Album Rating: 4.5
Seriously though, this album has only gotten better and better for me with repeat listens. I'm now convinced this is absolutely Rody's most compelling vocal performance.
The part toward the end of The Duelling Cavalier that just keeps unexpectedly shifting chords "follow my lead, fall into me, fall into decay" gives me chills every goddamn time.
I'm also a huge sucker for the ending of Gift Horse too. That triumphant explosion of the last 30 seconds is perfection
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Album Rating: 2.5
Honestly found this underwhelming, like all of their newest releases. Literally play something from this then something from Kezia/Fortress, the quality gap is ridiculous. I find this very uninspired, but not bad, so just meh.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This album is so good I might never listen to Kezia or Fortress again...
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Album Rating: 4.5
yea it's been a very long time since i've listened to kezia, but this may be their best album. need to revisit their discography.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Honestly found this underwhelming, like all of their newest releases. Literally play something from this then something from Kezia/Fortress, the quality gap is ridiculous. I find this very uninspired, but not bad, so just meh.
I obviously disagree with the first part of your statement, but yeah, Kezia and Fortress are much better than the rest of the material this band has ever put out.
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Album Rating: 4.5
excellent lyrics too
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Album Rating: 4.5
tbh this feels like a different band from Kezia/Fortress
anyway Gift Horse is my new fav track
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Album Rating: 4.5
I never loved fortress like everyone else. My favorites are this, volition and kezia.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Fortress was groundbreaking when it came out imho. I did not listen to anything else for weeks, it was sikth levels of absolute bonkerly being head of their peers
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Looking back at Fortress, it's child's play compared to Sikth. Still a classic album though.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I don't know is it? I feel like the sweeps on Fortress are on average more complex, Sikth maybe has better drum lines but I wouldn't say Fortress is an easy disc to olay either
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Album Rating: 4.0
I'd take DOADD over any PTH album, but I wouldn't say it's vastly superior.
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Fortress is definitely technical and fast and requires a lot of effort to learn, but when you sit down and study the guitar tabs you'll notice a lot of it the riffs center around the pentatonic scale and most of the leads are derived from shapes used all over in metal lead playing
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Album Rating: 4.5
I don't think PtH's selling point is raw technicality, it's just that they're good songwriters with enough technical flair to keep things interesting, and they have more self-restraint than a lot of 'prog' bands
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They really showed restraint on this album. I like that move a lot
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Album Rating: 4.0
"tbh this feels like a different band from Kezia/Fortress"
Yeah that's probably why I like this so much more than those.
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Album Rating: 4.0
For sure, Kezia's probably always going to have the nostalgia goggles for me, but the songwriting on this one is a step up from anything else they've done did
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Album Rating: 3.5
This felt much more scaled back, at least relative to their previous albums. Undecided on a rating yet, but this might be my favorite of theirs
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Album Rating: 4.0
I can't express how much I like "All Hands". It's fantastic.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Gardenias makes me worry for Rody's throat
like dude didn't you have to relearn how to sing or something, those YES A BLONDEs can't be good for you
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