Shiner
Lula Divinia


4.2
excellent

Review

by YoYoMancuso STAFF
February 4th, 2023 | 116 replies


Release Date: 1997 | Tracklist

Review Summary: I've been reading too much Cormac McCarthy lately

The man sauntered into the pitch darkness of the edifice with his head held high and his grip tightened around a jet black case. He fumbled across the cold featureless wall for the lightswitch until an upward twitch of his muscle fibers birthed a primordial lightning strike of illumination across the confines of the Kansas City Missouri recording studio. It was tan everywhere you looked and it felt like walking into one of those ships in a bottle. The case was a guitar case and it had a guitar in it and the man knelt down and removed the guitar from the case and rested it against the stack of amplifiers against the wall. They were sprawling and infinite and seemed to regard him with some sort of ancient eldritch wisdom. His contemporaries trailed in behind him like the slithering heads of a hydra clamoring for a fresh kill or perhaps some much deserved mainstream recognition.

Dont think we have much time today gentlemen, the man solemnly stated. He was still kneeling.

Whats the rush Allen. We’re professionals here. We get the job done.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Lets make this time count is all I’m saying.

Counting was easy for the drummer. The drummer was fair skinned and unassuming in appearance and named after a stock exchange. His deceiving appearance housed a power so seismic it could produce vibrations that resonated up to twenty five years into the future but he was wary of altering timelines so he tried to conceal his true nature. Something about butterflies and their effects. The other three hydra heads regarded him with bewildered astonishment and bowed down at the altars of Marshall and Orange. They picked up the quarter inch cables off of the floor and inserted the cables into their guitars and then knelt down again and inserted the other ends of the cables into the amplifier which grabbed forcible hold of the weak and spineless input signal and converted into something altogether more fearsome and enveloping and beefy and simultaneously exquisite and gorgeous. The rapidly peaking and troughing cymatics displayed a capability to bruise. Coupled with an ability to comfort and heal. If the patterns aligned just right. These effects merged as one. Tesla himself would see God in this moment.

Alright Timmy Boy. Count us off.

And a one and a two and a.

Then Shiner proceeded to make one of the best fucking albums of the 1990s.



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Comments:Add a Comment 
YoYoMancuso
Staff Reviewer
February 4th 2023


19316 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

this one's for you mort. check shiner.



also The Passenger and Stella Maris are phenomenal books and a worthy (likely) sign-off for America's greatest living novelist

Voivod
Staff Reviewer
February 4th 2023


10937 Comments


Review summary is gold

egads
February 4th 2023


150 Comments


why is this shwoing up in user reviews

Mort.
February 4th 2023


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

im faster than you

Koris
Staff Reviewer
February 4th 2023


21957 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"why is this shwoing up in user reviews"



Because staff reviews of old albums appear in the user review section

Mort.
February 4th 2023


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

this album dominated my most listened to playlist of 2022, and shiner were my top band of the year



check shiner

YoYoMancuso
Staff Reviewer
February 4th 2023


19316 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

we shining bitches

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
February 4th 2023


5664 Comments


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYKdgyEuxC8

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
February 4th 2023


62343 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

this album is good

this fanfic is a review

this is a saturday

xxm
February 4th 2023


257 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Well done. Wonderful album.

YoYoMancuso
Staff Reviewer
February 4th 2023


19316 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

"this is a saturday"



australia begs to differ

DavidYowi
February 4th 2023


3512 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

killer rev. Congrats on staff YoYo

YoYoMancuso
Staff Reviewer
February 4th 2023


19316 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Thanks so much!

Mort.
March 9th 2023


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

warms my heart to see how the love for this album has exploded

Ryus
March 9th 2023


37886 Comments


my "check bladee" campaign has been highly unsuccessful
any tips mort

Mort.
March 9th 2023


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

make a humourous list that inexplicably garners 80 something comments





but being serious, i think mine was more likely to succeed as sputnik is more keen for man rock than they are for man drainage









Mort.
March 9th 2023


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

also damn im so far behind on my bladee, heard red light and eversince and nothing else since

Ryus
March 9th 2023


37886 Comments


deep down i knew that was the answer :^[

u havent heard icedancer? u are in for a treat

Mort.
March 9th 2023


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

nope! will add some bladee to my spotify saved albums now, its been a while

calmvoid
March 20th 2023


20 Comments


well this is awesome



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