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glad this got featured

Great review. I need to check this out

Album Rating: 4.5

how the fuck does this only have 31 ratings. oh yea that's right, sputnik is too busy creaming itself over the new bmth

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glad this eventually got featured



Adash should have applied for contrib.

Album Rating: 4.5

Thank you kindly bredrin, much appreciated.



After being on the move for the last 8 months I've finally settled down, so will have more time for reviews and such, work permitting

Album Rating: 3.0

Congrats on the feature (but, yeah, it's a good review and all).



I only heard this once, but I think it's best to go easy on it. However, I believe I'm really going to like this.

Album Rating: 5.0

this is a great review in terms of style but...

"creeping, mutated arpeggios and enormously fat synths being propelled along by rumbling claptrap rhythms that occasionally require a calculator to deconstruct"

"twisted metal parts are forced together into skeletal contraptions"



how is that organic?



Apollonian* And what about this exactly is Apollonian (and more specifically, what do you mean by Apollonian?). Apollo's instrument was the lyre, a folksy string instrument. Are you sure, once again, that this is Apollonian? Or perhaps you're suggesting that this is intelligent and polished and dignified like the Apollonian split of the Apollo-Dionysus metaphor suggests?



I agree that The Seer is definitely Dionysian (at least that's what I hope you were getting at) but describing something "that is far better off unleashed and unrestrained, unapologetic in its grandeur" isn't Apollonian, is it?



The point of my nitpicking is this: you're a great writer but this reeks of overwriting. The prose is fine, maybe a tad flowery for my tastes but that just boils down to preference. No, the issue with this review is it seems there are a few tossed in intellectual ideas that never get properly developed. I'm not going to shove reasons into your mouth as to why this is the case. This is simply what I took away from the review.

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well you took away some weirdly misguided bullshit. the writing is fine, and your accusations of forced intellectualism hold no weight.

Album Rating: 5.0

Thank you for answering, author of this review. Let me ask you something---what exactly did

you take away from the Dionysus/Apollo comment? He might have been referring to something completely

different, but the only context with which I've heard that is exactly the split I refer to in my

post. It's a split between refined intellectualism and animalistic passion, which is more or less

exactly what he's referring to.



So let me ask you a question. What is your problem? Why are you being so defensive in response to a

post that is certainly polite? The author is a great writer, clearly, so I'm not sure why you even

posted "the writing is fine."



As for "your accusations of forced intellectualism hold no weight"---why would you say that? There's

a good chance you've never heard of the split. I don't believe it's an oft-discussed topic, so I'm

not calling you stupid or anything. It's something my English teacher talked about with regards to A

Streetcar Named Desire.



I'm trying to have an actual conversation with the author, who might give me insight as to why he

chose that comparison. So what exactly is your problem?

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toxin bro you are a true gentleman

nice good shit adash

Album Rating: 4.5

Ok, so this is officially the best thing I've heard so far this year.

Album Rating: 4.5

Lets clear a few things up shall we



1) I chat enough breeze to give a man a cold. Todd from RA gave me shit for this so I understand where you're coming from. That said, everything in this review remains pertinent and relevant



2) Check what Apollo did to Marsyas when he pissed off the god. The divide is not as clearcut as first appears. Yet the Dionysian is instinctual violence; the Apollinian can revel in destruction just as much, but it is a conscious joy

Album Rating: 4.5

Care to share which reviews exactly you did for RA?

Album Rating: 4.5

Point is he is one ruthless mofucka at editing and would have made mincemeat of my Exai review. Pariah Rift, Fluxion Traces the choice picks

how're adash + clercqie not contributerized yet?

I hate this band, but I might give this a shot

Amazing review, pos. I'll look for it!

Album Rating: 5.0

"2) Check what Apollo did to Marsyas when he pissed off the god. The divide is not as clearcut as first appears. Yet the Dionysian is instinctual violence; the Apollinian can revel in destruction just as much, but it is a conscious joy"



Ah so that's what you were getting at. It definitely makes enough sense to me, though I still disagree about your characterization of this as organic (just based off the rest of your review). But I'll give you your pos now