Bartleboom

DeRank : 35,89
DeAge™ : 7610 days • Here since 9 august 2005
Les Big Byrd They Worshipped Cats
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Immediately the cover of the year! Why am I not reading shocked and/or resentful comments and/or silly rants from those who were outraged by the editorial on the Nativity figurines?!? But how is that: for the little hut of San Francesco we dragged in ISIS and satanic verses, and yet for none other than the same son of God who anoints jackets and ties on alien spaceships with just the power of his gaze, we say nothing?! Don't you know that in Kurzmenistan, for certain things, people end up in jail every day?! Mastro Psycho, it’s really a joy to find you on these pages. I sincerely hope that things are going well for you... And I look forward to reading you again and again, even in 2015! Anyway, I'm already going to listen to these this afternoon: see you in a few hours for first impressions! Bye!
Nebula Charged
Nebula Charged
23 dec 14
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For a certain period, Glass was my post-adolescent idol: Hendrixian to the core and with a fashion sense that seemed taken from a failed auction of Studio 54. The last time I saw them live (a long time ago...) he showed up in a purple corduroy suit that cried out for vengeance in the eyes of all the Asians. Nebula were (because I’ve completely lost track of them for a few years) a nice band. They never produced a true masterpiece, but over the years they made some excellent music, and I don’t recall them ever making really bad records. Personally, I appreciated them much more in their more psychedelic episodes (besides the aforementioned and more desert-like To The Center, I particularly remember the EP Heavy Psych, with a more spacey cut), than in their strictly stoner garage ones. Great review. Well done.
The Flight of Sleipnir V
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I’m tuning in at this very moment: interesting stuff. I have to, as always in these cases, get over the hurdle of the voice, but for atmosphere and intensity, it seems like it’s really something great. Very good.
Tweedy Tweedy live @ Depot, Leuven, 15.11.2014
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Here! And merry Christmas, damn it.
Pink Floyd The Endless River
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I read the review a few days ago: I really liked it, but I don’t remember anything that was written, so maybe later I’ll write things that contradict it, but when I read it, it seemed fine, so I’ll still give it a high 5. Honestly, I don’t understand how many can consider it an "ambient" album. Personally, I’ve always thought of ambient as that stuff you can put on while you’re squeezing blackheads or reorganizing your phone bills: a sound carpet that you put on just because otherwise, you hear the neighbor farting. Here, there are definitely rarefied atmospheres and all that, but it's a very performed album, with a lot of production work and layering behind it, which requires attention. I think it's also a good album in terms of composition, but what really doesn’t hold up are the sounds: extremely plastic, pre-packaged, shamelessly recycled from previous albums. With the same scores and a more modern (better: bolder) choice of sounds, it could have turned out to be something much more interesting. The fact that they’re 70 years old and are still trying to experiment is another story.
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Well, this was understood...
Royal Blood Royal Blood
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I heard them on that show that airs in the afternoon on Radio Deejay, with that guy who talks a lot, with the hoarse voice that always sounds like he’s about to cough... Anyway, it’s not like I liked them very much.
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
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"Finally, someone who writes without getting lost in chatter but explains the album and also encourages you to buy it" (a quote for those who have been here for a few years - too many-).
Iceage Plowing Into The Field Of Love
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I’m adding myself to the list of strong supporters of the first one. I just finished listening to it (rather distractedly), and I must say that I don’t really feel like revisiting it. To be completely honest: the feeling is that of children playing dress-up as adults. It seems to me that these sounds don’t fully belong to them, that there’s a sort of “effort” behind trying to create certain atmospheres of “western in an Armani suit.” I hope I feel like giving it another listen.
Luca Lucini Amore, Bugie & Calcetto
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They should have taken away Lucini's right to breathe after that crap of 3 meters above the sky, which, aside from the horrifying story and the dialogues straight out of a diary, was shot with his head up his ass. I didn’t see this.