Album Rating: 4.0
I love that album. It's like heavier Mandylion-style music with death growls.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Good review. Great album. I'd give this 4.5 but gave 5 cause of Anneke's awesome vocals.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Good decision.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Band rules so hard.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Nighttime Birds
Mandylion
If_then_else
Disclosure
Home
How to Measure a planet
Souvenires
Always
The West Pole
Almost a Dance
Afterlights
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Album Rating: 4.0
How to Measure a planet is first for me followed by Nightime birds.
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Album Rating: 4.0
The title track on this is still fucking amazing, been digging this alot latter half of last year.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah it's very atmospheric.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Man this is incredible. Listening atm and it sounds as awesome as the first time I jammed it.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Souvenirs
How to Measure a Planet
If_Then_Else
Nighttime Birds
Home/Disclosure
Mandylion
The West Pole
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Album Rating: 5.0
Mandylion
Nighttime Birds
How to Measure a Planet?
if_then_else
Home
Souvenirs
Disclosure
The West Pole
Always
Almost a Dance
Afterwords
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Album Rating: 5.0
I agree with your list manos; however, Nighttime Birds would be #1 for me and I'd trade places between Home and Souvenirs
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Album Rating: 4.0
Love this album. Haven't heard anything else by these guys yet
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Album Rating: 4.0
What, they have an album worse than Almost a Dance?
I can't fathom that.
The 2 first songs on here are just fantastic.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Well, on Almost a Dance they tried to do something, experiment with their sound. Their last album is pretty much soulless to the point where I couldn't believe how a band like The Gathering with their talent and experience could release such an album.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Thanks, I will stay far away from that album.
Here's a gem that sometimes make me think of Mandylion. Without Face: Astronomicon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8OXIGQkZEo
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Album Rating: 5.0
Cool man, thanks.
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Album Rating: 4.5
If I remember right, then this is the album where I fell in love with Anneke Van Giersbergen as a vocalist-and more importantly, The Gathering. It hasn't changed since. In fact, "Leaves" was the introduction to the band for me and so inevitable I checked out Mandylion, and I'm sure many others have gone the same way. As for the album itself, I've determined over the years that the best thing about Mandylion is that the instrumental arrangements are just as prominent and useful as Anneke's vocal delivery. The songwriting here is, for the most part immaculate. "Strange Machines", both parts of "In Motion" and "Sand and Mercury" are all elegant, powerful and emotional in the right ways. A couple of songs are consdierably weaker in my opinion ("Eleanor" and "Fear the Sea"), but aren't so enough to drag the overall experience down. If one song really stands out to me from Mandylion, it has to be the title track. That's simply the cream of the crop, which uses the flute to the fullest advantage I think.
I guess what I'm really saying here is, I love this album.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Great comment, I agree with almost everything.
"the best thing about Mandylion is that the instrumental arrangements are just as prominent and useful as Anneke's vocal delivery."
Exactly. To varying degrees, her first three albums with the band have very strong arrangements and excellent guitar playing, something that's often overshadowed by Anneke's incredible vocals. Especially Mandylion and Nighttime Birds benefited by the combination of the doomy guitars and the strong vocals.
Regarding the weak tracks on here, I really can't find any as every note on this album takes me back to the first time I listened to it.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Regarding the weak tracks on here, I really can't find any as every note on this album takes me back to the first time I listened to it.
Agreed hard. I first listened to this album in my late teens (17 I think), and that awe-inspiring feeling you get is still there in every succeeding listen after the first.
It's also amazing how a) this album is officially 20 years old this year and b) I had my third birthday when Mandylion was released. As they say, "The more you know".
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