Album Rating: 3.5
They need to do a re-recording with actual drums. Perhaps I've already said it, but I would love to hear how this one sounds with One's production
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Realizing to a certain degree what studio trickery sounds like takes away from the magic quite a bit. I agree, this, Polaris and Sonder might be way hetter with One's production
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Nocturne is so beautiful man really just an all time great song
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
wake.me.up.
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5
"Realizing to a certain degree what studio trickery sounds like takes away from the magic quite a bit. I agree, this, Polaris and Sonder might be way hetter with One's production"
You mean thin, grainy production? Naw, you need to flip that statement. When they announced a reissue of One I had hoped they would have given it the treatment of their last three efforts.
Also, what is with the obsession of One? I just relistened to it again the other day, and it has great ideas on it, but the song writing is not nearly as refined as anything post "Polaris". Even tracks that I used to love like "Lament" and "Nascent" don't hold a candle to anything off of War of Being.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
Y'all Sonder sounds fucking amazing. IDK how anyone could want their other albums to sound like One. I adore all this band's stuff and don't particularly trust my ears but I cannot imagine how someone might prefer the production of One to any of their other albums.
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5
Guy knows what's up.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
The "studio trickery" referred to above is an integral part of the band's sound, and has been since this album. The production on One sounds like crap and doesn't lend itself to the band's strengths in songwriting imo.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
I realize now that I basically just re-wrote GuyMan's comment in my own words my b
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5
No love for me, huh?
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
nope
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Mh, when I think of studio trickery and Tesseract I think of vocal moments. Like, I used to really like Seven Names. But when I realized the big cathartic "WHY" at the climax is several vocal tracks spliced together, the magic just vanished. It sounds fake to me and I don't care for the song anymore.
So yea, I do enjoy how later records sound, even though AS would be better with real drums. I like how One sounds, but agreed, I also don't really like the songwriting there. Let's be honest, Tesseract's songwriting is where they've always been shakey. Whore of Being is the only consistently great album imo
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5
I just like organic production, and really dislike how fake the drums sound on most of their records. Sure, I like how chunky some passages sound on the later records, but I want instruments to sound realistic, and indeed, the lesser the edits or backing tracks the better imo. Forces you to either participate more as a band or get more creative as a songwriter
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Well put, Beardog
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
u guys r listening 2 da wrong band
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5
Nah, I like Meshuggah with the stellar cleans and melodic ambient vibes
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
I don't listen to this band anymore tbh
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
All good points, I suppose. I wondered elsewhere in one of their threads if being a producer, or having good ears, in that sense, might affect your enjoyment of a band. I'd hate that. My favorite album of all time, Mindcrime, sounds amazing to me. But if I think about it too hard, yeah the guitars are a bit shrill and the bass is buried and blah blah blah. I don't want to throw that variable into the mix. Very, very rarely is something so offensive to my ears that I can't listen. Pantera is one of those cases, for example.
|
| |
Album Rating: 3.5
Yeah, it's a double edged sword. It makes me hate records harder, but also makes me enjoy records more if they are amazingly produced.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
Any examples of that? I've got a set of metal albums I start with every time I buy a new pair of headphones or car or whatever, but I don't know if they actually sound good. I just love the way they sound.
Sonder is one of them. Junius' Martyrdom of a Catastrophist, Undertow, Empire, RATM debut, Night Verses At the Gallery, ETID's FPU etc.
|
| |
|
|
