Album Rating: 3.0
I used to really beat myself in the chest and scream "Narrow minds!" when people were ripping on EMDM and THOL, especially after Born Villain which many of said people considered a return to form (-ish). I thought his 2007 and 2009 outings were very clever leanings toward different styles, something new and not just a retread of his hit.
I have to admit, I just returned to this particular album yesterday and realised that a lot of it is a bore. A cool idea or a riff would kick a song off and then just enter a cycle of repetition for the rest of it's duration - and not the sweet, hypnotic or atmospheric kind of repetition, the "we didn't really have much else" kind. I still think that a couple of songs on here stand on their own merit, like Devour or Four Rusted Horses, but yeah, my sympathy for THOL has wavered.
As for the review... you can't seriously call Twiggy Ramirez a fantastic guitarist, can you? I mean, it just comes across as bias. All of the instrumentral parts on this record are so simple, even his earlier stuff is more complex, both playing- and sound-wise.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Yes, some of this stuff is pretty hard to take seriously in your twenties. "This isn't rain... ...it's God pissing down on you" is pretty cringe-worthy, especially when you visualise it being belted out by a middle-aged mass of badly handled flesh in make-up
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Album Rating: 2.5
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't see him live at this point; from what I've seen online, his shows were terrible.
I don't know, maybe I'm a little harsh on this one, but everytime I go back to it all I hear is Manson trying to search for that "old fire," and it puts me right off. Even Twiggy's lacklustre on this thing.
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