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| 2.0 poor | EasterInTheBatcave | August 18th 16 |
We have one legitimately fantastic song ("Canada") and then a bunch of good parts scattered throughout the rest. At any rate, this is a fun album-- the songwriting won't win any awards, but the musicians' technical skill is top notch, and their energy in the recording is palpable. Don't be dismayed by the atrocious introductory opener; you'll have fun with the rest.
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| 3.5 great | atmanknows1 | September 14th 13 |
It's really easy to give a phenomenal rating when the skill of the musician's is fucking mindblowing. However, it takes more than being a technician to be a really good musician. BtA has got some absolutely wonderful moments that show their penchant for both, but in the end, the album's failing (in my opinion) is probably what is objectively it's greatest achievement. If anything, the album is a giant question mark in the face of people who believe that there must be discernable logic to make music good. I like that. But this isn't an album that I pull out all the time because I love. Just every once in a while to feel completely perplexed.
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| 3.0 good | wyankeif1337 | July 25th 10 |
WANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANK
Gotta be in the right mood to enjoy this stuff.
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| 2.0 poor | nick0307 | June 9th 09 |
Amazingly complex, crazy rhythms, insane time signatures, lots of dissonance, noise, chromatic nonsense, lots of everything i love really... but every time you hear some cool little potential hook you will briefly get excited, but soon realise that you will never hear it again in the song. Any hooks or glimpse of accessibility is very short lived in this 'not for the faint of heart' album. Incredible compositions, but musically, it just sounds like random noise from a band of talentless 12 year olds trying to play impressive stuff most of the time, unless you've listened to each track about 7 million times and are able to remember every crazy little intricacy. I love and hate this album at the same time... its weird. its definitely worth a listen though, however, the cold reverb-y production of the album puts me off ALOT. In my opinion the drums sound awful. How could the engineer have been content with such a terrible drum sound?
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| 2.5 average | Larsmr10 | January 2nd 09 |
I just could not get into this album. I enjoy math/tech metal, but there was just something that I did not enjoy about these guys. I must say though, these guys do have some wicked guitar and drum skills.
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| 4.0 excellent | Psychaberration | October 28th 08 |
Arctopus just exapnds their sound while revisiting some classic arcto-metal. which is a terrific thing.
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| 4.5 superb | Rickabobaloey | December 22nd 07 |
An excellent album. I've only listened to a few times but it's definitely going into my list of favorites for the year. Some amazing tangents these guys go off into. I'd love to see the do something with Jean Baudin of Nuclear Rabbit.
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| 3.0 good | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | April 11th 25 |
| 2.5 average | Glovoc | April 12th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Shwany | January 13th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Azrael | December 1st 21 |
| 3.5 great | Drej | April 11th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | "Tab" | November 20th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | P0laris | September 23rd 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Risodo | August 17th 18 |
| 2.5 average | solrage | January 4th 18 |
| 2.5 average | jsaf7 | September 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rmazer | June 16th 17 |
| 3.5 great | ziroth | February 28th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | 2ool | February 17th 17 |
| 3.5 great | tellah | December 1st 16 |
| 3.0 good | Wolfe | November 29th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Kronzo | November 10th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Henry | May 14th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Abraxas | April 30th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Pegana | January 25th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | tarcus | September 10th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Garm | August 3rd 15 |
| 2.5 average | Qorx | July 6th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | April 5th 14 |
| 3.0 good | akimbo | January 2nd 14 |
| 3.0 good | tlhk | June 14th 13 |
| 2.0 poor | mursu | March 26th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | JS19 | February 19th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Sevhead | January 8th 13 |
| 3.5 great | GB7 | September 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ssssssss | September 10th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Curse. | August 8th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Troggy | January 4th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mitch S. | November 30th 11 |
| 3.0 good | itchy | May 2nd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | ev0ken | April 29th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | RFGM | March 8th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wheelah | March 4th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Brodeo65 | December 26th 10 |
| 3.0 good | MO | December 13th 10 |
| 3.5 great | TT | December 12th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | iamdave | October 28th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | shuffly | August 31st 10 |
| 3.5 great | Shaad | June 9th 10 |
| 3.0 good | JohnW | February 10th 10 |
| 3.0 good | X3ni92 | January 21st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wizard | June 11th 09 |
| 2.5 average | DrReg | June 4th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | GibTG | April 30th 09 |
| 3.5 great | f2f | October 21st 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | keithk | September 7th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | dieto | August 31st 08 |
| 3.5 great | RJayZ | May 12th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Slaytan | April 21st 08 |
| 1.5 very poor | Thor | April 9th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Zoo | February 22nd 08 |
| 3.5 great | 459 | December 29th 07 |
| 2.5 average | Skyler | December 3rd 07 |
| 2.5 average | barbu | November 8th 07 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gmaj | October 18th 07 |
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