In its relative dark sound, this album still manages to be life affirming. You feel through its twist and turns that you are witnessing the change of someone or something, each song is fairly abstract in their lyrics, but has a narrative feel sonically. Each song also feels like its made to dance in pure obscurity, while trying to grasp with the ears each bit of interesting sound texture surrounding you. The result of all this ends up feeling epic at times

The quietest dance tunes of the year. I didn't think I could feel "smallness" through pop music, but here is such a reserved, aptly minimal and atmospheric record to evoke such a weird feeling. Also, all the track of the deluxe are interesting and welcome additions.

Una passeggiata spaziotemporale nei paesaggi rurali sovietici, ma ancora intrisi del misticismo dell'ortodossia. Ogni suono lo si percepisce come distante ma risuona quasi nostalgicamente all'ascolto. Mi farebbe assai piacere se il viaggio durasse di più per mostrarmi più anfratti inesplorati di questa nicchia interessantissima

Encapsulates the poet's responsibility during hard times. Be it personal or external, make people's heart move.

I'd like like to highlight the absurdity of this style. The bass is overbearing, almost becoming a constant, stuttering rumble; there is little melody in here to grab to; the rapping is cold and distant, albeit quite funny at times. If I made my father listen to this he would probably say it's not even music. And yet here I am, literally 2 seconds into the album, already completely immersed in it. It's scuffed flow is the thing that takes it back the most, because 16 minutes ... read more

Un caldo abbraccio di frammenti di vetro. Tenuto particolarmente stretto dal melodico tepore di serafica provenienza. Non c’è scintillio sulla vetrosa superficie che non palesi contemporaneamente la propria trasparenza. Non nasconde la fragilità, bensì la incorpora cosciente che si è maggiormente taglienti proprio quando si è in frantumi.

This is a wall. A wall of multiple sorts. Spiked, with barbed wire on top. It’s impossible to climb it without feeling some pain. It’s also where form and content coincide; an abstract depiction of everything that’s brewing inside one’s own psyche, laid out in a self-explained, shapeless sonic destruction. Experiencing this is a work of projection, there is no space for “getting lost in the sound”. It’s a constant call towards every latent bit of anger, ... read more

How are such catchy riffs incapable of keeping my attention for more than 10 minutes in a row? Any slight addition or deviation from the usual guitar-drum-bass-voice combination is always welcome here, could've very much focused on those elements a lot more.

Rage is a weird feeling; one that I don't quite understand, but the biggest error would be looking at this album's main emotion as anger. It's bigger than that, yet more specific. It's an exploration of the shifts in mood between the melancholy derived from resignation and the violent shriek resulting from feeling overwhelmed by your own feeling. It's a greatly composed, hard-cutting project all around that has no dull moment. Maybe some of the more melodic parts are ... read more

Un vacillare nel perpetuo stato di tormento, in cui ogni onda rompe il tedio ed aggiunge fastidio contemporaneamente. Le sensazioni si contrastano, non sempre piacevolmente per il mio personale senso estetico, sfociando alle volte in discrete accozzaglie. Al contempo, ci rivedo positivamente alcune delle prime tracce noise dei Current 93 nella volontà di ipnotizzare l'orecchio; grattandolo ma con l'intento di scorticarlo a lungo andare. La mia attenzione nella parte finale ... read more

In “Amazing Grace”, l’artista guarda al modo in cui la religione cattolica e gli ideali patriottici intrinseci alla nazione più orgogliosa al mondo si uniscono per la formazione di tale sentimento. La decostruzione di questo orgoglio avviene attraverso le prospettive alternative a quelle canoniche, guardando alle immonde macchie presenti nella storia degli Stati Uniti, facendoci affrontare miti, stereotipi e fatti storici relativi alla condizione delle persone di ... read more

Gli elementi di natura folkloristica, che nel genere alle volte strabordano, non opprimono l'esperienza di tipo ampiamente immersiva all'interno delle altrettanto ampie atmosfere. I precitati elementi si articolano su vari motif che insaporiscono ogni traccia portando sapori quasi narrativi, soprattutto nel vedere codesti temi, che l'orecchio conosce vagamente, districarsi con le diverse texture sonore e linee melodiche. Ci sono momenti di particolare enfasi sonora in cui il ... read more

A hurt man resorts to violent fantasies to cope, and what comes out of it is an edgy parody of a serial killer that can admittedly rap very well over pretty good beats.

There is a genuine sense of void in some of these songs representative of the absolute nothingness that was going through Eminem's head around that period of drug abuse. This results in some intriguing feelings that are also enhanced by some of the eerie atmospheres of the production. Same Song And Dance, Must Be The Ganja ... read more

There's always so much interesting stuff going on underneath the brutally overwhelming bass. For the type of album it is, it doesn't matter that it's mixed so unevenly. It gets me moving.

Non-lyrical music as a vehicle of meaning is peculiar. Much has been discussed about the ability of music to actually mean things, but I’m of the opinion that nothing in the sequenced fluctuations of tonality, timbre, texture, volume or rhythm means anything at all. As much as there may be a natural, universal affinity between our ears and certain patterns that make up the varied compositions we can come across, it is nothing more than exactly that: a biological response of sorts. And ... read more

Life captured in a song. Among the greatest, most evocative tracks the world will ever see. The passing of time has never felt so viscerally tangible until the creation of this song.

“To every age its art. To art its freedom” – Wien Secession, J. M. Olbrich

“Naturalis Historia” is a 37-volume work by Pliny the Elder, an ancient Roman writer that tried to do an encyclopaedic compendium of everything concerning nature and life, spanning from astronomy to agriculture or minerology. In it there are volumes on art, which are considered to be the very first attempt at putting together elements of art history and art criticism. Particularly ... read more