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| 5.0 classic | praise jimmy EMERITUS | March 16th 15 |
breaking into children's hospitals and shouting out DON'T FUCK WITH ME
flip yourself off but say erase it when someone sees you
THIS IS THE WORST VACATION EVER
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| 2.5 average | Bedex | April 14th 21 |
For the majority of the first half, this feels like Prurient if Dominik had lost all of his grit and two or three distortion pedals. It's chaotic, but it's not angry. It's noisy, but it doesn't scream. In fact there is a whole lotta whining in this thing, to a point that gets frankly annoying in multiple places. Now this is not to say there is no merit here. Lots of songs have cool ideas, textures or intros - chiefly 1,5,6 -, but as long as he starts whining or singing-but-pretty-much-talking-really it feels like those ideas are thrown down the drain. The second half is a bit calmer and more ambient, as crystallised in the closing track, and that works better wiht the vocals, which bumps this back to 2.5 tier -, but firstly this means the album has a strong downward energy curve, and secondly there are still plenty of bad bits in this half - 7 and 10 get really irksome for instance. So yeah not one I'll come back to any time soon. 2.5
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| 4.5 superb | AlmostSeriousOpinion | July 16th 12 |
Xiu Xiu have an unique sound, its desperate, passionate and sincere at most times. Sometimes looks like he is trying too hard, sometimes he just seems like giving up on life. But above all those descriptions all that we can say is that this unique sound is original and breathtaking, and as a first example of it, Knife Play is groundbreaking, is the debut of something pleasant, something truly artistic, something to admire. A near classic.
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| 4.0 excellent | jtswope | February 6th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Ben STAFF | January 8th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Respawn | August 6th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Glovoc | April 19th 23 |
| 3.5 great | jehubin | September 21st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | anode | September 12th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Xirae | June 24th 21 |
| 3.5 great | kkarron | February 28th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | MmJj | January 9th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | nahtanoj | November 26th 20 |
| 3.5 great | ckssr1 | August 12th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Sam C. | June 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wyder | May 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | casey | December 15th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Yep321 | November 8th 19 |
| 3.5 great | iglu | September 6th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ryus | May 20th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Sine | April 12th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Evrimen | February 16th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | PaabL | December 7th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | tyler | February 12th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Prole | November 19th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | bentl | July 31st 17 |
| 3.0 good | XiuXiu | September 25th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Grimsby | August 23rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | eboph | April 6th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Sithese | December 31st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | jimbon | July 24th 14 |
| 3.0 good | ethos | May 3rd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Uqnivde | January 19th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | DBlitz | April 2nd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | kount | January 11th 12 |
| 3.0 good | stfrnz | August 17th 11 |
| 3.5 great | cuki92 | July 21st 10 |
| 3.0 good | parf | June 21st 10 |
| 5.0 classic | Kyle | October 3rd 09 |
| 3.0 good | 204409 EMERITUS | December 19th 07 |
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