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luci
October 13th 2019


12844 Comments


"they're so canned and distant and repetitive and tonally unexciting"
descriptions for why i like them! i like the impersonal psychedelic quality they add, textural instead of frontman

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
October 13th 2019


60449 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

^yes yes. Nice counterpoint to the upfront intensity of the instrumentals

Sowing
Moderator
October 13th 2019


43954 Comments


matter of preference I guess
maybe I'm old but the constant, unshifting barrage of percussion also gets on my nerves after a while
still, there's something about the way that they push those guitar riffs to the front at just the perfect time, every time, that I really respect
worth spending more time with I think...

SandwichBubble
October 13th 2019


13796 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

How can you not dig those yelps? Yelps so good they cure polio.

Pikazilla
October 13th 2019


29772 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This rules, yo

SlothcoreSam
October 14th 2019


6216 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Does anyone else think that the opener, Blow To The Head, sounds like a mix of Paint it Black, and Brutus-Django.

This album is so good to exercise to, crank out loud and sweat it out.

AnimalsAsSummit
October 14th 2019


6170 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

mmm that guitar and drum mixing is done so perfectly like an ear massage

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
October 14th 2019


10205 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

^ yas, those snares just pop



God muzak, this

DoofDoof
October 14th 2019


15076 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Just to agree with others here - the vocals make sense the way they are, imagine putting any other style of vocals over this



Also if they were entirely instrumental, as they’re a two piece, you’d miss that ingredient

Frippertronics
Emeritus
October 14th 2019


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

plus if you really wanted "good" vox i guess you have Don Henley in the Park

sixdegrees
October 14th 2019


13127 Comments


I sleep

tectactoe
October 14th 2019


7363 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

This album is great in fifteen or twenty minute chunks. Maybe I should give it a listen after taking a Prozac.

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
October 14th 2019


10205 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

If you had some beefier vox on this I guess it would end up sounding like 'Whores.', which isnt necessarily a bad thing, but yeah, I like them the way they are here, "textural instead of frontman" for sure

Demon of the Fall
October 14th 2019


33830 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I will get to this eventually, Hypermagic Mountain is one cool album (haven't heard the others). I spotted a wild Doof 5 as well, damn.

DoofDoof
October 14th 2019


15076 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Hypermagic is class, my first LB...but I only rate it a 3.5.



So I'm saying this is far and away superior

Pikazilla
October 14th 2019


29772 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Probably gonna have to bump this



The world needs more fun albums like this

AnimalsAsSummit
October 14th 2019


6170 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Like Koenjihyakkei but more organized and more noise/ punk influenced, less vocal Zeuhl

AmericanFlagAsh
October 14th 2019


13311 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Fuk that opening track makes me moist

DoofDoof
October 14th 2019


15076 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

wait to you get to that big banger

AmericanFlagAsh
October 14th 2019


13311 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

That one wasn't a stand out. I do agree with whoever said they wish this was a little shorter.



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