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| 3.0 good | Grungil | November 29th 20 |
Not as good as The Gift, but hey, its still typical John Zorn.
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| 2.0 poor | EasterInTheBatcave | December 20th 15 |
A cobbled together and mostly uninteresting Zorn record. Mike Patton shows up for vocals on the quick hardcore blast "Bulls-Eye," and "The Possessed" is an extremely atonal saxophone showcase. Otherwise, this is not worth checking out.
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| 0.0 | Lambda | November 16th 14 |
The second in Zorn's Music Romance series. The first was Music for Children which, funnily enough, represented childhood. This one (according to Allmusic, at least) is about that space in between childhood and maturity where everything is uneasy and you are caught between two worlds (the record title is thus illuminated: taboo, in that inhibitions are ingrained in this period of development, and exile, as in the feeling often associated with it; also, perhaps that taboo creates exile? I'm getting carried away here...) The music is, suitably, darker (for the most part) and more hypnotic than on Music for Children, but it still cycles through genre after genre effortlessly. The problem here is that the songs simply aren't very interesting. Almost nothing on this record grabs me, and, unlike Music for Children, it has a sort of cobbled together feel. Mike Patton shows up for vocals on the quick hardcore blast "Bulls-Eye," and "The Possessed" is an extremely atonal saxophone showcase for Zorn. Otherwise, not worth the time. 2.3
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| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | May 29th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pheenix | January 7th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | January 5th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | bgf97 | November 13th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | smeaf | May 13th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | IAJP | August 19th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | mrfixit | March 5th 08 |
| 3.5 great | tuff | October 30th 07 |
| 4.0 excellent | MeowMeow | September 19th 07 |
| 4.5 superb | jk2two | September 11th 07 |
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