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| 0.0 | former sputnik's home post-punk maester | January 16th 18 |
dibs on the first review, unless butcher beats
me to it
EDIT: deal. thankfully, iceage haven't announced
anything
EDIT: the game is on! first one to review, the
only one to have a review out
EDIT: good for you, butch. that makes you only a
week behind.
EDIT for Sandwich: that's unfair, some of us are
actually going to be affected by that
EDIT after Fripp's review: You have bested me,
damn you!
7 Bumps | Bump |
| 2.9 good | praise jimmy EMERITUS | January 16th 18 |
Um excuse me?
These post punk boys are all mine, but i can share with good company such as yours.
6 Bumps | Bump |
| 3.0 good | SandwichBubble | January 16th 18 |
Negs and mental negs locked and loaded for all these reviews
4 Bumps | Bump |
| 3.0 good | butcherboy | January 16th 18 |
Uni, i'll give you preoccupations, but new iceage is mine..
EDIT: I'm going to write a gorgeous template post-punk review today with all the right words, with blank spaces left for band name and song names, and then just fill it in and post it the second the album streams.. good luck, suckers..
EDIT: Sandwich, you'll reconsider when I give this album the invariable 3.5 it will deserve..
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| 0.0 | CompostCompote | January 16th 18 |
I might get in on this just to annoy the artist formerly known as UniqueUniverse.
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| 1.5 very poor | becomesmusical | March 24th 18 |
This band has a history of being so mind numbingly boring, even when they had a more impactful name and were releasing music marginally worthy of merit, I still managed to fall asleep at one of their festival performances. That fact may have been the consequence of a possible TBI from an earlier group performing, mind you, but the scenario still reflects upon Preoccupations' ability to "excite" when performing at their absolute best. What could be said, then, about them at their worst, or, perhaps of greatest concern, their most lukewarm of states? Well, if this album is of any indication, the group formerly known as Viet Cong remains wholly incompetent in regards to providing something compelling for their listeners.
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| 3.0 good | TheManMachine | June 17th 18 |
Ever since they amended their name and started committing exclusively to one-word song titles they've sounded like a stiffer and tamer version of themselves. In that respect this doubles down on their last one -- this just isn't the same band that partook in hi-hat blitzkriegs and savage 11-minute bliss-jams. Now they near competent new-wave/post-punk cyborgs. The shrugness of naming this new material 'New Material' translates to the tunes as well; slow things down or take away a solid groove and bass-line and it kinda crumbles. But as always the production imparts an eerie warmth that goes a long way, instrumentals more engagingly plain than outright boring. Fave may be the ender's haunted VHS electro-drone, the only one that's vox-free btw. A sign, methinks.
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| 2.5 average | TheSpaceMan | May 22nd 18 |
Compliance is a really good song
so is espionage
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| 3.5 great | meenwolf131 | March 30th 18 |
more mellow existential exposure of post-punk soundscape / constructed by groovy bass and rhythmic parts / deliver both aggressive and sweet dreamy vocal by synth-driven, industrial atmosphere, and chiming guitar
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| 3.0 good | OrjanSult | March 25th 18 |
On their third LP, Preoccupations don't sacrifice what's good about their sound, but come dangerously close to threading the line between boredom and gloom.
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| 4.0 excellent | lurxy | April 13th 24 |
| 2.5 average | doofy | January 9th 24 |
| 3.0 good | MvdW | December 6th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Prole | October 18th 22 |
| 3.0 good | gdask | September 26th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Jekub | August 22nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | TMTrates | February 24th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Subaru | July 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Turns13 | November 1st 19 |
| 2.5 average | A.R.O. STAFF | January 23rd 19 |
| 3.0 good | Yotimi | December 20th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Pangea | December 9th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Juanpa | October 4th 18 |
| 3.5 great | jusdiz | August 22nd 18 |
| 2.5 average | ProfC | June 12th 18 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | May 21st 18 |
| 3.0 good | Henry | April 1st 18 |
| 2.5 average | adr | March 29th 18 |
| 2.5 average | anat CONTRIBUTOR | March 27th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Skoop | March 26th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | rufous | March 26th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Keira | March 25th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Rail | March 25th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Jade | March 24th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Jordan M. EMERITUS | March 24th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Lucman | March 24th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Greem | March 23rd 18 |
| 3.5 great | tyler | March 17th 18 |
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