I agree with the rating mostly but yea Moon def has keys everywhere and Tango is my favorite here and ur wrong!!

Album Rating: 3.5

Moon keys are mostly unobtrusive in the best trax (Paper Tiger, As Far As You Can Yeet Me) and Tango is bad!!! You are grounded

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

this review feels like it was written specifically to be read by someone with my exact tastes, and we've /mostly/ come to the same conclusions about the album



re: the keys, they were indeed all over Moon, but a combination of tight songwriting and murky production allowed them to integrate seamlessly with the guitars. here, they're just separate enough from everything else going on to feel like an intrusion

Album Rating: 4.0

SRO may be my SOTY for real

Album Rating: 3.5

Shit I thought I'd hadnt listened to moon but I have listened to moon oops. Should remever to check my own ratings duh.

Album Rating: 3.5

First impression was very good but nowhere near their debut. I'm open for this to grow on me in any case.

Album Rating: 4.0

i need to hear the vocalist say "keep on truckin'" at least once

Album Rating: 4.0

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Joliette-Luz Devora



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For the life of me I will never understand why a single music listener gets so fucking offended by the sound of a keyboard anywhere above background noise in the mix. Ever since I was a kid I've always loved the textural contrast that sound provides. Needless to say, I love them here. 'Hyper' is like pure sex for me.

it aint a single music listener its def more than a few people in extreme metal lol and id imagine more in punk

u ever hear bad religion's into the unknown?

No I was never more than an 'occasional song' listener of that band. Homework material?

uhhh not necessarily idk

its a very strange record that a lot of people hate. i dont think it works well personally but i respect it on a few levels still

Album Rating: 4.0

would 3.9 if i could

Would 4.378945 if I still rated albums lololol

Album Rating: 3.5

@NOTINTHEFACE I don't have any issue with the keys' tone or mix in and of themselves - the problems for me start when it feels like the arrangements are oversaturated and focus is being pulled from the most important performances, or when they're trawling through forgettable arp sequences that add next to nothing to the rest of the composition (SRO intro is a prime, though mercifully brief example). When they're good, they're great, but I think the band were way too gung-ho about the scale of their incorporation in approx half these tracks

aint heard this but that sounds like a reasonable understandable pov

@Johnny I get it but you're also highlighting the part that my brain just cant wrap itself around, which is the idea that the keys are vestigial or secondary to the other performances. The intro to SRO is a keys-driven section and so naturally they're at the forefront. Maybe the only difference is that you find it boring and I don't, but idk I feel like a lot of listeners (not necessarily you) automatically switch off when they hear a synth lead in a rock song and start getting impatient for the "real" stuff. That's definitely not what I hear in stuff like this.

Album Rating: 3.5

so on the SRO intro (and also Metallic Olives break), my gripe is that the key melodies are weak and/or out of place in the rest of the track, not that the keys are playing them. My counterexample would be Deerghost, where the keys have a strong hook and absolutely go to town on it - awesome track

Hyper is the old track where I strongly feel that the keyboard part is secondary to and intrusive on other performances, and that would probably be the case on Tango if I vaguely enjoyed what the rest of the band were doing

v much agree that rock purism is not the one for stuff like this in general and that it's really unhelpful to view keyboards as intrusive elements de facto, but I also feel iffy enough about their specific incorporation here that it's not the place I feel most confident waving that flag, if that figures

Hopefully it's clear I'm not accusing you of rock purism or anything, and I guess it's just a matter of different tastes. I absolutely love the key melodies on Hyper and their pairing with the Steve Hackett-aping guitar style, which ends up making the track a high point for me. I agree that Gospel are at their best doing homogenized instrumental jams but I feel strongly that them allowing the keys to arpeggiate for a few seconds in the intro to a song shouldn't ruin anyone's enjoyment. Again, different strokes I guess.

Album Rating: 4.0

At first I saw that summary and I was like wtf is this bs amateurish summary, but then I read the second half of it and I was like AYE this is actually a good summary. GJ