Dashie04

I have struggled with the past few weeks putting into words how these albums make me feel. Joy Division is a hard act to cover, and these songs are equally difficult to describe, but I'm going to try my best.

The songs on Closer are vast and empty, they leave cavernous spaces in the mixing, and the songs themselves are listless. It is a mind-numbing, painful listen.

But unlike Noise Rock where the pain is due to the sheer amount of noise you're inflicted with, Closer derives its ... read more

To call Television "Punk" feels a tad bit incorrect.

This music has many elements of Punk, certainly, just as it has many elements it also takes from Glam Rock and Progressive Rock.

All that being said, it's hard to call this album anything *but* Punk. The vocals are off key, the drums are heavy and simple, and the instruments might as well be playing to a completely different track than each other. Every so often the instruments align perfectly, and it'll make you ... read more

I don't know about this concept, I am merely going through a bunch of Punk records and this happened to get shuffled in. All that being said, this is the sort of album that begs to take you deeper and deeper, as the walls get denser and denser before consuming themselves in an endless void.

Imagine if you will, the shallows, there's a bit of sun streaming through and all you can see is the blue ocean all around you. With every passing track, however, the world gets darker, and the ... read more

I feel like artists benefit from an air of mystery around them.

By the time this album came out, Slint had already broken up, and I can only imagine what people would've thought when they saw this album in the wild. Who is "Slint" and what do they stand for?

Now, Slint never made another album and I don't think they're ever getting back together, but that air of mystery really makes this album an interesting one to spotlight.

It's not really about the artists ... read more