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Gene Gol-Jonsson
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Last Active 01-05-23 6:04 pm
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Gene - the rater of either 3.0 or 4.0,

Vreid I Krig
Vreid are certainly holding a place in history, but their music now sounds corny and oh so bland.
2.0
04.26.24
St. Vincent All Born Screaming
St. Vincent brings back the riffs, dammit! I just wish she did so more explicitly than this. 'All Born Screaming' moves in a direction not dissimilar to the vintage rhythm-bending of 'Daddy's Home', but sits in the style slightly more comfortably and with greater, less put-on swagger. Where 'Daddy's Home' was a fun and inventive but somewhat all over the place, this new one feels more focused and dead set on its aesthetic, sounding the most bold and confident a St. Vincent album has sounded in years. If, however, one must find any fault in it, it is the somewhat undercooked song-writing. So many songs here have all the slick presentation of c
3.5
04.26.24
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini
Definitely the album where if you enjoyed Enslaved work before, you will fall in love. But if you were in general dismissal of their stuff or have felt mostly indifferent, like myself, you will at least come away thinking this was their best work yet. For at least one album, maybe by accident, Enslaved's generally lacklustre and rudimentary oeuvre just clicks right and keeps clicking throughout the runtime. I suppose one in a few dozen albums was bound to hit a home run with the formula.
3.5
04.26.24
A Wilhelm Scream Lose Your Delusion
AWS return to little buzz with a seldom buzzing album that only occasionally bursts into their trademark heavy thrashy instrumentation and biting lyrics. Instead, most of the time the band spends mistaking meandering pop-punk for mature writing.
2.5
04.26.24
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide
Clunky pop-punk, but make it thrash. Wilhelm Scream get the benefit of being one of the early fusions of those genres and also one of the successful ones at that. Genuinely fun album, even if they run quite thin on song-writing chops by the end.
3.5
04.26.24
Gesaffelstein GAMMA
Oh what a mess you've made here, 'stein. A trudged mess with little rhyme or reason, but every ridiculous twist is justified by just how stupid infectious this damn thing is. Darkwave house music has no right being this fresh and fun in this day and age.
4.0
04.25.24
Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers
The second installment in Big Brave's natural album series is a skeletal avant-garde acoustic record with noisy sections that like to interrupt the monotony with their sudden bursts of excitement. I ain't really feeling this one quite so much, but I appreciate the band so confidently and boldly attempting to reach for more experimental and bizarre aims.
3.0
04.25.24

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  • Hawks Ok u need to give me a rec on my folk list because ur recs on my skramz and ambient lists are both KILLER.
    April 6 02:47 AM
  • SteakByrnes Yes! lol but ya that song is def like the dark horse candidate for my favorite on the album, I think they do an amazing job of building it up to a huge climax where Roland is belting the FIND OUTTT part
    April 4 02:47 PM
  • SteakByrnes I saw your sound off for big chair and I gotta say, less Working Hour is a very offensive crime that will put you in prison for years to come!
    April 4 02:28 PM
  • DadKungFu All sauce no meat perhaps on repeated listens but man the prod is mint
    April 1 12:33 PM
  • DadKungFu I might be in love with the new Gesaffelstein and you might be too
    March 31 10:19 PM

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