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| 3.5 great | joplinpicasso | August 2nd 11 |
A step away from the Slint influence and more along the lines of jamming and post-punk, Tropics And Meridians is the sound of being trapped in an old wooden ship at sea, about to sink. The songs are a bit more thematic than June Of 44's debut, but one wonders if perhaps they couldn't have included one more track on this six-song set; but no matter... The music is more progressive, with no discernible traditional song structures, yet the songs themselves are a bit disjointed from one another; the high-end, soft guitar lines do sound more confidently written and played than those on Engine Takes To The Water, and the math-rock parts start sounding more like noisy funk (see the fantastic bridge of "Anisette", "June Leaf", and the metaphorical boat finally going down to the depths in "Sanctioned In A Birdcage"). Most telling, however, is "Arms Over Arteries" - the fragile guitar dissonance, rolling drums, and low-hum singing is expanded on in later albums.
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| 4.5 superb | Metaxu | May 12th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | mallen- | June 26th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | xxm | May 23rd 19 |
| 4.5 superb | crab | January 29th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | tyler | April 10th 18 |
| 3.0 good | skronk | March 28th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fear | January 2nd 18 |
| 4.5 superb | akimbo | November 23rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | November 1st 16 |
| 5.0 classic | loulou | February 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ankit | February 4th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Artax36 | April 23rd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Vagner | January 25th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | krkat | June 17th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | MrChuck | December 6th 10 |
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