what people would call "IDM" ie 90's experimental-techno. Autechre checks it on the first track and then nails it and puts it to death. Gone are their marks like weird noise bursts or out-of-time drum workouts. Instead smooth chirping lilts and impossibly deep post-dubstep-before-it-existed basslines. Their melodies sometimes spiral into rabbit-holes then come back like a pop album chewed up and spit out like computer code.
starting out the album, r ess has true fear and menace underneath it sounding like a big city at night and doing industrial music like many before them have tried to do.
ilanders chugs like sludge and buries its surprisingly melodic tune under thick goo. what follows is known(1) which starts with a haunting harpsichord and gets followed by a harp. surprisingly "acoustic" for autechre you might say, but the shit hits the fan with a synth that sounds like it's being choked.
pt2ph8 is a soft ballad that fuzzes out softly and quite a nice break from its horrifying predecessor and is followed by qplay, a hip-hop track buried under FM buzzes and proceeds with a soft glow and gets led out by see on see, an even softer track.
all this softness is abruptly broken by the death-hop of Treale. Treale grooves even though it sounds like it really shouldn't and gets led out with os veix3 which continues the theme of Treale in a softer way.
i don't wanna spoil the whole album but i'll definitely say that is a defining album in autechre cannon and it's a shame it took me such a long time to actually "get it". now that i do i love it.
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5 samples of sum: 5.
Not sure if I rated this one yet.
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Demon Cleaner - The Freeflight
Obvious Kyuss-inspired stoner band from Sweden, but as disappointing as that may sound at first, this band is actually pretty good.
The vocals work on every track, the fuzzy guitar sounds great and the riffs really rock.
5/5 wierd leaves
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