Black Midi Cavalcade
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Cygnatti
May 29th 2021


36394 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

Oh is that a thing? Lmao

JohnnyoftheWell
May 29th 2021


64287 Comments


it can be a thing

DavidYowi
May 29th 2021


3512 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Great review but I still feel like a lot of the negative reception this is getting on sput is a knee jerk reaction to how much hype the Windmill scene gets from RYM and AOTY

tectactoe
May 29th 2021


9228 Comments


Really good album, nearly great, not quite amazing though. I prefer Schlagenheim by a fair bit. This was actually much tamer than I expected, which might be partially responsible for my favorable but hardly ecstatic reaction. Great band, excited to see where they go next in any case.

ArsMoriendi
May 29th 2021


42342 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

What's the windmill scene and who cares about RYM



I don't like this cuz it sucks

hesperus
May 29th 2021


1466 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

i haven't heard all of Cavalcade yet, but this review gets at what frustrated me about Schlagenheim. BM have demonstrated that they can write fantastic songs with emotional impact (the explosive climax of "Near DT, MI" comes to mind - Picton needs to take lead vocals more often) but too often they let their mathy wankery get in the way, and their songs end up as all head and no heart. Good review

JesperL
Emeritus
May 29th 2021


5841 Comments


wow i don't want to listen to this but i feel like i should to keep up to date with the hip cool trendy youth but i don't want to

SAPoodle
May 29th 2021


877 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Only on Sputnik could the new Devil Wears Prada EP have a better rating than this

zakalwe
May 29th 2021


41984 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Fucking windmill scene.



Cygnatti
May 29th 2021


36394 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

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zakalwe
May 29th 2021


41984 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

‘Wearing espadrilles, supping Independent ales along Coldharbour Lane while tucking into a Vietnamese.

‘The windmill scene is like amazing, best movement since like punk me thinks.’

‘Yeah Tarquin it like really like projects my artisan bohemian lifestyle’

Urgh there’s a man over there who is like so vulgar calling us cunts and throwing things at us. My anxiety has gone through the roof!!!’



👋

Ryus
May 29th 2021


37885 Comments


nice

anat
May 29th 2021


5852 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

hahaha methinks

ArsMoriendi
May 29th 2021


42342 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

I almost understood zak's satire for once



cool

Cygnatti
May 29th 2021


36394 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

Lmao zak

Kompys2000
May 29th 2021


9483 Comments


Top notch review John

Also glad I'm not the only one who saw the album title and immediately thought of vsnares lol

Sowing
Moderator
May 29th 2021


45549 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This is such a weird place sometimes

GhandhiLion
May 29th 2021


17793 Comments


most of the time

butt.
May 29th 2021


11429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

“Do you enjoy 7th arpeggios? Better fucking hope so. They’re trotted out over the shop here, dreary theory exercises so perfectly well-behaved that all the track’s clamorous moments seem suspiciously arbitrary.”



Great writing as usual, but this sentence basically sums up the review. It shows up many times here but phrased in different ways. And without being proficient in music theory - like most listeners - I basically interpret this sentence to mean “these guys are so talented and the tracks are so well-arranged that I don’t like it”.



I’m trying to understand the actual complaint here

butt.
May 29th 2021


11429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It’s like some of y’all are trying way too hard to come up reasons to dislike this album, and if the chief complaints are “they switch from fast to slow” and “7th arpeggios”, then....yeah....must be a pretty decent record tbh



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