Album Rating: 1.0
Wonder where they'll go from here tbh. Can't imagine they'll get any better, but you never know I guess.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Thought they broke up?
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Album Rating: 1.5
I'm still not sure what it is about Paul's playing that makes it seem so much more intelligent than any of Cynic's contemporaries (especially their modern contemporaries). It just sounds so nuanced.
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Album Rating: 3.5
"I did too til you brought it up"
lol
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I'm pretty sure this band is broken up yeah
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I think it's a combination of things which are pretty unique. He uses a lot of jazz scales and unconventional chord shapes, incorporates tapping very subtly, uses the whammy bar to bend pitch really quickly rather than divebomb or make noise, and tends to avoid show-off solos. Actually lot of the solos are super simple and fairly slow compared to the rest of the song but remain interesting
I also read in an interview that he composes almost all their stuff on acoustic guitar first, which is super interesting. Lots of artists do that, but not not a whole lot of progressive metal bands, haha
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Album Rating: 1.5
The thing is that none of those are necessarily unheard of for a band like Animals as Leaders or Scale The Summit or any of the other vaguely artsy guitar nerd wankery bands that are around.
The subtle use of the whammy bar is huge though, it sounds ridiculously sexy and I've incorporated that as much as my limited skill allows
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Album Rating: 1.0
Oh I thought they were continuing without Sean. Def would be better if they are just broken up.
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I think the difference is the lesser bands use the same techniques to excess. Paul sweeps and taps, but he does those for all of five seconds. Guys like Scale The Summit, who I do enjoy, will take that technique and use it for two minutes
he holds back. Unless he's riffing up a fucking storm
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Album Rating: 4.0
dude you should check this out at least once if you like Paul's playing in general. I can see why people aren't so big on this one but I honestly still think it's a really great record, worth giving a chance at least
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I forgot this was even a thing. Might check again
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gay band and album
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Album Rating: 1.5
I just bumped this down without relistening to it the other day
I'm sure I did the right thing
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Album Rating: 2.0
This album's OK from what I recall. I have no interest in re-listening to it anytime soon, though.
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Yeah I remember this being listenable, nowhere near as offensively bad as some people consider it
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Album Rating: 2.5
^^^Same, it's good, almost great, but it's just not nearly as exciting or engaging as all their prior stuff.
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Album Rating: 3.5
It definitely isn't what I wanted, but I actually ended up liking it a lot. Sue me.
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Album Rating: 1.0
Nah it's pretty offensively bad.
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Album Rating: 2.5
I actually like this more than their debut, lol.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Snaaaap Craackklle and Pop
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