Album Rating: 4.0

Ghost terms and empty concepts? Oh dear...I sure hope you're not a teacher or I'd have to rescue the poor children.



I couldn't help but laugh while reading. A very decent effort yet so akin to a 15 year old skinny/fat girl, desperately in love with the quarterback, who has read a million books all alone at the school-yard, yet hasn't understood a single sentence. There's no need to use "big" words in order to sound convincing. If anything, you'll just sound like the aforementioned girl's best friend who is secretly in love with her and is trying to find "the only words worthy of her" to convey his emotions.



Of course this is just my opinion but I tend to find repetition in the type of people I just described (blogs and websites of wannabe 15 year old poets just to mention a few million), repetition in their older selves (Meshuggah, Tool and other bands who piss on the canvas and stick a dictionary on it, only to build a temple next to it for the idiot followers), and...I could go on and on...



My advice would be to stop using words totally out of context, you're not anything like Wordsworth nor is your review going to sound any more intelligent. Drop the dictionary and read some good old Oscar Wilde.



Of course I couldn't disagree more when it comes to ITTCT, but I like it that way. There's a clear connection between your character, how you feel about this album and how you write about it. I for one am glad you dislike it.

If these trees could talk... if you know what I mean. ;)

Lol, some kid told me that at school. Cracked me up.

Yeah, this band, I tried to enjoy them when I was in my huge post-rock bend a year or two ago. They're just like all the other EITS, post-rock formula, clones, though. I mean, they're talented, but not unique.

Album Rating: 3.0

hey, that cryogenix Guy is really funny



I didn't know I would piss off someone that much, but your whole post is gold ,thanks man!

Oh I liked his Tool/Meshuggah reference.

Album Rating: 3.0

he's got problems,he's excused



also, fuck all this neggers with silly or no justification

Album Rating: 4.5

This album is fucking awesome, if you enjoy post rock I can't fathom how you would rate this so poorly.

Album Rating: 3.0

one option is to read the review

Album Rating: 5.0

You didn't piss me off. But considering how full of yourself you sound in the review I'm not surprised you believe flowers bloom underneath your feet. I'm just a git, generally, sorry if it comes of as sounding impressed.

Album Rating: 3.0

"But considering how full of yourself you sound in the review"



fucking psychologists, they're too many of 'em

Hey.. wanna hear something funny? I used to think drinking coffee was wrong. Wanna know why? Because apparently, a tribe of ancient Jews lived in America, created huge civilizations, and were visited by Christ. But then, they disappeared, leaving no archaeological trace of themselves, EXCEPT for golden plates, who were dug up by a farmer who wrote down amongst other things, that hot drinks are not for the body or belly, so I can't have a CUP of COFFEE! HAH.

Album Rating: 3.0

^^^^wtf?

/mormonism

Album Rating: 3.5

Hmm a well written review, but I think you are confusing the reason why you find it generic / a

cookie cutter post-rock album. Yes Post-Rock has come to full saturation, and with that you

will definitely have issues with generic sounding albums - but I don't think that's what is wrong

with most of these so called generic bands. The issue is to do with the saturation of post rock

itself. To properly enjoy this kind of music you are required to sit down and listen to it, and then

listen to it again, focus on the music and then listen to it again (do a whole lot more of this etc

etc) - with so many bands to choose

from, and it often being a case of 'gotta catch them all', I think that you are not dedicating the

proper amount of time and not listening to it in the right context, so the intricacies and emotion

that make

this album (and any other) really enjoyable is lost on you.



The reason we can go back and say EITS and GY!BE are the cornerstones of the genre is because at the

time there wasn't a whole lot of post rock, it was a youngish genre. So naturally less bands to

listen to amounts to more time spent listening to each band and each album - you savour what you

have in small quantities.



I know this is probably really long winded but I'll finish by saying that I for one am guilty of

being over saturated to the point where bands become forgettable, there has been more times than I

can count where I have written off a band as boring and unoriginal only to find them in my music

collection a few months later, sit down; listen thoroughly and discover what I had been missing out

on.



Album is @ 3 for me at the moment (first play through) - I can foresee it going up to 4 within a few

good listening sessions though

cookie cutter excuses for negging

albums awright, but nothing special. 5:ing this is pretty retarded

Album Rating: 3.0

@rundllexe:



To properly enjoy this kind of music you are required to sit down and listen to it, and then listen to it again, focus on the music and then listen to it again



I think that you are not dedicating the

proper amount of time and not listening to it in the right context, so the intricacies and emotion that make this album (and any other) really enjoyable is lost on you.



I get your point but I truly believe this is not the case.

I wholeheartedly understand that post-rock albums are usually experiences to be felt within a proper context, but this is not a legitimate criterion for judging them. Being stoned,drunk, silent, or at a heavily emotional situation will surely affect your viewpoint and it will usually make you enjoy what you're listening.



However, I believe that the good post rock albums are the ones which create such an atmosphere by themselves. It's a fact that their grandeur may take time to unfold, and it may need some pushing for doing so, but the truly good ones barely get boring and their fundamental elements are usually traced after a dozen of listens. But time and context alone aren't proper for judging them- dynamics, melodies and instrumentation are



The reason we can go back and say EITS and GY!BE are the cornerstones of the genre is because at the time there wasn't a whole lot of post rock, it was a youngish genre



I also get what you're saying but I don't believe that this is the mainly why they are cornerstones. It is because they where the best ones to utilize the characteristics of the genre and did it pretty successfully. Lift your skinny... and F#a# have been proven great after dozens of listens at most situations.

Album Rating: 4.0

"also, fuck all this neggers with silly or no justification"



And another: "Red Forest will difficultly be anything more than a ..."



Maybe you should consider proof reading if you don't want people to give an honest account of your reviews. Especially when you're dismissing them from on high as nothing more than "underground elitists and late-teens metalheads."



Insulting your target audience based on sub-genre orientation and then complaining about the inevitable negative reaction? Quite some intellect you've got there.



Us underground elitists can be a harsh marking bunch at times. It's a failing I know.



Neg.

This album is really great. Haters gonna hate.

Album Rating: 2.0

probs really good

Album Rating: 3.0

Insulting your target audience based on sub-genre orientation and then complaining about the inevitable negative reaction? Quite some intellect you've got there.



you're right, next time I'll treat my target audience deliberately better