You took that better than I thought you would.

Album Rating: 3.0

Me or jingledeath?

Oh, jingly agrees with me. Even better.

I guess, you!

Album Rating: 4.0

This is better than Traced in Air.

You have swine flu

Album Rating: 5.0

This is art. A masterpiece.

The Last Baron has to be the greatest 13:01 song.

EVER

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

congrats, is this your first album ever?

Pretty bland album. There's a few good parts, but most of it is trying too hard to be technical. Production isn't all that good either.

Album Rating: 4.0

Production isn't all that good either.

Album Rating: 2.0

I love hard rock and metal but this album had not much unique melody and sounded a little all over the place.

Why don't people notice the awesomeness present here?

not enough awesome so

Album Rating: 4.0

enough to jingle my fancy

It jingled jingle. Probably enough awesome.

Album Rating: 4.0

What a shocking review. You don't justify your rating whatsoever and try to cover it up with pseudo-intellectual drivel. Congratulations, you tarnished this album's universal acclaim with a poorly written and contrived mess of pretentious egotistical tripe. I'm led to think you'd written this review before they even released the album.



One of your aforementioned points is "comment on the music", well I'd really try to avoid wielding points such as "poor lyrics" and "convoluted concept" as your only reasoning for giving this album such a poor rating. The music is soundly devised and performed - the flow is barely hindered in any regard and the album progresses and evolves. I've listened to it completely in excess of 30 times - and this is the first Mastodon record to have succeeded in gaining so much listening time from me and it still isn't old. You also made the claim that "Music is available to all rather than people who enjoy specific genres" - well stop contrasting this album with other albums and stop attacking it with criticisms borne on the music you seem to adore. Analyse it as an individual work - from behind the veil of ignorance. Stop contextualising it in regard to the music you enjoy - you just make yourself look like a jargon spewing, baseless cynic.



But that's pretty much what you guys are all about here at Sputnik. Tall Poppy syndrome - get yourselves some attention by blasting an album that doesn't deserve it. That's really quite pathetic in a most literal sense.



Then when someone like me comes along, claim "LOL TROLLED" or some irritatingly pre-composed response about the "objectivity" of reviewing music.



Just get off your god damn high horse and listen to music like you want to, not like its your job. You write reviews non-professionally for a site that is reputed for its attention-seeking contributors. Give your readers something worth reading rather than feigning superiority.

Album Rating: 2.5

It's not really your job either to review reviews and the people of a website. Don't be here if you don't want to. *analyze

Album Rating: 3.5

pretty sure this is the only negative review of this album here man. hardly attention seeking



greer is a pretentious cad, though

What a shocking review. You don't justify your rating whatsoever and try to cover it up with pseudo-intellectual drivel. Congratulations, you tarnished this album's universal acclaim with a poorly written and contrived mess of pretentious egotistical tripe. I'm led to think you'd written this review before they even released the album.

One of your aforementioned points is "comment on the music", well I'd really try to avoid wielding points such as "poor lyrics" and "convoluted concept" as your only reasoning for giving this album such a poor rating. The music is soundly devised and performed - the flow is barely hindered in any regard and the album progresses and evolves. I've listened to it completely in excess of 30 times - and this is the first Mastodon record to have succeeded in gaining so much listening time from me and it still isn't old. You also made the claim that "Music is available to all rather than people who enjoy specific genres" - well stop contrasting this album with other albums and stop attacking it with criticisms borne on the music you seem to adore. Analyse it as an individual work - from behind the veil of ignorance. Stop contextualising it in regard to the music you enjoy - you just make yourself look like a jargon spewing, baseless cynic.

But that's pretty much what you guys are all about here at Sputnik. Tall Poppy syndrome - get yourselves some attention by blasting an album that doesn't deserve it. That's really quite pathetic in a most literal sense.

Then when someone like me comes along, claim "LOL TROLLED" or some irritatingly pre-composed response about the "objectivity" of reviewing music.

Just get off your god damn high horse and listen to music like you want to, not like its your job. You write reviews non-professionally for a site that is reputed for its attention-seeking contributors. Give your readers something worth reading rather than feigning superiority.

Album Rating: 4.0

pretty sure this is the only negative review of this album here man. hardly attention seeking



greer is a pretentious cad, though



Oh no, I'm quite aware of the amount of well thought-out and accurate reviews on this album, its just that this one happens to be the one that comes up first and contributes to meta-rating websites.



It's not really your job either to review reviews and the people of a website. Don't be here if you don't want to. *analyze



I never claimed it was my job. I'm simply here to argue in favour of a position I support - isn't that the objective purpose of this website?

Album Rating: 4.0

well, while i disagree with your opinion, and i agree with cocaine's points on page 2, this album's kinda a thin 4 for me.



3.5-4. i think i listened to this 3-4 times, and never really got into it. or mastodon in general. liked leviathan though.



anyway, decent review i suppose. its a bit condescending at points, but i kinda get the impression thts what u were going for.



protest the hero > you though.