I agree with most of what Chan said. The review is well written though and definitely worthy of a pos.

Album Rating: 5.0

I listen to this as a whole on occasion but it's a very hit and miss record for me so I thought digesting tracks and saying that they fit in either in Category A) the first three tracks and they're really nice and B.) the shitty other half. While writing it I felt like I was doing a t-b-t so I can see your point. I'll add in something about The Machine but my problem with it is really that it's so simplistic and it doesn't really serve a purpose. So I said that the riffs were primitive and it was "haphazard" in its execution by saying it was an afterthought. At least that's how I perceived it. But maybe I'm imagining that I implied something that I didn't?

pretty much agree with oneiron. also agree with review but to a lesser extent.

Album Rating: 4.0

Seriously, 2.5? No way man, no way.

Okay well I added some sentences to the review in the parts you guys mentioned. Thank you for future reference.

My problem Oneiron, is that on the last few tracks, The Pax Cecilia go way over their heads with pretense and make fools out of themselves. "The Wasteland" is an embarrassment to ambient music as a whole because its few drones aren't used in a way that allows it to be anything more than lifeless background music, which is not what ambient entails (and the b&n snide joke i made in the review too that was fucking awful).
"The Water Song" just kinda plods along and then it jumps into a nice groove and then it falls back to acoustics and vocals and then it just fucks around for another three minutes. And "The Tree" is an overly simplistic piece where violins yawn and guitars just kinda float. Y'know?

just so you know i gave you a pos.

Album Rating: 5.0

I understand the feeling on The Wasteland. I can't really disagree other than one day it clicked with me and I think it provides an appropraiet contrast to The Progress and The Machine. Then The Water Song comes along and eases out of the silence and into The Tree, which belongs because it is literally the culmination of the reast of the album. You can here passages from every other song in this track, which I think brings the album together perfectly before the coda of The Hymn. Meh, to each their own.

thanks and i disagree oneiron, sorry.

Album Rating: 4.5

Your opinions are painful. Everything deliberate about this album you call a mistake. Everything

beautiful you call a bore.



The way you write this review makes it seem like, while listening to this album, you expect to be

hearing another. And because of this you don't hear the music.



But I know that's not the case. I just wish it was.

Album Rating: 4.5

love this album, glad to see a neg review for it though.

There are just so many albums like this that are far better and it needs to have the fat trimmed off it. Seriously there's no excuse for that much filler.

Album Rating: 4.5

While we're stating opinions as facts, I'm just gonna say:



There is no filler on this album.



To be fair I had to listen to this in a very specific setting (LAX at 3am) before I liked The

Wasteland and The Water Song. I thought they were dull before then.

And I'd probably pull a Ponton and be like. No. Don't Hire me.

exactly

Album Rating: 4.5

disagree with ur rating obviously,but always good to read a neg review

Similar Bands: maudlin of the Well, Dredg,


Yes ill vget this

Album Rating: 4.0

Pretty sure most of you noobs weren't even here when these guys were mailing out their album for free. Which is good cause I'd hate to think a physical copy of this would be held in Bitchfork's small, palmy hands.



Anyways, neg.

Album Rating: 4.5

haha,its still available for download on their website

http://www.paxcecilia.com/thePaxCecilia-BlessedAreTheBonds.zip

palmy hands

THIS. REVIEW.

SO. FUCKING. CONTROVERSIAL. OMG.

I WISH I WAS THIS MUCH OF A BADASS BEFORE PUBERTY.