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John, you intimidate me.

I need to get a grip on my parentheses...

Another sumptuous record, among the cosmic masterpieces (for me, but also for others like Irrlicht, Zeit, in the garden pharaohs), this is the album...hard to define...more menacing. The other albums at some point "explode," this one is less tragic and more sinister, unsettling. And there you go with mental gymnastics. Small digression: I recently saw some videos of Schulze and Tangerine Dream, they have equipment that looks like it's straight out of a science fiction movie; rather than playing, it seems like they're piloting a spaceship. Ah, I didn’t particularly appreciate the review; I didn't understand the connection to Dali and Ernst. Maybe because of the covers?

Extraordinary, Ascension is frightening and the title track is unattainable. Huge Glenn Branca. If you like the "genre" of extreme-noise-psychedelic guitar, among the essential works, there are those by some more or less (but I lean toward the more) aware offspring of Branca. Overlooking the obvious Sonic Youth (who are also the most "calm"), I would mention Roy Montgomery, Bardo Pond, Acid Mother Temple (thank you Mùn). Of the latter, whom I still know little about, the track "Soleil de Crystal et Lunè d'argent" from the album Universe zen struck me as extraordinary, and "Hash Jar tempo" (Bardo Pond + Roy Montgomery basically) from the album Well Oiled, a frightening album from start to finish, track 4 is insane. These two tracks can compete with Ascension.

Now I read Josi's comment, and it's exactly what I wanted to say: how can you define a great artist as someone who plays around with a melody? Even I whistle beautiful tunes in the shower. But if I don't find the real musician who arranges them (and I haven't even said artist yet), I'm not going anywhere. Then, the fact that there may be references, similarities to Cohen or Young doesn’t seem impossible to me, but if they exist, I believe they are 99% due to the arranger and the producer, certainly not to Robbie Williams. The moral of this lengthy statement is, even after rereading, that this is a clever review, well-written (I initially gave it a 5), but as Logic defined it, it is a scoop review. I'm not judging tastes, and for you this album and the last one by Oasis may very well be much better than Grace, but when you claim that Robbie is a great artist because he has a nice presence and has hummed a few catchy tunes to a desperate arranger, one has to say that the emperor has no clothes, and it's just another way to make a scoop. In short, even in Novella 2000, the syntax is correct, but that doesn't mean it's a good magazine. Similarly, good Italian isn’t enough to make a good review. Bye.

but you didn't answer me :D

Yes, Francis, but what does Williams combine in the record? What merit does he have? Does he write the pieces by himself, arrange them, and play, or does he hire a producer, an arranger, session musicians, and maybe even someone to write the lyrics? I don't see much artistic merit in that, you know, if it were the second option.

one of the best reviewers on debaser. A friend of mine who's a classic lover agrees with what Zigghio says. I need to decide to listen to it.

Ah! The island of the famous! For me, Pappalardo is out.

rating for the album (really good)