easycure

Unforgivable initial inaccuracy... this is NOT the first album after Barrett. Moreover, it sounds too much like a review you would find on this site about Dream Theater... refined descriptions that are self-serving and no criticism at all. If this is your first review, you are forgiven; all the more, take this criticism in a constructive way :)

Furthermore, he is still right to say that there is no minimum level of critical spirit: almost all reviews on dt are useless elegiac descriptions, ecstatic pseudoreligious fluff devoid of any real musical criticism, whether negative or positive...

Indeed, the notion that one must necessarily play an instrument to criticize the DTs, as if listening were the same as playing, is one of those bullshit arguments that fully supports Nashira's point: there seems to be a sort of cult-like atmosphere surrounding this group... I know it well, as I have reviewed them not exactly in idolizing terms.

Well, as Mr. Sfasciacarrozze rightly points out, I certainly couldn't agree with the content, but your enthusiasm, for all its excess, is genuinely infectious, spontaneous, you know.

Thank you ; ) ...anyway, if you keep getting to know them, you'll realize that you would want to have all their albums. For quality and variety.

Indeed, suspended in a twilight atmosphere, I’m not a cover band of Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin, the aesthetic of Soundgarden is a child of the '80s and it's palpable... their psychedelia is furious and aseptic, monumental yet intimate, dark and nihilistic... absolutely great and an amazing album... Yamamoto's compositions, by the way, are remarkable.

I didn't like it... it doesn't seem to me like you truly grasp the spirit of the band... aside from indisputable opinions, there are views that really don't connect at all. This regardless of the obvious mediocrity of the album.

Thank you. But you gave a different speech in your first post, and now you’re changing course. In your first post, you criticized the fact that I didn’t consider the beauty of a work… I pointed out to you how that is exactly what all approximately 24,000 comments here, in addition to the review, are talking about in one way or another. In that, your argument is completely outdated. That there are different parameters for evaluating the beauty of a work is obvious, and I definitely acknowledge that as true, so it's not outdated. I didn’t dwell on the Mona Lisa because you are really digging your own grave here… : ) it’s one of those works of art where expressiveness is everything, not technique… but if everyone has been racking their brains for centuries trying to understand what it truly expresses? ..it’s a painting that is cryptic in its own way, mysterious, and it draws its expressive power from that.. in short, a less fitting example.. bye.

Matteo, with all due respect, you’re giving a speech that has neither head nor tail. Thank you, the fundamental concept is beauty, a bit like saying hot water, but beauty must have criteria for judgment, right? Otherwise, very simply, anything can be beautiful depending on the individual ear of each listener, which is fine… but that effectively nullifies the very concept of a review for which, until proven otherwise, this site and these words exist. :) ... And everything I consider parameters for judging a record (i.e. expressiveness, etc.) are obviously parameters for evaluating the beauty of a work. What else? Really, you’ve taken on a rather outdated point of view. Bye.

the oriental riff, just to stay on theme, is completely senseless.. there could have been any other formal device instead of that riff since it is purely self-serving... it’s nothing, it expresses nothing, it’s just one of the many artifices so the fans scream "yeah, they can do that too".. their atmosphere is superficial, their sound is outdated, their artistic intentions are non-existent, their coarseness, their presumption, their real creative inability is tragically enormous. with this, I will shoot, but certainly not blank, as much as this may annoy you, let’s see if you will do the same.. ;)