Album Rating: 1.0

Lmao

Yeaaa, that wasn’t camaraderie giga-chief

'album is about as hostile as they come to bored manchildren looking for places to stick their dick'

thats not a very nice thing to say

Album Rating: 3.5

but it's a funny thing to say so I'll allow it

'feelings in the Aristotelian sense, brushing their deepest impulses against the shallowness of our sensory reality. '

bro what

i think you have confused aristotle and plato

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way to miss out the key word in that sentence

Aristotle's view of art as an imitation of relatable emotions/scenarios that prompt a cleansing effect on the audience via their cathartic responses (as opposed Plato's view of art as a pale imitation of an imitation that wasn't much good for anything)

Album Rating: 3.0

would Aristotle beat Plato at go kart tho

'way to miss out the key word in that sentence'

needlessly rude and patronising as always

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yes i will accept your apology for taking that quote out of context

'Music is so powerful because it imitates feelings in the Aristotelian sense, brushing their deepest impulses against the shallowness of our sensory reality.'

music brushes feelings deepest impulses against the shallowness of our sensory reality?

or music brushes its own deepest impulses against the shallowness of our sensory reality?

on either reading you make 0 sense and its a clunky ass sentence

'brushing their deepest impulses against the shallowness of our sensory reality'

yeah bro i hate it when that happens

you can why i thought you might have been mistaken cos thats a pretty dogshit rendering of aristotles thought regardless

clunky ass dumby

Album Rating: 3.5

omg wtf is this thread now. Nerd cringe overdrive. UMMMMMM aCTuAlLy...

just wait johnnys gonna seethe post an entire ummm actually paragraph soon enough

Album Rating: 3.5

can we just skip that and call someone a cumdumpster or something

sure

youre a vessel for man seed

or, in the aristotelian sense

the deepest vitality brushes against the shallowness of your sensory world

Album Rating: 3.5

lmao

Album Rating: 1.0

No shit Pots you fucking stupid cock gargling moron.

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gonna pull this one apart constructively, since it's clearly touching a nerve

>Music is so powerful because it imitates feelings in the Aristotelian sense, brushing their deepest impulses against the shallowness of our sensory reality.

the thought behind this is that

1) when we hear music*, we hear a performance (or imitation) of an emotional state, regardless of whether or not the performer is experiencing that state themselves

*obviously a generalisation that takes music to mean 'program music', but since that's likely to be taken as read by the target audience whether or not they realise it, i didn't want to make it more abstract than it already is. might have specified darker/negative music, but hopefully the album's subject matter as explored in the rest of the review does the legwork there.

2) exposure to this can allow us access to our own, 'real' feelings in a way we're otherwise incapable of, particularly if the subject matter is dark or extreme in a way we don't encounter in day-to-day life

3) being able to live out these kinds of feelings, feel validated in recognising them in an external stimulus, and then potentially process them is immensely powerful and is a huge part of the appeal for listening to darker music. it also happens to correspond p much perfectly to Aristotle's commentary on the role of catharsis in tragedy, as per his Poetics

4) there's a certain idk... tension? contradiction? irony? in how shallow/effortless it can be to consume music vs. how how deeply it affects us? when you press play on a track, you do experience it first and foremost on a v superficial level through a v mundane action, which i think makes it extra remarkable how much impact it can have if something in that digital copy of a recording of a performance of a whatever-it's-about speaks to you. not at all the focus of the review, but something worth acknowledging at any rate