"Come On Petunia" references The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
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Didn't expect to like this this much! One of RYM's favourite industrial metal records for a reason
Dookie and it's completely different but also still dookie
Re-issue of the year!
Like the contrast between the two sets: the latter sounds a lot less wild than the first one, and is twice as short
This whole album should've just been a sound collage of newsreels sound clips, Peter Sotos/Negativland-style - I think that way it'd be far more impactful, far less cheesy/corny (I've just realized both of these are foods) and definitely not hated this much - but no, it had to be another metal album - as if we don't have enough of them already
"Beauuuuuuuuu-tiiiiiiii-fuuuuuull face"
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Phil Elverum realizes these ideas better on the following demos
Usually the sophomore album is the disappointment, but to me this is a hugely pleasant surprise - since I wasn't amazed by the debut at all. This record feels like they took everything great about "You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into" and turned it up to a 100 while simultaneously feeding those elements steroids. This is how post-"Resistance" Muse should sound, or how pre-solo Panic! At the Disco could sound, or how generally Tub Ring can sound, or ... read more
I guess "Fallin'" is the only one that prevents me to score it most highly
Listening to this without breaks is like the evil twin of listening to all the 6 stages of "Everywhere at the End of Time" in one sitting, and I'm so proud that I did both of those things!
Not a fan of the bonus disc, but the new versions of the tracks from the 1986 classic "抜刀隊 with Memorial Gadgets" are to my ears as superb as their sources
I would buy each and every copy of this release in order to have all the unique album covers!
This is generally nice for what it's trying to be, but it does the same vaporwave-esqe shtick of abrupt cuts unnecessarily too much. Would've rated it higher if it wasn't this much of a one trick pony
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