Album Rating: 4.3
twas the joke, kid
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Album Rating: 3.0
Get page breaked, pal.
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Album Rating: 4.3
don't let your parsing over take your humour, also
"Is Na the best song ever written?"
yes
"Grind is here to save the year, it has been decided"
yes and the new GridLink absolutely stomps too. had been a pretty slow year for grind compared to last year, but we're now cooking
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Album Rating: 4.0
Gee fucking whiz I listened to this in bed and the closer got my heart rate up far enough that I had to turn the lights on and read to calm down. Since crazy good stuff on here
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is super sick, love it
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Album Rating: 4.0
Can’t wait to hear that gridlink, maybe best modern nerdy heavy band
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Album Rating: 3.5
Touring the Midwest rn for any of you midwesterners
Probably gonna see them in a couple of weeks
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Album Rating: 4.0
Such a weird album and hard to digest at first. Still like it . Need more listens
Also B, C A D but I like all part. I do love the concept of the album
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Album Rating: 4.5
Incredible album. Aniumati, Anyol, Bid, Ba, NA, BP, the last 5 tracks - esp W. So many highlights
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Album Rating: 4.0
NA and BP back to back are probably my highlights for sure atm
I wish sputnik would hype these type of records more than the pile of mid to meh modern metalcore/altcore
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Album Rating: 4.5
^ 100%
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This is probably the double album these guys wanted to record since Lathi Charge.
Haven't heard the entire album yet, but I intend to, since I dig everything else Chepang have put out.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I dont think you are gonna be dissapointed.
My only "issue" with the album atm is that except BA NA nothing stands out as much as those. The quality of all tracks is still pretty high though
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Album Rating: 3.5
ye seems like the 4 sides were intended to be viewed as the 4 tracks/key movements, more so than any individual tracks (with the exception of BA NA agreed).
guess makes sense that they made the track names so abstract, and tracks flow into one another. that and the pacing made the first few listens challenging for me as agreed not much stands out to grip onto trying to survive the 54 min onslaught. still think it hurts listen-ability, but tbh i dont think anyone could make almost an hour of solid grind "listenable" without overtly fusing it with other genres to give breathers e.g. that Cleric album. or interludes / more overt tempo shifts a la terrifyer
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah, it’s definitely REAL long by grind standards. I still haven’t listened to the whole thing in a sitting
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Album Rating: 4.3
I'd say Anyol, Bid and JC are very obvious + generously spacious borderline tracks and that sides B and D have clear shifts of pace against A and C, but
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Album Rating: 3.5
fwiw i agree that this is one of the most ambitious and interesting things ive heard anyone do with grind in a solid minute, i'm just saying that (FOR ME PERSONALLY) it does not lend itself to a front-to-back listen, which is a shame, and a keener focus on pacing may have helped with that.
like, shove in a recurring non-grind motif/interlude at the turn of each side, coloured in a way reflective of the sound we've just heard or are about to hear, and that'd at least help with path-finding (e.g. the sort of thing liturgy did damn well this year). that 3 of the 29(!) tracks, all of which fall in the first third of the runtime, provide something of a breather doesn't achieve that consistent wave breaking (again, imo).
example of what im getting at: i only discovered how amazing side C was after jumping straight into it without A and B, and again only had the stomach to tussle with the clusterfuck that is side D when listened to in isolation. made we realise how tiring the first two sides are as a precursor to the heaviest/nastiest slices of the pie. its a harsh critique, given i accept attempting to do a 54 min genre victory lap is arguably never going to result in easy listening, but i dont think that invalidates the line of criticism. i appreciate you really like the LP and that is genuinely great, but the mild pass agg and 'you dont get it because you are not very good at distinguishing different sounds' putdowns (a la crisis sigil thread) are patronising in a way you are typically above.
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Album Rating: 4.3
i mean, i agree with the basis of that critique, but
"shove in a recurring non-grind motif/interlude at the turn of each side"
given that the album literally already does this, i'm not exactly convinced by it in practice
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Album Rating: 3.5
‘I wish sputnik would hype these type of records more than the pile of mid to meh modern metalcore/altcore’
Truer words have never been spoken
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Album Rating: 4.0
These fellas are playing with Knoll soonish, gonna be fucked
Also album progressively gets better as it goes (D>C>B>A) and is quite a bit more than the sum of its parts but A borders on snoozer territory on its own/works much better in context
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