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I can't believe I put off listening to Relationship of Command for so long. Just the album cover alone should've drawn me in like a siren's song, let alone the acclaim this album has been receiving for years. What got me to finally give this record a chance was, strangely enough, old family photos. Last night, while I was cleaning up the table after dinner, an old photo leaning against a vase caught my eye. I don't know why, I'd seen it a million times before, but ... read more

The highs on Around The Fur are up there with the best metal songs of all time, but the gap between the two best songs here and the rest of the album is almost comical. The opener, My Own Summer, is fucking incredible. It's got one of the coolest guitar riffs of all time and Chino's vocals are amazing here, spectacularly balancing ghostliness and horniness when they're quiet, and when they get loud, they're in a shriek very different from most metal of the time without ... read more

I'm gonna get a stupid amount of hate for this, but Kind of Blue is kind of overrated. Maybe that's my fault. I went in expecting something truly enlightening, that would expand my brain with every single note. Instead, I got the chillest 45 minutes of music to ever grace human ears. It almost flows like one song, one that, even without the album or song titles, still invokes whatever the musical equivalent is to a rich blue, tinted slightly green. Kind of Blue is everything music. ... read more

Just from a first listen this is way better than the Miles Davis album I started with, Kind of Blue. That album tended to fade into the background, being objectively perfect, but with not too many individual moments that stuck out to me. I don't mean this in an even remotely negative way, that's Kind of Blue's strength, that it puts the listener in the opposite of a trance, the music acting as a magnifying lens for whatever else you're happening to be doing. On the other ... read more