maudlin of the Well   My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible
3.9
excellent
Ranking: #100 for 1999

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4.5 superbAnimalsAsSummit | August 12th 18

The most emotion-driven metal album ever? Perhaps. This is some of the most nostalgic music I've ever heard. Sounds precisely like the sounds of my childhood dreams. Unbelievable and mysteriously beautiful.

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4.0 excellentAlabaster Jones | February 25th 16

My Fruit Psychobells... was my formal introduction to motW, and by the fiends this album is good. Compositionally, this album is a pretty avant-garde take on progressive metal, with influences coming in from death metal, doom metal, jazz, post-rock, and art rock. The songwriting is quite fantastic, as the music ebbs and flows organically and goes through many interesting and gratifying progressions. "Undine And Underwater Flowers" is perhaps the best example of this, using a nice, middle-eastern-sounding bass solo before segueing into one of the most beautiful sections of post-rock I've ever heard. More instruments and vocals are added into the mix as time goes on, and by the end of the song the feeling of content is undeniable. The album is hindered a bit by its shortly production job, but that's pretty much the only thing wrong with the album from a sonic standpoint. Overall, ...A Seed Combustible is quite the beginning for one of the most forward-thinking bands metal has ever seen.

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3.5 greatSAPoodle | September 30th 11

If the production wasn't so bad (even on the remaster) this would be much better. That said however, this is still a fucking solid album that is in the same vein as maudlin's two classics "Bath" and "Leaving Your Body Map". Just not quite up to the standard of those though, but a fantastic debut nevertheless and one that is sadly overlooked by many fans.

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4.0 excellentEatThatPhonebook | May 20th 10

Not bad at all, MFPASC is an extremely interesting album, with creepy atmospheres in some moments, comforting in other, relaxing in some, violent in other. If you're a MOTW fan, you should definitely give this a try

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