As of this past Tuesday, a glitch prevented me from posting new reviews, and now I'm on Letterboxd.

Album Rating: 2.5

Now, look, I understand that my sentences are very, very lengthy, but I don't find them to be tediously drawn out, and I never will. I work hard at putting dynamicity into them in order to have them flow and engage, because I personally find all of the stops and starts in a supposedly very well-written paragraph to be rather jarring.



Dude, this is what's going to kill you as even becoming a recognized reviewer.

Yeah, this is really difficult to read. You can obviously write, but I would suggest breaking up your sentences more. You also misuse commas a lot.

Try using less words to say the same thing.

Album Rating: 3.0

Second song is garbage

Album Rating: 4.0

damn another Kayo Dot already? Haven't even heard Hubardo enough.

good thread

Album Rating: 3.0

People, how many times do I have to say that I didn't read the comments until yesterday? I'm not ignoring your criticisms or suggestions; I just haven't written since I heard about y'all. Looking back, my music reviews can be extremes in my flaws as a writer, but that's because I try a little too hard to distinguish them from my more punctual, yet more calculated film reviews. I don't see where the review it utterly and grossly unreadable, or whatever nonsense you are spewing off about (I'm a very analytical reader who takes a little time observing each word, and I don't have much trouble in digesting stuff that I've written so long ago that I don't remember what I said), but I'm displeasing someone for every person I please, and I will now start working more on expanding the demographic focus of my reviews. In the mean time, I'm questioning if I should be on a site that makes my reviews this public. I just outlined a review for Trvth's "Episode 1: Exude", and while it still runs the usual amount of paragraphs and continues to be a song-by-song analysis at the meat of the article, the sentences are more spaced out, with a tighter attention to detail. Nevertheless, I will not post the review on this site, but on a more isolated site where people are not as panicky about my improvable writing style which will, in fact, be improved.

Also, in regards to what Deviant. said about Rotten Tomatoes probably stopping my reviews on purpose, that wasn't funny. I was a well-received critic on that site, and I'm sure it was the incompetence that halted almost five years of progression.

maybe they were just being really nice lol

nobody is gonna read that comment sorry

Album Rating: 3.0

Troll

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

The formatting of this review is making my brains hurt more than any avantgarde bands out there

tbh I don't get what the point of doing a Trvth review on another site would be, since pretty much no one
outside of this site knows about Cap'n's project.

Or is that the point?

Album Rating: 3.0

I started the reviews on a community website that's built around film and other entertainment. I use the album reviews as a way of recommending music to others, although they're not "forcibly" exposed to them. They're on a frequently visited "Music" group page, and I haven't gotten much feedback, but I haven't gotten any complaints. Someone I believe to be a pro music critic praised my style and actually inspired me to join this site.

you were probably punk'd :/

Album Rating: 3.0

I don't know how to reason with you people, nor do I know why I continue to try. I have never gotten any extensive flack for my style, in almost five years, and now that I have been receiving some, I haven't been deaf to them. I haven't had the opportunity to change my style yet, and I'm getting attack after attack from people who were initially trying to help, but are just turning into internet "trolls", or whatever it the kids are calling it. I've received statements that I have been an exception to rules that admins cannot interfere with the flow of people's reviews, and that praise to me has been a lie. I've received the occasional death recommendation, and been told that I'm an unmovable narcissist by hypocrites who refuse to pay attention to my plea that I will change a style that has never before been all that criticized, as well it probably should be. I have problems, and I'll be the first one to run my mistakes into the ground, but this is simply ridiculous. Many critics are reasonable, and many others are nothing more than nuisances with no moderate consideration for how I might feel about how having my life's passion bashed, as if I'm some sort of criminal to the writing industry, and a plague to be purged. It's this kind of childish calculation on how to be as ignorant as you can be, and thinly veil it with false pretense and opinionating, that I hate about most internet communities, and I'm going to leave, not because of the bullying, but because I don't want to be associated with this community. I have always been appreciated elsewhere, and I will continue to be.

the thing is, people pop in here, read the review, then jump on the "lol review sux" bandwagon without having
been part of the rest of the thread to know that you've already addressed those criticisms... and then you
continue to comment about how they should stop criticizing you. The people repeating the negative criticism
probably haven't read your response(s) and probably won't, so there's no need to repeat yourself about it.

People are going to keep bumping this thread with the same complains but you shouldn't feel obligated to
continue to address them each time. Just focus on improving your style and ignore the dead horse-beating.

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah, sorry. I'm really not used to very internet-style forums and criticisms, and what have you. I've tried to tap dance around those because they don't go with how I approach interactions and writing, and if I leave the website, then it's because of a combination of that, and my displeasing so many people. Plenty of people enjoy my style, once they've stumbled upon it, but by bringing my writing front and center, I'm a burden to those who aren't on board with my direction. It doesn't help that my style is, in fact, flawed, at least when it comes to certain recent album reviews (My excessive run-ons, abuse of commas, working with a particular review pattern, etc. is not usually this bad, and I've been worse in the past). I'm glad that this negative feedback has shown that I will have to be more liberal with my demographic focus, if I am to be a successful professional critic, but that's too great of a transformation to make so suddenly, and the last thing I want to be is an overt irritation and, by extension, a hypocrite who is critical of people's aggravating me. I'm more annoyed than offended by these internet forum sensibilities.

Album Rating: 4.5

Kayo Dot are good band guyz.

Album Rating: 3.0

Oh, baby, they sure are. The album's good, too, it's just that both the band and their albums can get a little excessive for me, in terms of meandering ("___ On Limpid Form" was about five-and-a-half minutes of awesome, followed by eleven-and-a-half minutes of, "What's going on?").

I'm glad that this negative feedback has shown that I will have to be more liberal with my demographic focus, if I am to be a successful professional critic, but that's too great of a transformation to make so suddenly, and the last thing I want to be is an overt irritation and, by extension, a hypocrite who is critical of people's aggravating me.