Album Rating: 3.5
The Brain Dance, Apeirophobia, and Backpfeifengesicht are the big highlights for me. It's a cool album, but so much of the guitarwork feels kinda incestuous and it all kind of runs together on a lot of tracks. Hopefully this grows on me after a couple more listens.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Not really feeling this. The only song I genuinely enjoyed was Apeirophobia. Sigh. Time to wait another two years.
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I dug this album a lot, but I don't think it's better than The Joy of Motion and it absolutely cannot touch the debut. It might grow on me over time, because I didn't like The Joy of Motion much at first, but now I really like it.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Only track that felt on par with the majority of The Joy of Motion was "The Brain Dance" upon first listen.
Really hoping this grows one me. Matt Garstka kills it per usual, but it feels like Tosin just hit a wall at a lot of points, especially with his leads.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Bet this rules hard.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Am I the only one who had problems with the production on TJoM?
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Album Rating: 3.5
it had better production than the first two so probably
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Album Rating: 4.0
Am I the only one who really dislikes the guitar tone on the s/t?
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Album Rating: 4.0
am i the only one who is the only one?
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Album Rating: 3.5
"but so much of the guitarwork feels kinda incestuous and it all kind of runs together on a lot of tracks"
this, when they run out of ideas you can really tell. i get a lot of those vibes on this
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i heard two of the tracks from this and they were awful
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Album Rating: 3.0
Great album, but this can't touch their s/t or TJoM.
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
Been a huge fan of AAL since the beginning. I would rank the albums JOM>S/T>Weightless.
This one is their worst. They have lost all sense of melody and relied too heavy on thumping, polyrhythms, and guitar-as-percussion. I am not a big fan of meshuggah and this album seems similar to their style. I cant even groove to this album because the parts that have nice melodies are few and far between. Big disappointment tbh. Also, the drummer plays more ghost notes than actual hits. Wtf mate
Also, i know they boast a lot about music theory, but just about 0 notes in this tracklisting give me any feeling.
/endrant
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Also, the drummer plays more ghost notes than actual hits. Wtf mate"
ghost notes are all the rage now haven't you hearD?!
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Album Rating: 3.5
tosin and friends got so technical it feels to me they approached this record more like an electronic one if that makes sense.
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Album Rating: 4.0
@MO what's a ghost note?
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@Ocean of Noise
They're embellishments on the snare. You let the stick bounce on the snare when you're not playing it but usually it goes unnoticed hence the term "ghost note", it's done to keep the flow of rhythm.
Also not sure what to think of this, probably their weakest album yet IMO, especially after how good JOM was. Gonna need a lot of re-listens for it to sink in.
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Album Rating: 2.5
a ghost note (in drumming at least) is just when you strike (usually the snare) in a much softer way then usual. it doesnt really bring attention to itself like drumming usually does and is generally pretty faint
i played drums for a bit and got taught properly but that was a long time ago and i gave it up pretty early on into learning so i might be wrong
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Album Rating: 2.5
yeah what drummerboy said
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Album Rating: 4.0
Huh... Weird. Didn't know that was a thing
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