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| 3.5 great | Bedex | July 14th 20 |
For the most part this feels more like a stylistic/performative exercise of making tracks with distorted drum machines, fx and not much else, which I can appreciate and really didn't mind but also wouldn't really seek out as a piece of music to listen to again. There are also a couple tracks where the music is just a background for long voice samples, chiefly the opening track and 9. I find it better done on 9 where it doesn't disrupt the musical aspect at all which finds the message reinforced, whereas opening on one long sample like this feels a bit like a sequencing mistake - which doesn't say anything about the message per se of course. Where this record truly shines however is when it manages to mix the drummachinecore to other things. While tracks like 2 and 4 are cool sonic objects, 3 stands out between them by incorporating brass into a sort of glitch-jazz vibe. The tastefully dissonant piano on 6 is another example, and the album ends on a peak with the continuous 10 and 11 being a masterclass at using voice samples intelligently as textures and not just a centepeiece, with 11 bringing in the brass back in a great conclusion with amazing distorted sounds too. An album of tracks like these and the jazzy/piano based ones would easily be at least middle 4.0 tier if not more, but here they feel like they merely drag up by a point or two an album that feels like it spreads its ideas out far too much. 3.6
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| 3.0 good | Ryus | December 22nd 20 |
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