Fraxinus

DeRank ™: -0,22

DeAge™ : 6694 days • Here since 11 february 2008

Kyuss ...And The Circus Leaves Town

17 feb 08

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Fascinating and terribly scorching. I'm not entirely fond of the very succinct and dry rendering of some tracks... but come on, it’s a Kyuss album, and it can evoke emotions like nothing else. I was lucky enough to see them live during the Sky Valley tour... I remember that night as if it were yesterday...

Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley

17 feb 08

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The Kyuss, after the glory of Blues for the Red Sun, were able to sign another wonderful work. Essential and absolute.

Alice in Chains Jar Of Flies

17 feb 08

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Exciting, refined, and marked by skillfully balanced light and shadow.

Shelter Attaining The Supreme

16 feb 08

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I don't have a particular fondness for the good Shelters... however, I admit that labeling those who make "non-aligned" spiritual choices as "little American boys filled with integralist puritanism" seems really biased and quite excessive.

Six Minute War Madness Full Fathom Six

16 feb 08

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Interesting without a doubt, but I tend to prefer the earlier "Il Vuoto Elettrico": to my ears, IVE seems more concrete and sensible... although less experimental.

Sunny Day Real Estate Diary

16 feb 08

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Moody, visceral, emotional... I don't want to sound repetitive, but these are three perfect adjectives for the album in question. "Diary" knows how to dive into the depths with twilight sounds, bittersweet, melancholic... and terribly intense. I listen to it VERY rarely precisely because I am rarely willing to be "eviscerated" so much by an album...

Corrosion Of Conformity Deliverance

16 feb 08

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Deliverance is truly a remarkable record! The stoner, blues, hard rock, and southern rock matrices have been well absorbed and blended into its grooves. The hardcore of Animosity feels like a distant memory, but then again, sincere renewal is often food for creativity.

Girls Against Boys Cruise Yourself

16 feb 08

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Interesting, sure, but this Cruise Yourself has never really struck a chord with me. All in all, I think I'll give it another chance, sooner or later.

Sun Dial Other Way Out

16 feb 08

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Unfortunately, I don't have this... but the name "Sundial" always makes me tingle, as the thought automatically goes to that superb "Acid Yantra," a bright and sunny episode of their career.

Helmet Betty

16 feb 08

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A record... honest. Without any absurd pretensions, rather direct, compact, well-assembled, and engaging. I would classify the genre as a "compromised" noise, which doesn't shy away from melodic bursts and clean, "sung" vocal lines. Of course, it can't be compared to Strap it On in many aspects, but this Betty has the quality of being enjoyable, and re-enjoyable, and re-enjoyable... entertaining us without ever overdoing it.