Unnecessarily long.
I loved the singles, especially "The Grants" and "A&W", but the album has very useless fillers like the Judah Smith interlude (4 minutes?! WTF?!), "Margaret" (that is a generic and tasteless folk pop ballad), "Fingertips" is a 60s Pop Revival track that sounds very kitsch and stagnant to me, like almost every song of this 'genre'; "Kintsugi" is a soothing (and very forgettable) Singer-Songwriter song with very good ... read more
The perfect balance between: quirky fun and dark, romantic themes; danceable rhythms and gothic atmospheres; playful experimentation and political lyrics.
Favorite tracks: "When They Call Us", "New Utensils" (African music + deconstructed neoperreo wtf), "Kandy", "Even It Out" (Fever Ray turns into Trent Reznor), "Carbon Dioxide" (my fav), "North" (the most atmospheric track on the album and a nocturnal masterpiece) and "Tapping ... read more
THIS SHIT IS SHOCKINGLY DISTURBING, ANXIOUS, SCARY, OMINOUS, SUSPENSEFUL, UNSETTLING and WILDLY BRUTAL. Scarier than 90% of horror films.
Yeah there's a 32 minutes track, but this thing is so transcendental and hypnotic that i didn't even notice that IT IS 2 HOURS LONG. I mean, this is transcendental in the worst sense of the word, this felt like a nightmare. But i know that i'm going to listen to this again. I don't know why, maybe 'cause it is fucking stunning, but i will return very soon to ... read more
That was ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING.
A very different take from the usual Xiu Xiu industrial approach, but definitely great.
The tracks alternate between dark ambient soundscapes, drones, avant-garde and dissonant chamber music orchestrations and pounding industrial beats. There are even some very dissonant Avant-Garde/Free Jazz moments that turn the album's atmosphere from ominous to scary, while Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo whisper some abstract and creepy things.
They created a haunting world ... read more
This is a visionary, alienating and futuristic album that tried out to mix industrial music and rock (specifically post-punk) with some elements from jazz, funk, krautrock and synthpunk.
Definitely flawed and some tracks are just too long, but this is very important for the development of the industrial genre and it is one of the first industrial-rock experiments ever.
Best tracks: "A Touch of Evil", "Sly Doubt", "Landslide", "Black Mask"
Worst track: ... read more
Just... wow.
Every track has a brilliant suspenseful structure with very energetic grooves that in some points can get very aggressive, dissonant and noisy. This album is nightmarish, distressing, scary and danceable at the same time. It is a depressive ride that is, for some reason, very "fun" to listen to. Very paradoxical, but that's how I feel about it.
There are some tracks where i found the sound to be very similar to a hypothetical Daughters-Xiu Xiu collab, in a very ... read more
This is just some generic Electropop.
Half of the tracks are mixed like ass.
Il disco più sperimentale dei Bluvertigo e un omaggio al Bowie di rock elettronico degli anni '70. Semplicemente squisito.
La copertina più brutta che io abbia visto in vita mia.
La musica spacca però.
70 -> 95
On the first listens i thought it was good, but slightly unfinished.
Well... after 5 months or so, i listened to this again (for the fourth time).
I was fucking wrong.
Edit:
I want to apologize particulary with "Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy" (25->87) and "Normal Love" (67->100)
What the fuck did i listen to 5 months ago? LOL
The title-track is pretty meh tbh... it has both breathtaking and cringe moments. Interesting and visionary, but not very transcendental or hypnotic imo.
The other 4 tracks are masterpieces.
Unfinished (in the sounds, in the concepts), but there are some bangers.
Fav tracks: "Deadbeat Protest", "By the Light", "Nois Bois", "Time Float"
Worst track: "Chain Gang Quantum Blues"
Come sempre.
La produzione non è male, con una tendenza al midtempo bass e alla dubstep.
La voce di BLANCHITO BABEEEEEHHH è terribile, con una melodia nel ritornello poco ispirata e piuttosto pietosa.
Il cane è carino però.
nah guys, this is ass, his voice is truly laughable and the lyrics are not very good. production is bad too.
the fact that this song is a tribute doesn't make it a good track.
Pretty good tbh
The cover got me like "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!", but the music is very pleasant
![渋さ知らズ [Shibusashirazu] - 渋星 [Shibuboshi]](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/157368-shibuboshi-.jpg)
Holy shit!
This album is... just wow, in a way that i felt myself adventuring in an EPIC trip in space in a jidaigeki war on Mars with a proto-black midi vibe soundtrack. Seriously, in some moments i expected to hear Gordie Greep from black midi slamming his lyrics.
The definition of an epic, trascendental and visionary piece of music art.
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