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Last Active 11-30-09 8:07 am
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Chat Pile Who Loves the Sun
More of what we've come to expect from Chat Pile, and the consistency is admirable, but I for one am pining for a little more stretching insofar as production and sonic palette. I also frankly miss some of the playfulness and storytelling on display from "God's Country" and "Cool World". And they are seriously held back by the gauzy DIY-production aesthetic -- like they should at least experiment with using the electric kit samples as triggers for better samples or something. Some of these songs would benefit massively from some genuinely huge sounding guitars and better-layered vocal doubling... this gets pretty muddy.		3.5
09.10.26
Elder (USA-MA) Through Zero
3.5
06.01.26
American Football American Football (LP4)
3.0
05.10.26
Failure Location Lost
Both Wild Type Droid, now, this, feel a bit like Failure is overthinking things. Relatively bereft of hooks, energy, riffs. Songs are structurally all over the place. Ken's vocal melodies are rather droll and unmemorable, and he sounds tired. Some of the production is cool but that's not enough on its own. The arpeggiated guitar chords get tiresome. It feels like the band is leaning rather hard towards Radiohead-esque esoterica but that was never really their strongsuit, in my mind. The album's not bad or anything but the songs fail to meet their potential and cool sections are mired by boring sections within the same song. It's all just rath		3.0
04.25.26
Interpol Interpol
4.5
04.16.26
Tigers Jaw Lost on You
3.0
04.15.26
Chat Pile God's Country
4.0
11.08.25

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