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Rating: I bought this album without knowing what I was getting into... I had never listened to the band before (nor especially ANYTHING LIKE IT!), I purchased it solely driven by the reputation it had.
As soon as the first track started playing, my entire normal perception of "music" was obliterated. I was faced with something finally different: it seemed like a group of "instrument virtuosos," a true progressive band, was trying to bring "chaos into music," but a NON-RANDOM chaos, super technical, with unpredictable time changes, interwoven guitar riffs that distort in an incessant crescendo of schizophrenia and creativity... with the addition of a rhythm section that would send chills even to the most technical bands, with techno-death accents "à la Meshuggah."
The album is not excessively long, lasting about half an hour (excluding the hidden track), but in my opinion perfectly so, for with such a challenging musical proposition, it was better not to overdo it: thus, the choice to focus more on quality rather than quantity!
As for the songs, I definitely recommend the title track "Calculating Infinity", an instrumental with a techno-funk-noise beginning, "43% Burnt", the frantic grind-noise of "Clip The Apex... Accept Instruction" and "4th Grade Dropout" with an interlude almost foretelling the style that Converge would adopt in Jane Doe.
The flaw in my opinion might be the vocals, which never quite convinced me, but it can easily be overlooked while letting yourself be carried away by the total sensory and psychological annihilation that this band manages to induce.
There are also almost "industrial" moments, associated with certain guitar sounds or the mechanical nature of some riffs that almost seem to go into a loop, as if the record were constantly skipping. Indeed, don’t expect a consistent 4/4 throughout the album; it’s a continuous alternation of syncopated, odd rhythms, difficult to assimilate.
What else to say... I recommend this album to anyone in search of schizophrenia in music!!!
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Sugar Coated Sour (02:24)
what rounding out breaks
the silent barrier
waiting and waiting
can i pick your modest waste
i expect no more than
DID I STUTTER
DID I STUTTER
DID I STUTTER
simple regret
yeah, take a bow
you deserved
yeah, eat shit
you earned it
life would be so much better
if you did not exist
and god bless you fucking queen
what pawns
we have become
in this bland
little play:
sugar.coated,sour.
02 43% Burnt (04:31)
i smell that whore
bring me back
bring me a brick
take my bottle
and break it
pour it all out
i pushed you too far
self absorb that pity
i want to knock you off your horse
i just feel it
everything's fine
spit on yourself
you're so beautiful
crack and chip off
like the sun won't
shine
down
take your medicine like a champ
while that sting can last a million years
self absorb that utopia
so bad
i just feel it
03 Jim Fear (02:22)
jim fear has done it again
alfresco slapsticked
foam mouth sunshine
slash her and bash her porno freak
throw another crap cake on the stove, jimmy
the flaming hermit
the lonely fool
a staged and natural bliss
so flip the page
and lock your door
or have you finished
07 Clip the Apex... Accept Instruction (03:29)
that lashed right on the head of the nail
a thousand years
it was the last moment
figured it out
how the honey burns
figured it out
stick on me so sweet
decoy this crap
hide this broken boy
decoy your crap
fuck you cause i've rotted
i've broken down
i'm that kid
so naive
bet it all
i
just lost
the whole thing
just lost
it all
sing us plenty
cover me baby
red for money
proves it's phony
red for money
proves it's phony
so step right up
you won that prize
i've rotted
i lost the house
i bet it all
i've lost the whole thing
bet the whole thing
09 4th Grade Dropout (03:35)
the chain linked fence
surrounds the feeble child
gag your mouth
to hear sweet melodies
lifted your hand to swing
to swing the chair
pounding my brain
love her and tell her
fuck her and smell her
don't fall for it
don't fall for me
fall child
just one more thing
kiss my lips and make me fly
i told you not to fall for it
kiss my lip and make me fly!
11 Variations on a Cocktail Dress (07:57)
fill holes
dig holes
forever
gazing at backdoors
for once in a life
it's coming in
inspired by our attraction
what we smell
bitter sweet pleasure
one phone call
one fine line of prison
the walk
the smell
the spoiled
backdoor honey
please come home
such a shame to throw away
don't you fucking spill it
avoid that the best feeling possible
(yes we do obsess)
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