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DavidYowi
December 1st 2021


3512 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm in the same camp. I'm a little disappointed by it but I'm really glad it exists at all

Sowing
Moderator
December 1st 2021


43956 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

this rules, could easily grow to a 4.5

can't believe I'm just hearing about this artist now

DavidYowi
December 1st 2021


3512 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

You'd love everything this band has done Sowing

Sowing
Moderator
December 1st 2021


43956 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

They seem really artsy fartsy but also skilled af

LeddSledd
December 1st 2021


7444 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

check Focus, it's much different than this but also carries the same stylistic DNA

DavidYowi
December 1st 2021


3512 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Seconding Ledd. I also feel you'd get a real kick out of The Portal Tapes. This band has pretty textures

WatchItExplode
December 1st 2021


10456 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Diamond light body sucks a little bit of energy out of the home stretch otherwise this thing is basically flawless

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
December 1st 2021


18257 Comments

Album Rating: 3.9 | Sound Off

— They seem really artsy fartsy but—



There’s a super airy quality going on.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
December 1st 2021


60405 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

check Focus [123]

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
December 1st 2021


18257 Comments

Album Rating: 3.9 | Sound Off

Also. Focus [456]

LeddSledd
December 1st 2021


7444 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

not sold on the whole spacey robot aesthetic here and a lot of this goes in one ear and out the other. don't get the production complaints



might be a grower

Get Low
December 1st 2021


14252 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

I was hoping this was going to be djent.

StormChaser
December 1st 2021


2115 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"I was hoping this was going to be djent." I was hoping it would be predominantly banjo oriented



But seriously Traced In Air > Focus all day long even though I love Focus to bits.



As for the synth bass, it was questionable on the first listen, but it fits well into the sound of this album with the whole coldness and distance thing going on

Frost15
December 1st 2021


2953 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I used to cringe when people compared Traced in Air with Focus but as years passed TiA grew on me a lot and now I can even understand someone liking it over Focus, although I don't

CottonSalad
December 1st 2021


2467 Comments


Traced in Air is best Cynic yeah...totally check that one Sowing - it's similar in tone to this, but with more "bops"

Kompys2000
Emeritus
December 1st 2021


9456 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Awesome review xeno, for how measured it was I'm now officially planning on checking this, as well as traced in Air cuz why not

mechamagica
December 1st 2021


628 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

i think sowing would liked traced in air a lot

parksungjoon
December 1st 2021


47234 Comments


or re-traced, or carbon based anatomy, or the portal tapes

all good stuff

Kompys2000
Emeritus
December 1st 2021


9456 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Okay babes is there a case to be made for listening to re-traced instead of traced in Air or should I be epic and just check the original

parksungjoon
December 1st 2021


47234 Comments


well re-traced only has alternate versions of four of the songs from traced, but they are quite different indeed

ideally just listen to both, it barely takes an hour



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