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| 3.5 great | fantalas | August 2nd 19 |
The non-stop purple-pink force is here finally. It's like TesseracT but actually enjoyable. 8.5/10
4 Bumps | Bump |
| 4.0 excellent | ExoskeletalJunction | October 24th 21 |
11th January 2021: Ihlo - (djent, 2019)
It took me a few listens to get into this, and I think I know why - it opens with its two weakest
songs. The title track in particular isn't a great introduction, and I'd even go as far as to call
it annoying, but as you spend time with the record the rest of it opens up and proves itself to be
quite creative and enjoyable. I'd even go as far as saying it's the best thing to come out of
'djent' since that genre's timely demise in around 2015.
And the reasons for that is that the djenting is quite superficial - the band don't rely on the
chugs or the genre cliches to write their songs, and these songs could all work perfectly well
with any other style of production around them. The star here is undeniably Andy Robison, both for
his vocal performance and his excellent keyboard work. The melodies here, particularly in
"Starseeker" and the closing epic "Coalescence" are nothing short of fantastic, sounding more like
Radiohead than Periphery. He consistently finds ways to find hooks in small twists and turns that
keep the songs in the latter half of the album completely engaging, and the melodic synth lines
add to it with some influence from post-rock and ambient music coming through. As someone who was
never really a fan of the djent sound, this is an album that you can quite easily ignore it and
focus on the songwriting and melodies.
7.1 (4th listen)
Part of my listening diary from my facebook music blog - www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction
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| 2.0 poor | nightbringer (all ratings are 4 or 2) | August 16th 19 |
Some alright hooks here but otherwise a flat rexperience. The djent passages lack any real rfeel or groove, the instrumentation is dull, rand the production does nothing to enliven the rexperience.
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| 3.0 good | T5Cx | December 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Halez | July 24th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | ztetter | December 10th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | progsun | September 23rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wulg | August 12th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Agonba | June 18th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Hyndez | June 13th 19 |
| 3.0 good | RyanW | June 7th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | JJKeys | June 6th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Giak17 | June 1st 19 |
| 4.5 superb | ariich | June 1st 19 |
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