Album Rating: 4.0

I like that they released it under the BI title. Makes me appreciate some of their influences that I wouldn’t’ve recognized in their dm releases

Atta way david. That’s the entire point!

It's one of those hard to rate albums.
I can hear it's good for the genre, but I will probably never play it again unless I find myself in circumstances that desperately call for ambient music.

I'm feeling a 3-3.5 on this one.

Album Rating: 4.0

3.5 it duit

Album Rating: 2.5

just listen to your heart

That's beautiful Demon

Album Rating: 2.0

I listened to a recent interview with this band and it was almost insufferable.



Jfc.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I will repeat this again and again: Album abducts hard. Let the UFOs take you skeptical mofos.

You better be posting from a space ship

[2] ahrd

idk I just see no reason to ever listen to this album again when there are so many other examples of this style done so much better.

That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. There’s a lot of music in a lot of styles that is of varying quality, drawing a line between excellent stuff and good stuff seems arbitrary here and perhaps overlaying some other issue you have with the release/band

i.e. There’s plenty of reasons to listen to stuff in a particular style that isn’t the best of what that style has to offer. And it’s okay to not have a reason to not want to aside from just not enjoying the music enough to re-spin

Album Rating: 4.0

"Album abducts hard"2

"You better be posting from a space ship"


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Album Rating: 2.5

disagreed there normoct (trademarking this abv), if someone feels a style has been performed better elsewhere then it could make the 'inferior' incarnation of that sound largely redundant.

This is especially true of music that does little to separate itself from the pack, (so not necessarily dependent on quality alone - agreed with that part). As this is based in ambient / progressive electronic music, it is naturally quite sparse, relatively minimal etc. you could say there are less elements at play here, less potential for variation perhaps? Now that isn't a criticism of the wider genre itself, just an observation. It can be true of any genre regardless of how many elements exist, but it also might be easier to overcome in some instances.



Idk there are absolutely tons of 'decent' artists I never revisit because I'd rather just listen to x, y or z.

"There’s plenty of reasons to listen to stuff in a particular style that isn’t the best of what that style has to offer"
i mean, this is true and frequently underrepresented in the kind of lazy namedroppy crit you get from jack-of-all-trades genre tourists on, say, rym (not a vibe i associate hyp with at all), but i think it largely hinges on non-supreme works having enough of their own colour or character to smooth over any perceived imperfections? which is not something that i'd personally credit this with, nor something i imagine hyp would be likely to based on previous comments
hmm

Album Rating: 2.5

'but i think it largely hinges on non-supreme works having enough of their own colour or character to smooth over any perceived imperfections?' (2)

essentially this

This not having enough of its own character is a perfectly acceptable crit

This not having enough variation is also a perfectly acceptable crit

Neither of these however are hyp’s crit which was vague to the point of non-meaning, which was my point : )

“I can hear it's good for the genre, but I will probably never play it again unless I find myself in circumstances that desperately call for ambient music.”

I would not say this is particularly good for the genre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqP7kcr-sc