new music friday nice.
elder - this is pretty solid. doesn't really feel like it's breaking any new ground for them though? like i dunno if i'd buy this. it's solid stuff but they're really just sticking to their guns & i already have two albums of that
sikth - the vocals are still annoying at moments & the talky tracks are bleh but it seems less "wacky" here than on their other albums, so it's alright. and musically there's some cool stuff going on. may check this one out again, dunno
also i need to do this, dang.
the hirsch effekt - yeah, i do feel this is the weakest of their three albums but. that's kind of a high bar to hit. mostly i think this one is a bit unfocused? there's a lot of stuff here. math rock, glitchy idm, post-hardcore, prog metal stuff, occasionally some folk touches & mathcore touches. it's a friggin' dynamic album but a lot of the songs are disjointed & it flows way more as an album than as individual songs, which is not something i would say about their other releases. but i still enjoy it quite a bit, it's kind of fascinating in a trainwreck-y sort of way
minsk - this doesn't really have any moments where it really..."grabs" me, but it's solid front-to-back. i guess i'm not a huge fan of track two but that's a small, small fraction of the album. i feel like i'm missing something though, like it hasn't quite clicked. maybe it's the vocal style, it's a bit strange for the genre. i'm still interested in giving this more spins though for sure
planning for burial - i feel like the more i listen to this the less it does for me. the shorter tracks are all just "okay", and the longer tracks... being a teenager stuck out on first listen but it loses its power on relistens. verse/chorus/verse is prob the only song that's got better, the 13 min ambient closer is just a bit too minimal and motionless to be compelling for its length really. maybe a bit disappointed by this one, it's not bad but it's not great either
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