Average Rating: 3.25 Rating Variance: 1.01 Objectivity Score: 91% (Very Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicEvgeni Koroliov Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge4.5 superbDon Lennon ManiacLovely music. What Lennon lacks as a composer he certainly makes up for as an arranger, lots of really nice use of pianos, synth strings, or multiple guitars to reinforce and add to the main melody and harmonic progressions of the songs. The influence of funk and dance music, like the use of syncopation and eliding strong beats is also really effective as well. Also, Lennon is a great vocalist here- certainly much better than he was in the Umpteens, he has good control over his voice, and great presence. These songs are all also great on a structural level- they last almost EXACTLY as long as they need to, and there's a lot of complete musical development and satisfying resolutions even in the pieces hovering around a minute. Maybe they could've been more refined and tweaked slightly, but they still sound so good that it's hard for me to care. Certainly, Lennon is one of the most underrated songwriters of this century, his simply sincere and wittily innocent sense of composition and writing is a fresh breath in the age of apathetic indie where he came from. A shame this guy only got popular in Sweden.4.0 excellentInk (US) Reagent Specs3.5 greatDeath Comet Crew This Is RiphopOrnette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation3.0 goodOrnette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to ComeStiff Legged Sheep Stiff Legged Sheepgud hardcore, very dynamic with a lot of start-stop rhythms and influence of jazz rhythmically (lots of syncopations, especially during the transition of the sections) and on the phrasing (like the guitar in B section of the seventh track for instance), certainly interesting to hear a more traditional style of hardcore with this artiness, but unfortunately its a bit too short with not much to make up for it outside of the dynamics, while the structures and musical ideas are slightly more complex than average hardcore it still falls into that pitfall of being a bit too same-y musically, especially since most of it has pretty basic typical hardcore playing and backbeats and da-da-da-da-da-da, just with some more dynamic structures as opposed to fast one minute songs. but in spite of thatit still is quite good, definitely recommended if only for the novelty of it being an early "progressive hardcore" ep.r2.0 poorChat Pile God's Countrystarts off actually pretty decently, some nice phrasing and interesting chording used in the first few songs, with appealing enough rhythms and backbeats that i can look past the somewhat lame vocals, but then it turns into really repetitive generic sludgy noise rock, and the already subpar vocals become even worse since the accompanying music is so boring. the worst offender wrt the repetition is the last track, where it repeats that same crescendo trick over and over again for way too long. such intense/heavy music isn't really interesting if theres no variation (besides some crescendos here and there) or interesting backbeats, phrasing, tempo changes, chording, etc to begin with, cuz heaviness is a RELATIVE thing, and when you just do that same base heaviness over and over again it'll get boring very quickly. also even tho they do fit aesthetically the whole mark e. smith-esque almost spoken delivery and screaming is thoroughly tiring, he doesn't really have any interesting cadence or timbre whatsoever, id honestly just prefer some regular harsh vocals or something over what he's doing here. unfortunately comes closer to swans than jesus lizard or fear factory in quality. not recommendedrKorn Life Is PeachyNirvana Nevermind
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