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Trifolium
July 10th 2020


38990 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah this sounds like it is going to be horrible.

TheSpaceMan
July 10th 2020


13614 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

anyone wanna remix the ubi speech into a health advisory for uti awareness?

Lord(e)Po)))ts
July 10th 2020


70240 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

honestly I just watched these and it has changed my tune about the idea. i do hope the actual ep will be sans speeches (im certain it will) but a few thoughts:



massive attacks politics have been an important aspect of their presence for a long time, particularly over the last decade or so, and as someone who generally empathizes with their beliefs these speeches are actually feeling quite powerful and critical. the combination of the speeches and the excellent visuals and the music honestly made me tear up. the young fathers song is particularly great.



ma has been going the audio/visual route for a while now and it has been very effective imo. it might leave me yearning for another LP but with a band as huge, impactful, and political as ma it was kind of inevitable that they eventually would transcend convention. this seems natural to me. gonna wait to rate til the actual ep drops but i'm ok with this after all. it's very massive attack.

TheSpaceMan
July 10th 2020


13614 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah for sure its not like this came out of nowhere and its also from a genuinely good place and is well thought out (ie not a white middle class indie band going "WE NEED TO KILL BEZOS AND SAVE THE WOMEN"). the visuals were amazing too esp the human faces one.

Lord(e)Po)))ts
July 10th 2020


70240 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah that vid was my fav, hypnotizing

TheSpaceMan
July 10th 2020


13614 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

remarkably successful at conditioning my brain to apply my asian girl fetish onto chiseled chin black men

Lord(e)Po)))ts
July 10th 2020


70240 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

LOL

TheSpaceMan
July 10th 2020


13614 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

im glad that wasnt taken seriously lmao

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
January 3rd 2021


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 3.8

This is an interesting one. Some plodding nonsense like the weakest Protection tracks, but also nice atmosphere like the last two, and some of their best songs with great build-ups.

polyrhythm
January 5th 2021


2599 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

File this album under "devastating waste of potential"

polyrhythm
January 5th 2021


2599 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

The production is gorgeous and the vinyl is all glittery and cool, but a shiny exterior does not a good album make. There's no masking the fact there is nothing really lurking beneath that lovely gleam. Soulless songs, empty calories

ArsMoriendi
March 4th 2022


41033 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Really bland at some points, but Babel is awesome



I feel like 3D's voice is extra nasal on this one, which is weird because it's always been super nasal



Also as a big Mazzy Star fan, I feel like I'm supposed to love Paradise Circus, but I don't

TheSpaceMan
March 4th 2022


13614 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

its okay ars i think its overatted too

TheSpaceMan
March 4th 2022


13614 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

but aside from splitting the atom which is a highlight, the 3D songs are my least favorite

parksungjoon
June 13th 2022


47234 Comments


i like how pray for rain starts with some 80s sonic youth lmao

parksungjoon
June 13th 2022


47234 Comments


splitting the atom = tom waits for millennial kid a fans

parksungjoon
June 13th 2022


47234 Comments


actually it kinda sounds like gorillaz doesnt it lmao

zakalwe
June 21st 2023


38887 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Another one of them albums that came out 13yrs ago but seems far more than that.

I bought this from the Virgin Megastore and it seems about 30yrs ago.

Still a very average listen.

Shemson
June 21st 2023


4156 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Will always think this one is underrated

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
October 22nd 2023


26167 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

honestly i like their last two better than their first two



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