And that's a bad thing? You know you loved every moment, babe.
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Nah.
EDIT: @ unaffected
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Album Rating: 4.5
Gold Teeth On A Bum is great
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Album Rating: 3.5
Holy shit this has awesome packaging
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Album Rating: 4.5
Must buy this soon as i can get my ass out of work and down to HMV
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Album Rating: 4.5
I've been able to listen to this front to back several times in a row. I've been listening since Calculating Infinity and have endured all the bellyaching regarding pop integration and hot/cold soft/loud mechanics that started to become all the rage with bands like Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky and manifested itself in Miss Machine which I believe to be superior to Ire Works which has several strong tracks, I've even been known to listen to "Black Bubblegum" on repeat, but IW came across as a mixtape of aggressive, pop and downtempo that wasn't exactly a cohesive whole or a front to back listen no matter how many times I tried to do that or actually achieved it.
Enter Option Paralysis. I've been spinning it for over a week now and from the first listen I had no hesitation letting the album go its own way, no tracking smithing/skipping around and was content with this whole album approach for several listens. Naturally, I start to favor certain songs and want to hear them before others and after I understood what the album was trying to accomplish, and in my opinion quite successfully did, I didn't mind being the tracksmith I am.
Let me just say that this album is what Ire Works was reaching for and what was hinted at in Miss Machine except instead of being a seeming menagerie of random aggro/soft pop/dadaist tracks, what we have here is a relatively seamless listening experience from start to finish, assuming some accompanying piano sections aren't br00tal enough for your purely black flowing blood, but not to worry just when when you start to think, what the fuck, more piano, they shift gears back to what you almost instinctively need more of. Finally DEP are IN TOUCH with their dynamism. They know how to weave these songs together. The sum is greater than the whole, whereas before we had distinct songs that were well formed but somewhat incongruent as a whole, but that's the beauty of DEP, they flirt with different genres, time signatures and emotions (go ahead flame me for being emo).
All I have to say is I can't be happier with this album and it's lived up to the great expectations I've had for it as my most anticipated album of 2010. I've actually listened to it so much, and it's still not officially out for another day in the US, that I have been taken a day or so break between listens, but god damn there are some tracks that grind and mosh so fucking hard, it's irresistible and then there are of course the more timid and sentimental moments on the album which I wouldn't trade for the most aggressive because it's the balance of the two that really strikes the rift I find in myself between total fucking chaos and gentle obsession with beauty. Rock on.
dethSpell
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Album Rating: 4.0
7-10 are key on this release
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Album Rating: 4.0
^^^ why dont you write your own review instead of ranting on page 42 of this one?
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so should i check this out?
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do you think i will like this? that's why i asked if i should check it out
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Ummmm... Check it out dude. If you like it, it will definitely expand your horizons. But honestly based on your ratings, this isn't your thing. But like I said, try it on for size anyway, maybe you'll love it idk.
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alright, i will check this out
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Album Rating: 4.0
Do it, I wasn't a fan at all before this album but now I'm hooked.
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Album Rating: 4.5
the first person to give this below a 3 be warned:
I will find you
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let the troll 1's begin.
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Album Rating: 4.0
if these are "vastly improved" vocals, i couldn't even imagine how bad Puciato's work on their other albums was...he's terrible...both the patton posturing and jon bon jovi (have a nice day era) cleans...musically this is a pretty fantastic album, but i can't get past the vox...or the lyrics for that matter, yeesh...
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Album Rating: 4.5
clean vocals are nothing special, and yeah some of the lyrics are pretty lame.
still awesome though.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I don't see what's so bad about them. Sometimes they're out of tune and a bit nasally, but he's very versitile and has a ton of energy.
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Album Rating: 4.0
it's VERY nasally, unoriginal, and his "versatility and energy" only serve to hide the fact that he's not particularly good at any of his approaches, he just switches them up a lot...
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I'm loving all the vocals on this. To each his own I guess.
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