As one of the greatest albums I've heard coming from a very small musician (seriously, this guy has 1300 subscribers on YouTube at the time I'm writing this, give him some love), MK ORCHESTRA turns out to be an incredibly refreshing mix of the heavy dynamics from people like SebastiAn and Gesaffelstein, and the soothing comfort of Justice and Daft Punk, made more apparent by the vintage corporate themes used by the marketing.
The opening track, "Symphony", explains what ... read more
Pretty fine. Sounds quite ambient-like in most tracks and tries to keep them going repeatedly for as long as they can, which causes some issues with repetition that might bore you out. If not, it's a good album to play in the background.
Unfortunately slightly overrated.
Coming to this album in good faith, after I heard of the importance and acclaim this one had in a couple people, I unfortunately discovered it was less interesting than I thought.
Alright. Couple great songs here and there, but overall just alright. It certainly would make for a pretty good listen if I didn't listen to any other highly acclaimed EDM album of the 2000s - especially Justice's †, which released shortly after Idealism - but the ... read more
Bro thinks he's the second coming of SebastiAn, and I love it!
1973 my ASS.
This sounds nothing like I would've ever imagined from the time period and, as the beginning of my odd little venture into these prog rock albums (I'm mainly an EDM listener, but the influence of this genre on the Plok! game soundtrack made me inspired), makes me wonder if anything else from this era would reach the sheer happiness I felt when I knew this album wasn't "overrated" for no reason.
I understand the importance of this album, which makes me a little underwhelmed with the actual songs.
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