Man prog bands like Opeth do almost nothing for me with a few rare exceptions like porcupine tree/SW
I can find their songwriting and musicianship impressive but once that novelty wears off it tends to feel hollow in the same sense that a Nolan film can be technically impressive and entertaining enough but not really stir up much emotion.
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Album Rating: 2.5
I prefer Mer prog, agreed
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I first listened to Blackwater Park in 2008 and it blew me away. I eagerly awaited the release of Watershed, and I loved it. This new one is probably going to be either a 3 or a 3.5 for me, and I think the reason is mainly that I'm just older and less impressionable.
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Album Rating: 2.5
I love Opeth, it's one of my favorite bands ever, has been for 15 years now. This album, however, does nothing for me.
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Album Rating: 4.5
The tone of this one is so Opeth. Also production is great.
To me, this one is very much contains the good stuff they've been working on during the post-Watershed era. Which means it's very addictive and twisty-turny in a loooovely way.
And energetic, alive!
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Album Rating: 4.5
The musicianship on this is fantastic.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Absolutely! And just like on ICV they sound like they're enjoying themselves as well.
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Album Rating: 4.0
For some reason a lot of '24 albums are joyful. Maybe it's that ol' post-pandemic resilience.
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Album Rating: 2.5
oh, maybe that's why I like so little that's on offer? Joy can be a real drag sometimes
I'm still having mixed feelings about this. I should perhaps circle back around after another dose of ICV (which I do remember liking but haven't heard in aaaaaaaaages)
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Album Rating: 2.0
have you heard the expanded edition if ICV
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Album Rating: 2.5
Jag har hört den svenska versionen, men inga andra alternativ
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Album Rating: 2.0
ok I thought so
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Album Rating: 4.5
That first half of §5 is so very Heritage!!!
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Album Rating: 4.0
> I can find their songwriting and musicianship impressive but once that novelty wears off it tends to feel hollow in the same sense that a Nolan film can be technically impressive and entertaining enough but not really stir up much emotion.
I get that for a lot of other tech/prog bands, but Opeth?
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Good review Rob. Quick editorial comment; the silcrow symbol (§) stands for section not paragraph. Paragraph would be ¶.
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Album Rating: 4.0
The band themselves have been making that mistake, referring to the song titles as paragraphs but using the silcrow.
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That’s pretty funny
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Album Rating: 4.5
Hehe, it is! Should be 'sections' then.
Might be a lost-in-translation thing too, since Wikipedia says:
"In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example, German: Paragrafzeichen)."
Seems to be the case in Swedish as well: Paragraftecken. And in Dutch: Paragraafsymbool. And in French: Paragraphe (symbole). Portuguese: Parágrafo (símbolo). Spanish: Párrafo (signo ortográfico).
Conclusion of this small study of European languages: English is weird.
Also Wikipedia: "The section sign is often used when referring to a specific section of a legal code. (...) The section sign is frequently used along with the pilcrow (or paragraph sign), ¶, to reference a specific paragraph within a section of a document. While § is usually read in spoken English as the word "section", many other languages use the word "paragraph" exclusively to refer to a section of a document (especially of legal text), and use other words to describe a paragraph in the English sense. Consequently, in those cases "§" may be read as "paragraph", and may occasionally also be described as a "paragraph sign", but this is a description of its usage, not a formal name."
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Paragraafolium
English is weird [2]
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Album Rating: 4.5
Paragraafolium new nickname DONE.
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