Releasio

I just wanna get my problems with SMILE! :D out of the way: 1. I wish the singles did the album’s full vision more justice. They were amazing, and way dancier than the rest of the track list. They set an unrealistic expectation for everything else. 2. I don’t understand why Russian Roulette was as early in the track list as it was. It’s supposed to be Porter’s “I want to live” statement. It’s climatic as hell and would make much more sense to put ... read more

Rainbow Bridge 3 is a one-trick pony, and that one tricn got real old real fast. It’d probably be a 6 if it was 20 minutes shorter. When you only listen to one song it’s really fucking funny, but as an album experience it’s draining.

This album managed to hurt me. What the actual fuck was that. This album made me so sad. Not an aesthetic sadness. A genuine sadness that won’t end. I have next to no experience with death industrial, and after this album, I’m glad for that. Xiu Xiu have finally made something truly despicable. I can now say that music has changed my life for the worse.

Gamma could have very well been an 8/10 record, maybe even higher. Unfortunately this was a very underwhelming listen. Gesaffelstein had great ideas in these songs but failed to sufficiently develop them. Aleph suffered from this to an extent but it’s felt much more here. 27 minutes clearly is not enough. If most of these songs were longer than 2 or 3 minutes, they could’ve been unreal bangers. A part of me thinks the promos shouldn’t have gone as hard as they did. They set my ... read more