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| 2.5 average | doofy | July 28th 20 |
Saturnalian Minimalism >
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| 3.5 great | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | July 12th 20 |
Like being sucked into demonic vortex in space, this two hour mammoth is one of the most distressing and out of this world musical experiences I've endured this year. Its main fault is that its gargantuan length prevents repeated full-album listens. I've barely managed to defeat it on my only full run-through, can't say I'll be able to withstand the onslaught of just the utter hell that it is more than that.
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| 2.5 average | davezillaMP3 | July 21st 20 |
while I do enjoy the atmosphere the album had, the album is way too one note to justify its over 2 hour runtime, and the second half does become a real slog to get through.
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| 3.7 great | Erwann S. STAFF | July 14th 20 |
A tribal behemoth. These Brusseleir homies (yay) decided to put all their influences - avant-garde jazz, zeuhl, drone, brutal prog and some metal intensity - into a record that would best be musically described as the cover's sonic equivalent: a surreal, ominous and occult trip to human soul's most abstract parts. So, yeah, it's an effing difficult record to absorb in one tense two-hour listen, it sometimes does get caught up in its own apocalypse, and it loses some steam after a while, but it clearly is one of the most interesting 2020 releases.
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| 2.5 average | BaselineOOO | July 12th 20 |
The album cover and the track lengths give the impression that the music is better than it is.
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| 3.0 good | REANIMATED | April 23rd 22 |
This album carries attention very well until the third act, which meanders aimlessly for far too
long.
Act 1 - 3.5
Act 2 - 4
Act 3 - 2
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| 3.5 great | ExoskeletalJunction | February 24th 22 |
18th February, 2022: Neptunian Maximalism - Eons (avant-garde jazz/zeuhl/drone metal, 2020)
A fascinating genre salad, and one that initially struck me as total gimmickry but has opened
up with subsequent revisiting. It’s primarily a jazz fusion record - mostly instrumental, and
almost all utterly chaotic. But beneath that are incredibly strong lines of drone metal a la
Sunn O))) and manic avant-prog a la Magma. And somehow, this strange mix doesn’t sound like a
total mess. The drone sections are a welcome break from the furious dexterity of the prog and
jazz parts, and the occasional vocals are a welcome break from the incessant instrumental
noodling too. I’m still not sure how I feel about it as a whole, but it’s certainly very
creative, which is something that should be celebrated.
6.4 (3rd listen)
Part of my listening diary from my facebook music blog -
www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction
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| 2.5 average | Haelaeif | May 30th 21 |
on paper, I should love this album. has the kind of shit I usually love.rin execution... man I was asleep by second track, let alone 1.5 hours later.rI want to be suffocated, rendered, drowned in dissonance. not rocked to sleep.
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| 4.0 excellent | Harlz | April 28th 21 |
Impressive music, incredible atmosphere and the sheer scale blows my mind. It is so bloody rhard to listen to all the way through - it does at some stage end up overstaying it's rwelcome. Can't say it is one I'd repeat listen to often, but even just 1 or 2 tracks from rthis does the job with it's incredibly oppressive, tribal, apocalyptic lustre.
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| 4.0 excellent | Tb1114 | August 25th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Oobaloo | November 12th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Lvxfra | October 24th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Prole | August 5th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zakusz | June 28th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Skoop | April 28th 21 |
| 3.0 good | 2ool | February 19th 21 |
| 2.5 average | P0laris | February 5th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | RobiM | February 3rd 21 |
| 3.0 good | jmh886 | January 27th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Runeii | January 20th 21 |
| 1.5 very poor | gschwen | December 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | JS19 | December 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | December 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | arf | December 10th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Raust | October 9th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Whyks2 | October 1st 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Vlexis | September 21st 20 |
| 3.5 great | Arlind | September 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Donchivo | September 14th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Azazzel | September 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Flomink | September 7th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Stagger | September 5th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Akifexx | August 24th 20 |
| 3.5 great | bbm | August 7th 20 |
| 3.5 great | anat CONTRIBUTOR | August 6th 20 |
| 2.5 average | gnimas | July 29th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | alamo | July 22nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Phate72 | July 20th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Kruppe | July 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bobshat | July 13th 20 |
| 3.0 good | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | July 10th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Elynna | July 4th 20 |
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