joe strummer

Total disappointment!

Ah ok, I read that wrong. In my opinion, the level remains high. The first one, in terms of plot, is too similar to the movie. There are no issues with the style.

Indeed...

If he can do that too, everyone will truly be up on their feet.

Hi Nes. I understand that it may not have driven you crazy. I really got lost in the images: as I wrote, Villeneuve made me see things that are shown in a thousand other films with new, almost bewildered eyes. But here they seemed different, deeper, more beautiful or more horrific. The subject is of average quality, but even for that, you can see the hand, or rather the very deep eye of the director. It's not a film that aims to present extremely rich and nuanced characters; that’s not its goal. In short, with a high-level subject, I believe Villeneuve can really shine.

Beautiful Let it happen, but the rest is quite redundant and sentimental..

Beautiful review! I would have loved to see them, but the venue was too far away. Of course, there's no Chuck, but the spirit of his songs lives on, and it's rightful that some of his former companions pay tribute to him. It's a cultural treasure.

The album is beautiful, but I disagree when you say it harks back to the moods of the early records. I mean, Remission and Leviathan were truly two devastating musical demons, hard and pure, without the slightest restraint. This, on the other hand, is a meticulously crafted album designed to please both longtime fans (with remarkable layering and tangled, feverish riffs) while also continuing to broaden its audience with an increasing presence of crystalline melodies, epic choruses polished to a shine, and very few truly badass excursions (like Capillarian Crest, for instance), all the while maintaining song structures that reinforce the simplification process that has been in place since The Hunter. Now, the cleverness of Once More is precisely that it cuts off the many branches (as you say) that characterized the 2011 album in favor of a uniform sound, incredibly powerful but highly digestible, which will energize somewhat less experienced fans. Let’s be clear, I like Once More 'Round the Sun, but it can't be compared to the band's true masterpieces. It's an important album because it finally convincingly formulates a melodic Sludge Metal proposition for the mainstream. But in essence, the song structures do not revisit the progressive ambitions of the 2004-2009 era: the simplicity of the compositions is strategic for accessibility, yet at least the sound returns to being thick, monumental (too easy), boasting overwhelming sounds and rhythms, unlike The Hunter, which streamlined the pieces too much with its compositional ease. A very beautiful album, but I would never place it among the band's "essentials."

Illegible? Damn, are you used to Gadda?

In my opinion, a masterpiece! It makes you reflect from the first to the last minute. It’s a mirror film; to a superficial eye, it seems boring, but to a problematic eye, it opens a Pandora's box. Corrosive.