Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
You're right about empty space - instrumental sections on Aura are a bit dull tbpqh :^) comfy ambiance in tracks like The Second Operation and anything on In the L L Library Loft are far more kino
For some reason GK's closer reminds me of Dark Matter from Bjork's Biophilia - or was it Cosmogony?
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Album Rating: 4.0
probably Dark Matter lmao Cosmogony is like Bjork's new age mom anthem (love that song)
and no you are wrong the Aura instrumentals are peak Mia and also very excellent. always thought Second Op was basically the GK t/t but longer and not quite as perfect but hmm
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Album Rating: 4.5
Is anyone a little mind blown that Toby is drumming on this album? I knew he probably wrote the drum parts for all the previous albums but he would always have a dedicated drummer to play them. I didn't even know he played, and here he is busting out blast beats and shit on Epipsychidion. The dude has no boundaries when he comes to playing and writing music, seriously such an inspiration.
(I couldn't find a source of him actually saying it and he didn't answer my question directly on facebook, but he did mention in an interview "This album was made like those old motW tapes, I recorded the guitar, bass, synths, and drums...", so I assume that means he's drumming here)
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah Toby does all music except lead guitar parts that Greg Massi would perform
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Album Rating: 4.0
Gamma Knife is awesome. You know, it just goes back to KD not having enough funds to do what they want to do a lot of the time. They had to record those 3 songs live, then it was fixed up in the studio. Only the bookends got proper studio recordings. The vinyl version likely has the best mastering of it. If the 3 middle songs got proper recordings, people would be singing a lot more praise for it, I bet.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
@mobman47 yeah Toby is an absolute octopus mastermind. He does it all. I'm pretty sure he is Satoshi Nakamoto aswell
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
@Faded - glad to know that I'm not going insane, because I swear you can hear an audience applauding at the end of one of the tracks
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Album Rating: 4.5
see 'em tweeting about bringing back euro doom or whatever but the composition style here is so less direct than most of those straight-up genre bands. like this doesn't turn loose the swans so much as gate them through a bunch of mini-cadences
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Album Rating: 4.5
so much metal is four chord loopy and so much other metal is a single dirge bed that it's almost pastiche to write something proggy that uses the touchstone sounds
like most of the founding trad doom is blues rock with very little extra steps, a lot of the death-doom is massively regular and falls on the one unchangingly
like george clinton was at the desk
none of this is a criticism and I think the album rules i'm just observatin
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Album Rating: 4.0
I mean yeah anyone who heard Toby say goth metal and expected him to come out sounding like Moonspell has some bigger problems to work through
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Album Rating: 2.7 | Sound Off
Everything from 3:22-onwards in Brethren of the Cross is pretty great I’m realizing, and the instrumental parts of Get Out of the Tower. Void in Virgo and The Necklace are tops the way they are.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Bump your rating gosh darn it
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Album Rating: 2.7 | Sound Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1FVsVE54Qw
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Album Rating: 4.5
Everything before 3:22 is pretty great too. It's the most detailed part of the track. The bass is sick.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This album is a huge odd ball.
That kind of chorus on Void in Virgo...oof
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Album Rating: 4.0
heard it on the grapevine that this album art is just an Elden Ring map preview
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Album Rating: 4.0
Oh, speaking of the album art, the inside cover shows a photo of what appears to be Toby's desk (I'm assuming), or a desk in the recording studio. It's covered with occult, and esoteric looking stuff, but towards the back there's a "Brother" printer, which totally ruins the atmosphere of the shot haha. Not sure if intentional, or just a huge oversight.
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Album Rating: 4.5
might be rounding up
but this album blows me away
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Yup, this is my AOTY for sure. I finally 5d it. Every listen gives me goosebumps and makes me appreciate it even more. Such a beautiful album... The mid-era Rush vibes become more apparent to me aswell. Top 3 Kayo Dot for me
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Ps: Brethren of the Cross is my song of the year. It's one of my fav KD tracks ever aswell. The transitions are so well accomplished... Whole album feels like a cryptic, sad, yet epic soundtrack to me now. What a voyage man!
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