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Last Active 04-10-18 8:53 pm
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Average Rating: 3.69
Rating Variance: 0.75
Objectivity Score: 72%
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5.0 classic
Car Bomb Centralia
Cheval De Frise Cheval De Frise
Circa Survive Juturna
Daughters Hell Songs
Into the Moat The Campaign
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Protest the Hero Fortress
Radiohead Kid A
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children

4.5 superb
Avi Buffalo Avi Buffalo
Bjork Homogenic
Daughters Daughters
If Hell Songs is a sociopath wearing a straight jacket with a crazy look in his eye, this new effort is that same sociopath ripping of that straight jacket, revealing nothing but a speedo with 'PARTY' in huge letters across it.
Delorean Subiza
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness
Eyedea and Abilities First Born
Fever Ray Fever Ray
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Polyenso One Big Particular Loop
Tame Impala Lonerism
Toro Y Moi Causers of This
Wye Oak Shriek

4.0 excellent
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect
Brand New Daisy
Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis
Cloacal Kiss Easter
Cult of Luna Vertikal
First time hearing these guys. Impressed for sure.
Cutting Pink With Knives Populuxxe
Cynic Traced in Air
Gaza He Is Never Coming Back
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
Kissy Face Fashion Faux Pas Sexual Predators
Mew A Triumph for Man
Oceana Clean Head
Looking at this in comparison to previous efforts of the band is going to cause some disappointment, given the complete genre change. I've found that looking at new releases through a lens of comparison to old releases isn't the best way to approach music. So, taking this for what it is, I can definitely appreciate the new direction.
Opeth Still Life
Plebeian Grandstand How Hate is Hard to Define
Poison the Well The Tropic Rot
Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
Returning We Hear the Larks Far-Stepper/Of Wide Sea
Rolo Tomassi Hysterics
Rolo Tomassi Cosmology
The Bled Heat Fetish
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo
Disorganised? Incoherent? You don't have an ear for the style, apparently, because it's irrefutable that these guys put a lot of effort and time into the music. It's not at all lacking of structure, perhaps just lacking of 4/4 timing you can bob your head to.
Branch out a bit, then see if it's a 2.5...

3.5 great
Ahleuchatistas What You Will
Intricate, has flavor in parts. Kind of has a habit of trying to pique the same emotional responses, sort of repetitive in a thematic sense. Obviously that's just them adhering to their style but it can get bland. Not really awe-inspiring.
CocoRosie Coconuts, Plenty of Junk Food
Best vocal interplay of any of their works in my opinion. I haven't exactly listened to them extensively either but they caught my attention most with this release
CocoRosie Grey Oceans
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II
Daughters Canada Songs
Glassjaw Coloring Book
Kayo Dot Coyote
Kayo Dot Stained Glass
Kayo Dot Hubardo
Kayo Dot Coffins on Io
Nosaj Thing Drift
Opeth Watershed
Porcupine Tree The Incident
The Bled Found in the Flood
The Chinese Stars Listen to Your Left Brain
Its fun and the vocalist is sweet. The fact that they have a fairly confined structure but can keep one entertained for the entire duration is not so easy to do these days within their genre.
Thrice Beggars
Veda The Weight of an Empty Room
Widowspeak Almanac

3.0 good
Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals
August Burns Red Messengers
Chiodos Illuminaudio
Circa Survive On Letting Go
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
Cutting Pink With Knives Oh Wow!
Dysrhythmia Psychic Maps
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic
Neon Indian Psychic Chasms
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Protest the Hero Scurrilous
Tame Impala Innerspeaker
The Chariot Long Live

2.5 average
After the Burial Rareform
Not exactly pretentious, but a bit oversold and a bit underplayed.
August Burns Red Constellations
Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings
Horizons It's All Worth Reaching For
Kayo Dot Gamma Knife
Protest the Hero Volition
The Ghost Inside Returners
Boring, generic, underwhelming, moot.
Move along folks.
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures

2.0 poor
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event
The Mars Volta Octahedron
I'm a fan of all of TMV's previous records. I've managed to see what they're going for on every album and I have given Octahedron the same mindset as I would with any new record. However I simply cannot fathom why I should consider this gold like most of the people here. Some areas of this album just drag so hard its almost painful.
Here's TMV trying to be brooding and mysterious (they've tried before, and with more success I would reason) and just being flat. I don't know, maybe I'm not seeing the sheer amazingness beneath it all that people seem to have discovered.
I by no means have any qualms with slow, ballad-esque albums or songs, but this just feels weak.

1.5 very poor
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Hot N' Heavy

1.0 awful
Justin Bieber My World 2.0
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