Good day, bedlam. I thank you all for your patience, but I was secretly procrastinating in fear of next round's listening sessions.
Round Four Results, 5 of 5:
Parama - Six Roaming Owls:The Hirsch Effect – Agitation:Bus Impression: “My ears are arguing with my guts over this”
The guts won. This is a visceral intense sense-raping experience flowing like a chaotic stream of consciousness, yet painstakingly crafted with subtle musical touches. Only after the feelings stop pounding you can start to attempt a kind of cold analysis, but the real magic is to really lay down your body to the song, on its conditions. The best way to describe its intensity is late King Crimson + The Wall + solo John Lennon + Tool and still wouldn't give a faithful description. From the very start the brilliant synth work tells you this is not Smashing Pumpkins weak ass angst, while the nervous animal riffing tells you're not in for some nu metal crap. By the time the glorious “Aahh ahhh ahhh” arrives, I've lost my marbles, and only because I forced myself to take notes I can remember (and not just being destroyed by) the Mermaid segment, the electric Stravinskij instrumental section, and the monstrous gravestone finale. What a focking journey.
Vote: 9 – For someone who signed up to make me regret running a roulette, you sent pretty awesome shit.
romdrums - Seedy Rom and The Hard Drives:Blue Food – Joker Face:Bus Impression: “Alex, stop focking groove dancing like a madman in the bus' aisle. We want to sleep!”
I'm incapable of foul mood and I've sometimes risked literal jailtime not resisting the urge to slip a joke at the worst time, but I must admit this tune makes me even happier than me old folks focking made me. The perfect mix of electric sexy grimy funk and a horny horn section blending with rock as anybody this side of Chicago before they lost their mind. An inebriating feeling of dirty sweaty mess held together by Jamiroquaish organisation. A lot of my teen favourite acts – Extreme, Living Colour, … - could have taken this train but someway missed it. Conversely, at first listen I thought: it's a shame they lack a guitar alpha dog like Nuno, Vernon Reid or Terry Kath, then I realised how foolish the thought was. That's exactly this act's strenght. They are a panoramic happy orgy scene without a single close-up, and no one is fluffing. And, before I forget, THOSE handclaps!
Vote: 9 – Potentially my favourite newfound act with Snarky Puppy
lonestar - Team Fuck Canada:Ostura – Duality:Bus Impression: “This is how DT would sound if Kevin never left and Mike fulfilled his Russell Allen fantasy in 2002”
This should be called Trinity, for it's threefold (symphonic metal assault – prayer – heroic crescendo sunset ride) and divine. We throw the “epic” monicker too easily around, but in this case it scarcely is enough to do the tune justice. Before I single out individual terrific moments, let me state that FINALLY a song is planned for an orchestra integrating metal gear, and not the other (lame) way around. It begins like a Hans Zimmer track for desert action movies, then the classical instruments lay down the law before a chorus sporting my favourite kind of hook: the apparently unsatisfying but secretly titillating elusive harmonic resolution. Moments of Illumination Theory riffing, of course, and I believe someone else has already copyrighted that soloing tradeoff. The central prayer (very touching) is the perfect way to cleanse the palate and allow the finale to take all the time it needs to expand in its glory. Great muscular singer, amazingly capable of shifting gears and adapt his energy to quieter moods.
Vote: 9 – First The Cave, then this. State-of-the-art prog metal is in the middle east, people.
I'm not updating the standings. I'm not even looking at them before round five is over, for my soft heart needs to determine eliminations in the dark. Plus, next round will be quasi-lightning (like I want to sit through shit for a whole week) and won't feature Hangman. I want you people comment on the turds right from the start, so full disclosure as soon as the roster's full. As compensation, I'm giving you my impressions live, right after first complete listen (I've already sampled submissions in order to check the links) for each song.
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