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Review Summary: I was a fish in human form that night “How long ago was it? I was traveling in Hokkaido and stopped by PROVO and saw a band I didn't know playing. As if through a rule bound by their own strict precepts, the experimental consciousness dissolved into the void, and before I knew it, the floor was submerged in a deep sea. I could breathe even though I was in the sea! I was a fish in human form that night.”
It was a revelation, the tetrapod leaving the sanctity of its ocean home to tread the land and see the sky and feel the stroke and sting of the breeze for the first time, having not once dreamt about or even considered what else there was for millennia, and despite its limbs being hardly capable of supporting its weight, acting unknowingly and unwittingly as perhaps the exact midpoint of the evolutionary bridge between the gilled aquatic and the lung-bearing terrestrial, entirely beholden to the deeply innate pursuit of progress and unperturbed by fear of the unknown even if owed only to insentient ignorance, and ultimately setting into motion an infinite chain of events that would eventually lead to, though not conclude with, the seven-minute hum of Oceans11 that opens Glans’ Slow Tree without once flashing the hand that would give away that it is more gripping and wide-eyed than a baby, still a while away from experiencing the nuances of thought or the minutiae of emotion, driven all the same by its intangible coding, ensnaring the thumb pressed into its palm of an adult human, knower of things, stimuli reactant, hauled over peat bogs and bramble patches by the rumbling drums of NIN that stipend in spirited spades and move like the time-lapsed shifting of a landscape, instituting Slow Tree as a merciful, benevolent rewarder of a tense, anxious
patience.
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Album Rating: 5.0
this is club music for amp enjoyers
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Sounds interesting, fun review
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thanks slex, I can only write in gimmick nowadays
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Those recs got my ears buzzing
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Yes, it's the Black Eyes rec for me. Will check this out.
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that’s a robust rating dad
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Are we Human or are we Flounder?
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that joke is off the scale
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Lovely
| | | Album Rating: 3.8
It's a robust album, if a little thin in places
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I want to say that the 4:58 moment of NIN has not left my brain for a few days
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
I think “a little thin” is being maybe a bit generous. The whole first 3 minutes of this is quite literally nothing. And the ambience that eventually forms is nice enough but nothing about it sounds particularly remarkable. I do like how the whole thing is sequenced but the payoff doesn’t seem worth it to me. Some downright grating moments on here too, like how in the first half of Ten there’s this loud beeping as if they’re sampling an EKG machine or something. There’s a similar effect in Deep A but I’d liken that one more to the sound of Chinese water torture lol.
There are some enjoyable moments and I especially like how everything flows and transitions so seamlessly. I also think the latter half of NIN is excellent. The closer was also a nice surprise. Maybe I just need to be in the right headspace for this. 2.5 for now but I’ll revisit when I’m not feeling sick and see if it hits better.
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I guess whatever you think is thin, I think of as being tautly exercised restraint, even on my fifth and sixth listens I feel as though I’m being kept guessing and the mounting tension is palpable. it’s very well designed like that imo
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when you go swimming on shrooms
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
yes this is the underwater bojack episode
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
This is real good, may bump it to a ten. It's a mood after listening to more dynamic forms of music. The "nothing" at the beginning pulls me right in.
There's aspects of it that remind of GY!BE/Post-rock type stuff. But that sound, and overall, I think is not even close to being fleshed out to it's full potential, like this artist doesn't have the confidence or know-how to achieve what they're going for.
A tentatively too wordy comment here for my likes, but I appreciate that artists keep making sounds like this. Follow the drone!
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Did I say bump it to a ten? I meant four. lol. Think I was reading the track list there.
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too late, you’ve got to bump it to ten now
I don’t know that the potential thing means that the band are lacking in skill or will so much as there’s a lot of room to develop their sounds and sensibilities into a proper proper classic
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a fantastic review that makes me never again want to feel the harsh drop of a full stop
loved this when i checked it
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Head trip
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