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| 3.5 great | Jerrad | August 17th 19 |
After the snore that Woum ended up being, I couldn't have imagined Cloudkicker putting together another record on the same scale of brilliance and emotional potency that was achieved so effortlessly on Beacons, Let Yourself Be Huge, and Subsume. This record not only lives up to the bar set by those releases, but it surpasses them on several points throughout its duration. This record is dripping with shoegaze and space rock from top to bottom, and just listen to the Souvlaki Space Station nod at the end of Xaoc and how it flawlessly fades into Blackwing......oh how I have missed Cloudkicker! The effects and soundscapes are absolutely top-notch, the production couldn't be more perfect for the mix of styles that Ben Sharp manages to blend together, and Unending at least for me, dethrones Beacons for being Cloudkicker's finest display of what has become its trademark blend of polyrhythmic metal, ambience, and epic post-rock crescendos. If you enjoy instrumental metal, this is absolutely essential, it's one of the decade's best releases within the genre, and what a magnificent return to form.
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| 3.5 great | Tephrosis | August 30th 19 |
After a few listens I give this album a 3.5. There are 4 killer songs 2 interludes and intro. But this guy is doing what he does best, in his own style. Compared to Woum, this is a big step forward again!
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| 2.0 poor | ramon. | August 21st 19 |
so much of this record feels like demo work for subsume and beacons. night, arlp 36, and wall felt awkward as interludes and didn't do anything interludes on previous albums have done better. xaoc has a great sense of momentum in the first third but every part of the song feels copied from elsewhere. better versions of every element of blackwing exist on subsume, and the song awkwardly hobbles to a close. this leaves yhwh and void, the first being a decently boring build into nothing and the second being possibly the only song on the record that houses any new ideas relative to Ben's discography with a uniquely spooky middle section. the overall melodic tone and atmosphere of the album felt inconsistent enough to prevent this from being as good a background listen as something like lybh, while simultaneously not being rapturing on a moment-to-moment basis like aforementioned records. woum deserves every lick of criticism it has earned but fuck me at least that release had a sense of identity and experimentation. couldn't help but think of that old youtube comment trend "watchmojo are running out of ideas" listening to this.
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| 3.1 good | Erwann S. STAFF | August 26th 19 |
Same style as Subsume and Beacons, but not as much substance. The interludes do not add that much variety to the record, and the hard tunes are not banging as they could. An acceptable Ben Sharp output.
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| 3.5 great | kenotik | August 21st 19 |
cloudkicker returns to form with a heavily layered, concise, evocative genre blend of
shoegaze, 'djent', post-rock, ambient, and prog metal. this is cloudkicker doing what we
know he does best - subsuming all of his previous work while incorporating something
fresh, likely whatever art has inspired him since his previous release, and what he has
learned on the production side of things. ben sharp masters cloudkicker with 'unending'
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| 4.5 superb | Klekticist | August 21st 19 |
A listen-on-repeat album. Void is so good.
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| 3.0 good | Nine | August 16th 19 |
What a jump from Woum. He's truly mastered his craft on this record. Edit: Damn, what was past me on?
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| 3.5 great | MO | August 16th 19 |
a solid release through and through.
this would've benefited greatly from slightly longer track lengths to really flesh things out more
but it's still great regardless
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| 3.5 great | Halez | March 13th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | March 22nd 21 |
| 2.5 average | Vaka | January 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | voodman | September 15th 20 |
| 3.5 great | hbr00 | September 8th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Leland | September 8th 20 |
| 3.0 good | SuzyC | September 6th 20 |
| 2.5 average | mursu | June 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | UberOi | May 19th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | digs795 | January 2nd 20 |
| 2.0 poor | hadriel | September 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Adam | September 4th 19 |
| 2.0 poor | Mila91 | August 29th 19 |
| 3.5 great | em17ah | August 28th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Nishe | August 27th 19 |
| 3.0 good | TanMan | August 27th 19 |
| 2.5 average | kalli15 | August 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Keira | August 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | alwilk | August 25th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Rausku | August 23rd 19 |
| 3.0 good | Tom | August 23rd 19 |
| 4.5 superb | NoXoR | August 22nd 19 |
| 3.0 good | Risodo | August 22nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | acew787 | August 22nd 19 |
| 3.0 good | trilo | August 21st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thor | August 21st 19 |
| 3.0 good | Dmax28 | August 20th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bulgaro | August 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | k1ngy6 | August 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tibi | August 19th 19 |
| 3.5 great | itchy | August 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | YakNips | August 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Drpibb | August 17th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | August 16th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | mifzal | August 16th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Scoot | August 16th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | jmh886 | August 15th 19 |
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