Album Rating: 2.5

and lift

yes to all 3

The indivisible goose egg
An irreplaceable loose peg

Album is pretty good, but I can see why people would dislike it. This sounds hardly like Cynic.

Album Rating: 3.0

it sounds exactly like cynic if you take into consideration the last ep and traced in air

Album Rating: 3.0

this is like cynics Yellow / Green by Baroness

Album Rating: 3.0

This would have been my disappointment of the year last year if it wasn't for the new Yes album.

Album Rating: 2.0

Except the Yellow/Green albums didn't feature a band forgetting how to write songs.

Album Rating: 2.5

i wouldn't mind if they did prog rock if it was within the level of music found on focus and traced in air, but this is just a bit too watered down. not very emotional either, which was what ultimately sold me on their older albums.



a good example of soft cynic is the portal tapes. beautiful songs on dat

Album Rating: 1.5

'Except the Yellow/Green albums didn't feature a band forgetting how to write songs.'



or how to produce them. some bands sound great raw, but cynic not so much. for a band that's always evolved their sound from album to album, every time they try to peel back their songwriting to just the bare bones, it feels like a devolution.

Album Rating: 2.0

it was a devolution, absolutely. The songs transition from section to section horribly and the whole

thing is a jumbled mess. I'm pretty sure I was sober the first time I listened to this and laughed at

just how poorly the songs were structured--which is something I assumed I'd be more inclined to do

whilst less mentally coherent.

Album Rating: 4.0

Don't get the hate for this at all, pretty jamming imo

Album Rating: 2.0

Judas Priest?

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, I've dug this from the initial release.

I see where the negative reactions come from, but the flaws don't bother me for the most part. The mid-section of the album is weak compared to the album's opening and closing.

yes! oh how the mighty have fallen. fuck Cynic. never got the hype.

Album Rating: 3.0

Other than influencing tons of bands and practically paving the way to a new sub-genre of death? hell yeah, fuck these guys for being nice people overall and artists

Album Rating: 3.0

Suffers from being a Cynic disc. Expectations were high and we can all agree they failed to deliver

Album Rating: 4.0

dis is very good stuff

Yeah, criminally underrated due to hard-headed metalfucks. =)

So fucking disappointing. I'm not sure how this record even happened. The reviewer hit the nail on the head -- it sounds like they just sloppily jammed for a bit, on acid of course, then polished it a bit in post and released the record. It's so messy and boring and lazy. What happened to these guys?

I never thought it would happen, but this is so silly and bad that I can't even listen to their old stuff anymore. Just like the Pitchfork review mentions, it just opens wounds.