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no easycure, many of those records (pere ubu slint tortoise) I love a lot too. And then I know the futurist manifesto by heart, it’s one of my favorite artistic movements XD It’s probably not your case, but it happens a thousand times that in the dt reviews, there are those who throw out the names of the most important avant-garde (in the etymological sense) and trash the five show-offs from Boston. It’s not true that those who listen to dt don’t understand a damn thing about music (but even if it were?) and quite often they serve as a "bridge" to the listening of much more demanding records.

"I repeat myself when I'm under stress" great! For the review, I would say "I like it!"

I had kind of abandoned them after the release of Fear of a Blank Planet, and I also missed Nil Recurring, which I've heard is a good album. From what you say, it sounds very interesting; I'll definitely give it a listen. Great review!

@XBEND: I understand what you meant, but I hope you were under the influence when you said that thing about the wall..

Perhaps the problem is that metal, in general, has become highly commercialized, due to the increased demand for that kind of music from young people. So many bands have emerged from the basements, following the market without any artistic ambition and churn out stereotyped albums (basically what metal is supposed to sound like in the pop era). Rock is dead, or almost, while heavy rock and metal still have a strong appeal among the very young, which explains why there is so much crap around. Then if you take bands like Atreyu (for the new alternative/emo), Rhapsody (for the Tolkien-obsessed losers), Nightwish (for the losers in general, into Tim Burton and role-playing games), and Dragonforce (and here we find all the fans of over-the-top soloing), then it can be loudly said that metal is a genre that desperately needs Viagra...

between "the listen;" and "it" there should be the word "emotion": at the end of the penultimate line

Well, I could tell you that the Europeans move me more than King Crimson, and the argument would no longer hold water... In terms of career and number of masterpieces, the Crimson King is probably unbeatable and unmatched. Then, an "Islands" might not give you any emotion, but at a conceptual and artistic level, it is practically unparalleled. As for Genesis, it is certainly true that they are one of the most easily digestible prog bands, and so a greater ease of assimilation can also be paralleled with a greater internalization by the listener; and what follows is a direct consequence of that, but it has nothing to do with artistic value. Then again, this argument could be disputed on several points, but that's how I see it.

I frankly don't see any crude fanaticism in the Sklemby poster; it always seems that if you like this album, you're some ignorant who gets off with tapping or odd time signatures shoved in your face by any band of wankers and wankers of the instrument. Enough already. They may not be innovators, they may be derivative, but this is a good album just like the latest from Einstürzende Neubauten, which has nothing innovative about it at all. By the way, I know a few albums that reference Easy Cure, and I can say that the Scaruffi-esque addendum of "innovation = quality" is, in my opinion, often a load of crap.

VDGG and King Crimson are on a nice step above... but Firth of Fifth is truly beautiful.

the suite is stunning, the rest of the album is on a decent level.. too bad for the last one, because here they were still a respectable band.. I give it 3.5 rounded off.