| | Full Review | Ratings (312) |
Give your Rating |
| 4.5 superb | DoofusWainwright | May 8th 18 |
Most interesting guitar work of 2018? Could be..........................................................
4 Bumps | Bump |
| 4.0 excellent | butcherboy | May 8th 18 |
nice to see him harken back to some proper band-work and not the impotent electronic fuckfest feelin' kinda free was.. top 10 of the year so far..
2 Bumps | Bump |
| 4.5 superb | owl beanie EMERITUS | May 16th 18 |
the downside is we're all about to get royally fucked, the upside is we're all about to get screwed
1 Bumps | Bump |
| 3.0 good | Erwann S. STAFF | August 31st 22 |
When TFS go for Drones-like raging rock tunes like on the opener or "Soft Power", A Laughing Death in Meatspace effing slaps. When it goes for atonal shit, it's just atonal shit - and you gotta like atonal shit.
Bump |
| 3.0 good | Rik VII (sound-off ratings out of 10) | September 3rd 19 |
The album cover is spot-on, amazing. The music, I don't like quite as much. The sound is interesting, like a slower, more aggressive Joy Division at times while also utilizing some insanely noisy guitar sound settings. The instrumentation is simplistic, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the drums in particular are some of the most boring I've heard. The vocals range from energetic to annoying and I can't really decide which overweighs the other. A good and somewhat fascinating listen overall, but nothing I'm expecting to return to anytime soon. - 5.5
Bump |
| 4.0 excellent | TheManMachine | September 29th 18 |
Diggers like to sing the praises of Liddiard's lyrics, but the thick-n-slurred accent and confounding arrangements often camouflage em. Certain curiosities will cryptically poke through -- crackerjack Australian coke, the USSSSSR, an adios for the cast of Happy Days -- but his unstable snarlin' suavity does the trick on its own, with fellow Droneser Fiona Kitschin supplying sweeter+clearer femme-vox foil. As for those confounding arrangements: masterfully messy and in the moment, dirty yet diapasonal, colorful and chaotic, refreshingly radical for a rock band in 2018. An exhausting thrill and a half.
Bump |
| 3.5 great | cjbizzlebizzle | June 22nd 18 |
Dissonant, chaotic and noisy post punk with a whole lot of other subtle influences and a nice contrast between the two vocalists. The guitar work and instrumental material in general deserves high praise due to it's abstract and unique nature. Nothing about the album is straightforward but it flows along very smoothly and naturally. Gareth Liddiard's vocals are probably not for everyone. At times it is a bit hard to buy his manic, desperate sounding vocals. His approach general comes down to him rambling on about real world issues and after four to five tracks this gets a bit repetitive and tiring. The album starts off with a massive bang in "You Let My Tyres Down' and comes close to reaching that quality again but not quite; this one is somewhat frontloaded and the quality fades in the latter half. A must listen due to its unique nature but after ten or more listens the magic starts to fade.
Bump |
| 0.0 | VaxXi | May 18th 18 |
"uhhhh butch idk what album ur listening to but this is clearly using a lot of the electronic
equipment that defined the sound of feelin kinda free, and is once again another step forward for
liddiard's constant boundary pushing "
Yeah, I don't know how you can listen to a song like Two Afternoons and not notice how much it
takes from the sound of a song like "Then They Came for Me".
Bump |
| 0.0 | Black Daimon | May 16th 18 |
"nice to see him harken back to some proper band-work and not the impotent electronic fuckfest feelin' kinda free was" uhhhh butch idk what album ur listening to but this is clearly using a lot of the electronic equipment that defined the sound of feelin kinda free, and is once again another step forward for liddiard's constant boundary pushing
Bump |
| 4.5 superb | keza | May 16th 18 |
This is an incredible post punk experience with a touch of psych rock influence. Full review coming up. But people need to hear this manic and fantastic rock album.
Bump |
| 4.5 superb | noahconstrictor | May 14th 18 |
First off, you can't really go wrong with a band called Tropical Fuck Storm. You know you're in for a fun time by the band name already. Going in, I was expecting some fun, trippy stuff, and I wasn't disappointed one bit. The riffs are meaty and heavy, the vocals are varied and the lyrics are top notch, and everything else just melds into this amazing orchestra of sound. Certainly worth multiple listens just to fully dissect everything that's happening.
Bump |
| 4.0 excellent | deeplydisturbd | May 13th 18 |
still processing it but this is a pretty rich/densely layered record with great guitar tones
Bump |
| 4.0 excellent | lurxy | April 13th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | doofy | January 8th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | kabster | July 27th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Rick64 | March 8th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Timmy | January 26th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | snakesc | June 28th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | ori0 | February 11th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | arf | December 29th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Zakusz | November 23rd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | huskr96 | November 14th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tranqyl | November 12th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | KingZal | November 10th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | September 1st 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Lucman | July 30th 21 |
| 3.0 good | mzeet | June 1st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | March 22nd 21 |
| 4.5 superb | RobiM | February 3rd 21 |
| 2.5 average | tancrni | January 2nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | December 27th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Emo | August 24th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | opie | December 31st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | RogueTen | December 20th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | pjmoose | November 29th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Turns13 | November 1st 19 |
| 3.5 great | Moge | September 11th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Teo | September 8th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mathias STAFF | September 8th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | magicuba | September 3rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Flomink | August 27th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Juca89 | August 18th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | josh | July 1st 19 |
| 4.5 superb | ian b | June 15th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | alamo | March 18th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | JedH | March 14th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | daxsic | January 25th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | January 21st 19 |
| 2.5 average | Diogo13 | January 20th 19 |
| 3.0 good | jmh886 | January 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | gschwen | January 16th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Trundle | January 14th 19 |
| 3.5 great | zundza | January 3rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | JJKeys | December 26th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | HugoG | December 17th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | December 14th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh F. | November 28th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dylan620 | November 27th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jrpuri2 | October 2nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sharenge | September 16th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cerbyrus | September 1st 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Gert45 | August 31st 18 |
| 3.5 great | rufous | August 24th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Failure | August 24th 18 |
| 2.5 average | nolanzz | August 20th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | jsaf7 | August 5th 18 |
| 3.0 good | GoAway | August 2nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ian b. | July 30th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rowdy | July 10th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. STAFF | June 29th 18 |
| 3.5 great | CGayda | June 25th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | P0laris | June 20th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Corney | June 14th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | TwigTW | June 8th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | gilly | June 7th 18 |
| 3.5 great | ACVPV | June 2nd 18 |
| 4.5 superb | anat CONTRIBUTOR | June 1st 18 |
| 3.5 great | Feels | May 29th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | JMD | May 29th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | wg98 | May 27th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | gnimas | May 24th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hawks | May 23rd 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Piglet | May 21st 18 |
| 3.0 good | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | May 15th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | greg84 EMERITUS | May 14th 18 |
| |
Give Your Opinion on A Laughing Death in Meatspace
|
