Album Rating: 3.5

Zingbong mannnn

Album Rating: 3.5

The run from Changa Malasa through to Epiphlioy is just incredible

Album Rating: 2.5

this is pretty good a bit polished tho

Album Rating: 2.0

"Over the 30+ years of their existence, Ozric Tentacles have come up with a recipe that constantly keeps them away from making a really bad album. Technicians of the Sacred is no exception (especially for the summer time), but it is severely lacking when compared to previous OT albums (especially the '90s affairs); The (almost complete) dominance of the electronic/trippy elements over the prog rock ones, explains in full the absence of really thoughtful jams (in contrast to albums like Become The Other)."



Voivod, I totally agree with your soundoff, not really a bad album, but it's too long and sometimes pointless.

Album Rating: 3.5

Thanks for reviewing this, it's definitely their best release in many years. Loving the psytrance elements - somehow they manage to not sound cheesy at all

Album Rating: 2.0

I will never understand any of their albums after 2000. Their era from 1989-2000 still is so awesome and they still belong to my 3 most favourite bands but it is frustrating that I can't get into their newer albums from Spirals In Hyperspace on.



I tried my best and I always try to be open for everything but this album here just sounds uninspired and completely different from their 90's albums. I like the synths here somtimes but I don'T like how the bass guitar and the drums sound and Ed's guitar doesn't sound as spacey anymore.



After 2000 they got more and more electronic and I don't like it. I really love psybient / psychill but the Ozrics were at best when they played psychedelic ROCK with excellent synth work here and there in every song back then, I loved the how the guitar and the synth worked together...



But whenever I listen to the newer albums it always sounds like I am wasting my time..

Album Rating: 4.0

Eh, I love electronic music so I'll probably like this

Album Rating: 3.0

I think this album and Space for the Earth are a big leap forward and I think they are the best they’ve done since The Hidden Step but the polished production just robs their music of any impact. Everything is saturated in a spacey, gooey reverb that just smothers their sound. It’s the guitar work and the drums and other percussive instruments that really suffer because of this. That organic raw sound that they once captured in those exotic instruments, the guitar solos and snappy jazz drumming - it’s all drowned out by the synths now. I still think this is a remarked improvement but the over-reliance on a more techno/dance style sound means this could have been so much better if they’d eased off on the electronics just a bit and allowed real instruments to shine when they held their moment. Drums sound so empty now and bereft if life, and guitar solos lacking any emotive power. Just a few tweaks and some discipline when it comes to twiddling those synth knobs and we’d surely be back in the realm of a worthwhile album.

Album Rating: 3.5

i'll take one smiling potion please