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Thank you, Larrok, just one thing: by poco sincero (one of the least fitting adjectives among those I used, I acknowledge that) I also mean the result. Then no one denies their genuine passion for playing music, of course!

Well Purpulan, if that's the case, the Seam and the Galaxie are also very difficult to label as Slo core; mine was more of an attitude stew than a genre :-D Infested, let's say that the lack of naturalness is a consequence of their contemplative rock :-) Finnegan, quite the opposite, I've never thought that these guys have positive emotions or joy...

Yes, here I’m talking about the album anyway, which is more than enough... Finnegan I’m referring exclusively to the music, because I believe that a critiquable piece with fantastic lyrics remains a critiquable piece with fantastic lyrics.

I listened to this, Trust and The curtain hits the cast, so I'm not sure what to say about TGD. The fact is that of the three albums I listened to, I noticed a very similar vision. Maybe the one I prefer is Trust, at least for now.

Finnegan, if we were to judge an album by its lyrics, we’d be in trouble... the problem with Low is that a couple of years earlier Down Colorful Hill came out, that’s the whole issue (which is funny because they’ve made their share of slow tunes, like Codeine and Mazzy Star, so I don't understand how I would be prejudicial). So let’s start by saying that I Could Live In Hope sounds a bit like an academic exercise, while Down Colorful Hill comes through the eyes of a child (and therefore much more sincere). Then there’s the whole spiritual meditation thing, the "priests of slowcore," which honestly doesn’t interest me. It's all just fluff to justify an approach that feels a tad too "ambitious." Rather, the cliché might be to call this album a masterpiece simply because it sounds so "austere," "deep," "noble," "metaphysical," and similar chatter.

Yes, because I highly recommend relativism...

Finnegan, have you read the review? Are you sure? Reread the introduction and see what I think about the "mystical breath." Personally, I believe Codeine demonstrate a greater communicative urgency than Low. Jaw-breaking, in fact, they are LOW-core :-D

"And I would like to tell you that I understood your hang-ups about the arrangements." And no, because if you truly understood them, you wouldn't come out with childlike observations like: "then, the negative connotation you give to 'splendid' I’m sorry but it MAKES NO SENSE. This book is splendid = this book is empty, it says nothing interesting, etc...there's something WRONG in this equation! Am I wrong????" — these reflections lead me to think that you have some delays of some sort, or simply that your pride prevents you from giving dignity to my ideas. Because I am not interested in whether you share what I said, I care that you understand it, though. I’ll try one last time: the arrangements of this record serve a purely formal function; they can be aesthetically appealing (or even splendid if you like, BUT SOMETHING THAT IS ONLY FORMALLY SPLENDID IS SOMETHING ESSENTIALLY EMPTY AND USELESS, DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A TITANIC CONCEPT TO ME), but they carry no message worth being defined as such. This doesn’t take away from the fact that they can evoke emotion (how much garbage music has evoked, evokes, and will evoke emotion? A lot), but I also like substance. Substance that is not present here.

At 26 years old, pardon.

Chinaski, are you a non-EU citizen? I see that you don't understand Italian. The arrangements of this album have a communicative function EXACTLY the same as those of Sanremo songs. They rely on mere Italian aesthetic pathos, they reflect on themselves, praise themselves, self-celebrate but ABSOLUTELY say nothing interesting. (In fact, they say absolutely nothing at all). Their purpose is to please themselves. They can be "beautiful" aesthetically, on the surface level, but they are absolutely EMPTY, devoid of musical meaning. Let’s see if you can pretend not to understand even now. At 28, it shouldn’t be hard to grasp such a fundamental concept.