Average Rating: 3.09 Rating Variance: 0.12 Objectivity Score: 84% (Well Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name3.5 greatAiming For Enrike Music For Working OutIf Trent Reznor made it big in the 80's, this is what it might have sounded like. Driving mathematical beats behind energetic buzzsaw sythnwaves... time to bust out my leg warmers and neon tights. Let's fuckin' do this!!Andy Shauf The Neon SkylineWhimsical and honest soft-folkish-rock. This album is open mic singer-storytelling at its finest. Andy incorporates warm vintage accompaniment inside the 2nd guitar, drums, bass, keyboards and horn section. He employs impressively catchy turnarounds and interludes all while telling inter-connected stories about the night someone got mugged. The dude composed, produced and played all the instruments. Canada's Got Talent.Caspian On CirclesCaspian's 'On Circles' spins a mosaic of ambient sound textures opting for more song freedom than structure. Emotions are expressed in sweeping arrays of cascading guitar effects that at times produce a driving wall of sound as found in 'Collapser' to the whispering acoustic airiness and beautiful voicing of 'Circles on Circles'. Caspian injects an alluring depth that grows on you listen after listen. Although this album is a little more straight forward than their previous efforts, you can tell that hard work and dedication to the craft pays off for them here with this release.Thy Catafalque NaivThe mastermind behind Thy Catafalque is Tam�s K�tai and he has once again spun a mosaic clash of ambient sounds spanning from classical, rock, jazz, pop, throw in some black metal and Celtic and you're here. This is an emotional roller coaster which provides the listener with a vast soundscape with which to ride. Enjoyed. 3.0 goodBohren und der Club of Gore Patchouli BlueThis album requires the patience of a pacifist Jedi Buddha. This album is somber, dark, brooding, eccentric, and not for the faint of heart. If you've recently lost someone, have fallen on hard times or have considered pounding hard alcohol in a haze of regret, this album may push you over the edge. It portrays that feeling of despair and loneliness like no other music on earth could possibly do. Was this the plan all along? I don't know, but as a relatively productive and happy human being, I am now transfixed into thinking about all the things depressing in my life after listening to this... for that, I will call it a masterpiece in mood manipulation. The perfect art of dredging the sadness that life can sometimes render. I may never listen to this again, but it will forever burn in my memory as the quintessential soundtrack to the darkness and loneliness life can give you. High quality impressions!Destroyer Have We MetGarganjua Toward the SunThis album has an epicically mammoth beginning in ‘The New Sun’, but is weakened with the transitioning into ‘Mire’ and ‘Transcendence’, which shrinks and slows the monolithic progressive voyage with which it starts. Garganjua are finishers though, and prove their doom metal dominance with ‘Controlling Waves’ and the appropriately named ‘To Ascend (awakening)’, which takes you on a 9:00 minute weightless journey to the sun and back in search of the meaning of life. Overall the album displays a barrage of brutal crushing guitar tones that could carve stone and highlights a decent set of vocal runs, which compliment the album’s dynamic changes from heavy sludge to the Pink Floydish interludes.Lotus Thief OresteiaOresteia is a beautifully crafted blend of melodic ambient doom rock and black metal. It lives free of conventions and exudes a sound unto itself. The album is chalk full of powerful atmospheric spaceyness, which lends itself to a psychedelia feel, but is grounded in its' storytelling fascinations of 5th century violence, heroism and betrayal. The vocals are mesmerizingly spiritual and the surrounding soundscape is a complimentary orchestration of synth and guitars. This is a quality post-rock genre-blending metal album. Album Highlights: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, The FuriesWaldgefluster Stimmen im Wind2.5 averageFrigoris ...in StilleKonvent Puritan Masochism
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