I'm sorry, but Godspeed You have just disappointed me with this one.

After a promising comeback from a decade long hiatus, I did have hopes that the remaining couple of albums I had yet to hear from this group would keep up the streak of fantastic instrumental post-rock records. Hell, I knew that these last few would be good considering they are getting just as much praise as the previous ones did! Unfortunately, the first of these last two releases has not set the best example for what a good ... read more

If this album proves anything, it's that Godspeed You still had it in them to create some amazing post-rock work even after a ten year hiatus.

This is yet another album presented by Godspeed You! Black Emperor where I loved almost everything I heard. Hell, like Yanqui, 'Allelujah is an album where I have a difficult time even finding anything bad about it. All four of the tracks given to us here are just fantastic post-rock songs. With two epic, twenty minute long, intense and incredibly ... read more

Yanqui U.X.O. may not be my favourite of Godspeed You's original trilogy of albums (hell, it's actually my least favourite), that doesn't mean that this should be dismissed. This actually clicked with me quicker than any other release I've heard from Godspeed You yet. After my first listen I knew that I was already in love with this, which is really refreshing considering how long LYSF took to really click with me.

While for a lot of the first listen this didn't grip me as much as F# A# ... read more

I think we've all gone through that phase. You know the one. The one where all hip-hop is trash, with one exception, that being Eminem. While I still wouldn't say I love hip-hop, I at least appreciate it a hell of a lot more than I used to. I even find myself returning to certain artists that I would have called terrible solely because of the genre they work in. But Eminem is one of those artists that I used to love; one of those artists who I assumed I would always be a fan of; one of those ... read more

The unwritten rule of this site is that, when you get around to listening to it, you must always give Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven at LEAST a 95/100. This is a rule that almost every user upholds, and is very clearly shown on the front page of this specific album (with one exception, who gave it a 90 so my point still stands). Those who do not follow this rule fall far below, hidden deep in the endless sea of positivity that is shown to this ... read more

Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada > F# A# Infinity
And that's an indisputable fact.

This is a two track long EP that both manages to be longer than most EPs out there and better than most full-length albums out there. Coming in at 28 minutes, it really is surprising just how good this is for the entire duration. I don't think there was a time in any of my listens where I didn't like what I was hearing.

I think that this is the first thing I'm hearing from Godspeed You that I can actually fully ... read more

This album did take a few listens to truly appreciate, but when it clicks... wow.

This is technically my first time listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Unless you consider Set Fire To Flames, a band which made similar music and included some of the members from this band, to be apart of Godspeed You!, this would be my first and only time (so far) listening to this group. And while I still much prefer what I heard from Set Fire To Flames, this album is still a great one that, while I do ... read more

It's no secret that the original album is mixed very weirdly. I don't want to say that it's mixed poorly as I actually really like the album, but there is one glaring unignorable issue with it that everyone notices and complains about.

When Cliff Burton died in 1986, Metallica had to get a new bassist. So they got Jason Newsted, and this was the first album he worked on with them. As a sort of initiation-joke on him, after he was done recording his parts, Lars went into the mixing studio and ... read more

This guy looks strangely similar to the drummer of Nirvana, who he himself has a strange semblance to the drummer for Queens Of The Stone Age...

Eh, whatever. All three of these bands have one more thing in common though...

You wanna know what I think of all three of these bands?

They're alright, I guess.

I originally wasn't going to review this as this is just a demo tape, but seeing as they released this on streaming services, it gave me a reason to actually check this out legally.

Considering this is a demo tape, the production is surprisingly good. While there are some pretty odd moments, like in Hush where Maynard's voice is completely in the forefront and the instrumentals are really quiet. It's particularly odd when you think about the stylistic choices they take in later albums where ... read more

I don't know what I just listened to, but I kinda like it. It gets kind of repetitive, but it's still a pretty good track considering it was made by one guy. Good job, notbuzzzilla!

Let me fix that title for you, Ed: "Sell-Out Music To Sleep To".

I was originally going to ignore this like I did with the new Chris Brown and Jaden Smith albums, but I'm sick and tired of seeing people talking about trash albums in my feed and me not getting in on the "fun". So I decided to listen to it, and I now really regret giving this any attention at all.

Somehow, no one here sounds like they even give a shit about their performance. I mean, I know that this whole ... read more

Tool are one of those bands that often sound even better live than on the studio version. It's honestly amazing that they're able to take multiple 10/10 songs and perform them exactly how they sound in the studio version or, in the case of Pushit here, manage to make the song even better.

I don't usually review live albums, but this is one of the few exceptions I will ever make. There's more than enough new material here to warrant me actually considering this a proper album. Despite this ... read more

Well, at least it isn't as offensively bad as 'V'. Still, this is one of the most boring and weakest outings from Maynard yet.

I'm sorry that I keep talking about the album covers recently, but when I came to Puscifer I knew that that would be the case. Now that I'm at this album, I find that it's the only thing that I can talk about, because everything music-wise is so mind-numbingly boring that I can barely even talk about it. This album cover is so fucking lazy that it would have been the ... read more

Thank fuck this is actually listenable music, unlike their debut. As far as I can tell, this isn't actually trying to be comedic (despite the silly costumes in the album cover), and is actually pretty emotional at times. Whether the music is actually good or not... eh...

Okay, I do have to admit that at times this did impress me musically. There were quite a few tracks here where the instrumentals actually seemed to be really well performed. This time round the instrumentalists are far better ... read more

Maynard put both Tool and A Perfect Circle on hold for over a decade to focus on this...

So, what album cover is worse: APC's Eat The Elephant or... whatever the fuck this is supposed to be? You could make a case for either as they're both awful, but personally I think this is worse. The text and background is so boring that it almost seems to represent the music as a whole, and then whatever the fuck that thing taking up the rest of the picture is just disgusting to look at. What the fuck is ... read more

I don't know what compelled them to make a cover album, but this isn't all bad.

At the time of this album's release, this was easily the worst thing to come from anything Maynard James Keenan was apart of, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. I think it is just personal bias of me not liking covers all too much, and I usually tend to avoid them. But I was really curious: I didn't want Eat The Elephant, an album I really disliked, to be the thing I'd leave off A Perfect Circle with. It ... read more

Why is everyone focusing on the horrendous cover art? I mean, yeah, the awful Photoshop job and just as bad makeup on Maynard is hard to ignore and easily makes it the worst album cover in their discography, but all of their album have terrible covers. Thirteenth Step is also poorly edited, and Mer De Noms looks like it's trapped in the '90s.

I'm not even surprised this ended up being as bad as it is. When a frontman of bands as great as Tool and A Perfect Circle decided to move all of his ... read more

This is by far the best thing to come out of A Perfect Circle. This album can even rival some of what Tool has released.

Instrumentally and vocally, the group give this their all. None of that generic sounding alt rock which I complained about in Mer De Noms is present here. Correction: there was actually one song on here that did have a pretty generic sound, but it ended up being a cover, so I forgive it. This album had very few duds and was extremely consistent, and the themes it explores is ... read more

Mer De Noms (and A Perfect Circle in general) is a much more accessible and easier to digest record than a lot of what Tool has put out. While Maynard is just as good a vocalist and songwriter here as he is on Tool, I do feel like the alternative rock sound is much more generic than the prog metal sound that Tool goes for. As a result, I don't like this anywhere near as much as anything I've heard from Tool, but I still liked this a lot.

This whole album is much easier than anything under ... read more