Album Rating: 4.5

Agreed



Tbf I wouldn't mind seeing a mathrock band manage to pull off neoclassical scales lol

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

I'm not going to pretend to know something about songwriting or "compositional depth", but what bores me in this particular album is the pervasive use of the same type of chord progression 1-b6-5 over and over and over again as the backbone for almost each song, and then the ad infinitum arpeggiating around those chords, mostly in natural minor scales. I mean, it's entirely OK if you like that kind of thing, but to me it's not very musically adventurous.

"t/t" has 8 minutes+ of A minor chording, riffing, trem picking and arpeggiating everything around that chord/key in the natural minor scale; chord progression is Am - F - E - Am with F and E only serving to return and stay with Am and accentuating that. No tempo changes can keep that exciting for so long. Basically it's one long backing track of Am to a tech soloing showoff.

"Solus" starts off the same this time revolving around A#/Bb minor, similar chord progression A#m - F#-F - A#m and a little maj7 scales thrown in for minimal variation.

"La Veuve et le Martyr": same kickoff, only now in Gm, progression Gm - Eb - D - (A-) Gm. Hardly strays from that line.

First three tracks each have exactly the same measurements between the chords.

"Pantheum": everything around A#m in much the same manner; chord progression A#m - B - C# - D# (E) - A#m. A bit more creativity in the scales and arpeggios? Nah not really.

"Chair et de haine": nice acoustic intro F#m with more 7s - always minor but this is the first time where they venture into different keys more + more variation in progression, esp. in the first half; notably Eb

"Sonata en Mi Mineur": in Em obviously; despite the nice decoration and arrangements, there's the stock progression of Em (A) C-B and not much more than that.

"Ataraxie": key of F#m, progression F#m - C# - D - C#. There's the 1 - b6 - 5 scheme again + natural minor scale.

"Soif brulante": in Bm now, with progression Bm - E - G - F# (an E thrown in for variation); one of the less blueprinted pieces; but no adventurous key changes

"In'El" is in fact several songs/movements in somewhat different keys, following a very similar internal pattern. Neoclassical combinations of natural minor and maj7 scales, some incredible parts for sure. I'd say this track is a good summary of the album.

In sum: just listen to "In'El" and maybe add "Chair et de haine".

Bro why did you write all of that

Also Obscura rules

Album Rating: 3.0

‘I'm not going to pretend to know something about songwriting or "compositional depth", but what bores me…’

Plazz goes on to dissect the album’s compositional make-up in not-insignificant detail. Really, it sure sounds like you might understand SOMETHING about composition? 😄

I mean to a pleb such as myself this is dangerously close to looking like indecipherable nonsense.

I suppose that also means I cannot possibly tell if you were in fact talking gibberish!

Album Rating: 4.0

That was basically a review lol

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

tbh that comment bored me more than the album

"I'm not going to pretend to know something about songwriting but hold my beer fam"

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Fair enough, I'd give my comment a 2.5 cause it lacks accurate terminology.

Point I wanted to make is the music is repetitive in a way that doesn't sit well with me.

Album Rating: 3.0

lmao

good on ya deplazz

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

damn i wish i could write reviews like that

Album Rating: 4.5

Kind of getting into more melodic Tech Death, kinda liked it on the first listen. Especially the Flamenco stuff was a nice change of pace

Album Rating: 4.5

Also the farty bass reminded me a lot of Steve DiGiorgio, especially of his style on Individual Thought Patterns, which is always a good thing

Album Rating: 4.5

Man that kinda musical depth goes way over my head, though fucking impressive lad.



My take: This has the good noodles and I like the good noodles.

Album Rating: 4.5

Though tbf this has a lot of neat textural and rhythmic funny business going on with the way they tag-team in the fretless bass and acoustic guitar, and the pinch harmonics, which analysing the keys and chords in isolation ends up skirting over. Point taken though.

Album Rating: 2.0

Ugh not even out of the first track and I'm exhausted



Every time they find something nice and groovy for a few bars they fling a scale-wank deluge at it jfc

Album Rating: 4.3

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cock

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

"I'm not going to pretend to know something about songwriting but hold my beer fam"



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Album Rating: 4.5

Great review ! I also want to point out the album's name is Gloire Eternelle and not Glorie Éternelle since you wrote it wrong 4 times in the review.

Album Rating: 3.5

'Gloire éternelle' is correct, Sput just can't handle accents