thefalsesamaritan

(thefalsesamarit)

RATING: 8.5/10 (8.58)

This album feels architecturally designed to prop up its two uncritiqueable masterpieces – “Go Your Own Way” and “The Chain” – a collection of songs that funnel you successfully into and out of the soaring perfection of the record’s peak. That’s what stood out to me the most; beyond the beautiful guitar work, the masterful harmonics, the diversity of the tracks – the band clearly have a confident hold on how to ... read more

RATING: 7.1/10 (7.12)

This is mind-bogglingly impressive for something produced on a cracked VST over just seven days – a genuinely endearing quarter of an hour that oscillates between whimsy and grit. The criticisms I do have of it – the occasional aversion to consistent key, the unavoidably procedural-sounding strings, and at points the odd mixing, which are all embodied most explicitly by the opener – slowly evaporate as the “week” elapses. The points of ... read more

RATING: 7.0/10 (7.07)

For what Jikuro attempts, this is a solid release – an album of slow escalation from moody ambience to hard-hitting drum and bass. But I think by nature of the production value, it suffers from a dire symptom of being a homemade VST project; a feeling of emptiness. Like it lacks a certain dimension. But despite that, the two dimensions it does stretch into chide me from rating it any lower than I have, as overall this is still a good album nonetheless.

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JANE REMOVER REVIEW: 14/15

RATING: 9.1/10 (9.11)

This sounds like if you gave the production quality of Grave Robbing steroids, and mixed it in with the sonic ambition of dariacore 2. Containing easily some of the highest sonic peaks Jane has ever put out, their creativity explodes outwards in such a diverse myriad of directions that not once do I get bored, not once to the songs feel like they sound the same. As of writing, this is the crown jewel of their discography for me.

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