Angela_H

Shockingly awful that it makes THRAK sound like Red. Pretty much nothing redeeming on this album.

ProzaKc Blues and The World's My Oyster Soup are songs I prefer to not hear again.

Despite having a number of decent songs, THRAK is the start of their worst and the most out of touch era of the band for me, as this will rather range from boring to borderline terrible on a number of songs. It's hard to really talk about this record since the majority gives me nothing other than boring me, other than Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream being one of the most unintentionally hilarious songs in their discography.

Definitely an improvement over the previous album as the first three songs are great and shows the potential that Beat could've had. However nearly the whole album afterwards doesn't pick back up and it comes together as a frustrating album as it could be another good album but songs like Industry and No Warning are clearly meant for live performances as they are much better in live context.

Larks Tongues in Aspic Pt 3 however is a great continuation of the previous parts and comes together ... read more

A nosedive in quality after the strong record before, Beat always felt like a D-tier Discipline with much weaker songwriting and musicianship that makes the whole record a shore to sit through. Neurotica however feels like the same sound that Black Midi would later pick up on decades later and Requiem is a surprising closer that wraps the record up nicely.