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Member Since: Nov 08, 2006
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Rated 327 releases, average: 3.94
Location: London
Profile: Rock hard, rock heavy, rock animal.
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Light - Turning - 30-Aug-07 09:52 AM
Flying Saucer Attack are thanked on the sleeve of this release. Apt, as FSA are the best reference point for this LP, as Light use the same FX drenched guitar strums.
Light could be a solo act as the sound is minimal, yet the layers of echo, reverb and gentle distortion make a more expansive sound. Whereas FSA bathed acoustic songs in fuzz, Light don't seem to have any songs as such. Instead focussing on tone and slowly shifting chords achieving a drift like effect. It's as if you're listening to them without listening.
This is not a record of shattering originality, yet for any fan of the Bristol post-rock scene it is instantly intoxicating.
Obituary - Cause Of Death - 14-Aug-07 02:42 PM
Cause Of Death was a huge musical advancement on Obituary's debut Slowly We Rot. Musically it was more sophisticated with cleverly paced songs shifting from heavy, doom crawls, to rapid thrash-outs. Obituary also attempted to create a cohesive album by overlaying atmospheric soundscapes over the end and start of songs.
However, the high point of the album is James Murphy's outstanding lead work. Murphy sets the tone on Infected, the album's opening track, which begins with an incredible solo. His playing throughout is riven with emotion, feeling and thought. It gives the album a depth missing from many other death metal LPs.
The production does date the record, with the bass sounding rather flat. However, that is the only criticism of a key record by one of the genre's key bands.
Trumans Water - Spasm Smash XXX0X0X Ox And Ass - 01-Jul-07 05:20 PM
Trumans Water's indisputable masterpiece takes the band's patented angular riffs and counter-intuitive time changes to their ultimate extreme.
Shorn of all clutter, their songs are continuous series of crescendos and climaxes, as tension inducing riffs are followed by screaming thrash out.
The record seems infused with chaos as guitars career through songs, untethered from each other concerned only with squeezing in another riff or hook.
Such is the relentless savagery, it takes an impressive stamina to listen to the whole album's 77 minutes in one sitting. However, Trumans Water have never sounded so focused, either before or since.
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse - 09-Mar-07 09:32 AM
Sonic Nurse is Sonic Youth sounding like Sonic Youth. Off kilter poppy guitar hooks, jam session grooves, feedback wash, with Kim doing her strangulated punk kitten voice. Think Murray Street, mixed up with bits of A Thousand Leaves, Goo and Dirty.
As the ‘youth’ have got middle-aged, their songs have increasingly become mid-paced. You no longer get that urgent riffing you got on Sister or Daydream Nation. Listening to this album is like an aimless stroll on a summer’s day with a warm breeze gently swirling your clothes.
Not their best. Not their worst. It’s somewhere in between.
Third Eye Foundation, The* - Universal Cooler - 02-Mar-07 08:38 PM
Skittery drum'n'bass beats jitter nervily over a John Barry-style string sample. A snatch of a hip-hop vocal is looped creating a hypnotic effect. The strings have a dramatic sweep, but the drums sound like someone's playing empty yoghurt pots.
On the other side there are more John Barry strings - a Thunderball sample? - and no beats this time. A few notes of soft guitar/harp/something, and a breath of oboe adds menace to the skeletal arrangement.
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