Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
I've come back to this one several times throughout the year so far but for some reason I haven't fallen in love it the way I feel I should. On paper this thing is right up my alley, long songs, great and varied instruments and vocals, all that stuff. Perhaps I don't understand my own musical tastes at the tender age of 32 haha
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Album Rating: 3.5
hey a 4/5 is still great!
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
Yeah but its a soft 4.0, like a 3.7 or something. I was hyped for this release for months and was kind of let down.
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This is aging very nicely, might bump.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I've been revisiting it on a fairly regular basis.
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From the hate this album receives I would assert that many people on sites like this need to recalibrate the way they approach music which may be difficult or challenging, and essentially very different to the usual stuff they like or are used to.
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Album Rating: 3.0
where's that from?
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Terence McKenna
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Album Rating: 3.0
"From the hate this album receives I would assert that many people on sites like this need to recalibrate the way they approach music which may be difficult or challenging, and essentially very different to the usual stuff they like or are used to."
We are no angry disney guy for sure. Thank fuck for that, to be honest.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s",[1][2] "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism",[3] and the "intellectual voice of rave culture".[4]
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Album Rating: 4.5
Bumping this to 4.5, the Woolgatherer > Passenger > Identifier passage is brilliant
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Album Rating: 4.5
solid review for a decent album
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Album Rating: 4.5
I keep coming back to this one, first 4 tracks are perfect (and Exhaler synth version is also really sweet). It's just a pity the other half of the album is nothing more than decent, making this album hang in the area of 4,25 for me. If they managed to keep the quality this would be a total classic.
So yeah, don't think this beats Veil as a whole, but the highlights here are level higher for me
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
I revisited this in its entirety last night and I still feel the same about it for the most part. The soft opening is a nice touch but kind of goes on for awhile and after the first twenty minutes of the album I find their approach pretty stale. Not sure if this sound clicks with me anymore but ten years ago this would've been my all time favorite album.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
I revisited this in its entirety last night and I still feel the same about it for the most part. The soft opening is a nice touch but kind of goes on for awhile and after the first twenty minutes of the album I find their approach pretty stale. Not sure if this sound clicks with me anymore but ten years ago this would've been my all time favorite album.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"I keep coming back to this one, first 4 tracks are perfect (and Exhaler synth version is also really sweet). It's just a pity the other half of the album is nothing more than decent, making this album hang in the area of 4,25 for me. If they managed to keep the quality this would be a total classic.
So yeah, don't think this beats Veil as a whole, but the highlights here are level higher for me"
That's exactly how I feel about this album. First 4 songs are insane, if you just cut it off there and made it an EP it would be at least a 4.5. Distraction I is still fairly good though. I think I might like the Synth Mix of Exhaler better than the original after hearing it a bunch of times. At the risk of sounding corny.. it's so dreamy. And at parts where there's little to no background noise other than subtle backing synths, it really highlights how insanely good that vocal line is.
How we rate things is funny, because even though I guess I'm giving this a 4 for the 2nd half being only decent, I'd rather have an album like this where the first half is bordering on 5/5 territory the whole way through, than an album where every song is a 4/5
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