Purpulan

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Stefano Moro Cieli Neri (Bluvertigo Videoclip)

11 aug 09

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Well, in fact, a lot of time has passed, but I remember that it was them who hinted at it in one of those TV shows where musicians selected music videos at their discretion, 9 or 10 years ago...

Grizzly Bear Veckatimest

10 aug 09

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"Sparkling and crackling" wasn't referring to the guitar playing, but to the "contagious" mood of the songs, which gradually fades towards the center of the album, only to come back alive at the end. This is something that, by the way, also connects (in my opinion) to the "twin" album by Akron/Family ("Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free"). More kitschy, but in its own way related to this approach, I also find "Rewild" by Amazing Baby. So, quite a few "freak-pop" releases this spring.

Grizzly Bear Veckatimest

9 aug 09

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@ Fredrick, here are some clarifications on my comment: "Potential H bomb" is a line from a (very) famous single by the Sex Pistols, but they have little to do with it. Anyway, the H-bomb is based on the principle of "fission-fusion-fission" nuclear reactions, and so is this "Veckatimest": an explosive and crackling start that gets bogged down in the middle with a series of semi-acoustic ballads that melt your balls, but it picks back up to be sharp in conclusion (another poorly predicted thing: I expected this review to trigger a chain reaction in the comments, but that didn’t happen). Finally, since you’ve been frugal in your review, I thought it would be good and right to add a bit of H, which never hurts.

Stefano Moro Cieli Neri (Bluvertigo Videoclip)

9 aug 09

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I'm not fully sure about this (and I don't feel like digging around), but if I remember correctly, even the stop-motion clip wasn't conceived/born from them or the director in question; they would have simply inserted the playback scenes, the band's choreography, and the related transitions into an existing autonomous work for which they had optioned the broadcasting rights for a ridiculous amount.

Grizzly Bear Veckatimest

8 aug 09

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AHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaH! A potential "H bomb"!

Swans Filth

3 aug 09

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Mmmm, well, it depends. Of their three most significant albums, I don't really care for "White Light from the Mouth of Infinity" and the subsequent divergences either. The pairing that follows "Filth": "Cop" and (the EP later named "Young God") is impeccable, but even though "Children of God" is already less directly violent, it remains untouchable (P.S.: why the cover of the "Deluxe Edition"?!).

Shiro Sagisu Neon Genesis Evangelion I

2 aug 09

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Back in the day, I would pick an album with a theme to blast in my headphones before every exam. This one was on full repeat for "Psychology of Art." It fit perfectly with Freud, or it suited me to a tee... Epic and Oedipal.

Cave In Planets Of Old

31 jul 09

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Ah, it's an EP, too much excitement after seeing them on the home page ; )

Cave In Planets Of Old

31 jul 09

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Oh, I read that they started playing together again a few months ago... I didn't think they would release a new album so soon. A must-listen, thank you.

Dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion

29 jul 09

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Michoo... Look, with "El Cielo" they already drifted far from the sounds of "Leitmotif," and now they're almost another band (even though the members remain the same). Regarding the album in question: it seems they have returned to a concept, trying to give thematic continuity to the tracks, but without the spark of the past and they tend to settle into a rather repetitive style. The fact that almost all the songs end up blending into one another with instrumentals that (i.m.o.) strongly evoke the "weird" trajectories of early Akron/Family doesn’t help them at all. I hope to be proven wrong and that the album grows on me (listened to it half a dozen times and set aside for more than a month), but for now, it’s more disappointing than "C.W.A."!