Music Banter - View Single Post - Yeah Machine is my name, and hopping on bandwagons is my game!

Machine · 07-01-2015, 11:04 PM

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I wasn't gonna do this until either tomorrow or Friday cause I'm over a friends house, but **** it he dosen't mind.

Track 1: Spirit's Stampede (6:35)
Okay here we go.

Loud atmospherics to open this off, extremely large sounding. Holy crap those drums are pounding. So is this drone as well? Not what I was expecting.

Got some chimey lead guitars coming in that feel very post-rock.

Alright into a little groove that feels vaguely krautrock-esque.

Not sure I'm totally digging the guitar sounds they seem a little stereotypically "post-rock" I guess, maybe just a little clean for my taste. Nitpicking though.

The melodies are actually quite pretty.

The drumming is my favourite thing about this so far, whoever the drummer is he/she is a ****ing clock.

Liking the distorted guitars coming in at around five minutes.

Post-rock can be a little one dimensional at times with its reliance on crescendos, but I never seem to mind too much because if done well they are beautiful.

K next track.

Track 2: Vultures (5:04)

Again the drumming has a lot of flavor to it that I'm really ****ing liking.

Is that a bass right there? If so damn that's a grimy sounding bass. Loving that.

The acoustic guitar is a nice touch although the way it's mixed is a little unflattering.

Wasn't digging the melody until now; it just got huuuggee, damn this is pleasent.

Nice ambient guitar here, oops spoke too soon back to the original groove.

Again not loving the way the guitar sounds for some reason.

The big moments on this record are to die for so far. I like those moments more than anything else.

That one wasn't bad. Not great but alright.

Track 3: Terrain (5:29)

The bass tone is gritty once more.

Now that's what I want to hear from the guitars, much dirtier than the other tracks.

Is that Latin influenced drumming I hear? The hell? Was not expecting that. Guitars sounding very icy here, which works somehow with the lively percussion.

One thing I will give them is they have a great sense of melody. The melodies are very haunting and vast sounding even when they are quite simple.

Loving the noisy guitar passages on this song.

Not bad, not bad at all.

Track 4: Sheaves (7:23)

Real grandiose opening to this track. This is what I want the instruments to sound like on this album, impactful, and absolutely insisting on attention to the emotion put in.

This next section is stunning. The way the drum grooves with the simple melody is gorgeous. Who is this drummer?!

I liked this segment when the guitars were a little more restrained, and gave more room for the extra instrumebtation, but I can see that they're trying to build up; which is fine I just wish it'd been less focused on guitar sound.

Okay I guess it peaked it sounds like the beggining of the track again that huge grandiose sound. Oh I guess that's it... A little dissapointing for such a long build up there.

Track 5: I am a destroyer (9:27)

One of the longer tracks, let's see if it deserves it's length.

Nice drone quality to that bass and organ on the beggining, I love that sort of sound.

Not loving that echoey guitar, totally ruined the mood for me cutting in all obnoxiously like that.

Another suprising groove from the drummer, that somehow works with the music.

Oh boy here we go, crank up the distortion (although it dosent sound although cool as it did on Sheaves).

Nice chord progression at four minutes.

Ate those vocals I hear? *gasp* They should've used more voice because it's giving a nice change up from the basic instrumentation I've been hearing.

My only problem with this album is there's nothing about it that I find super special that I haven't heard in other post-rock bands like Explosions In the Sky or Caspian. It's not bad at all, in fact it's quite nice.

I don't have a ton to day right now, all I'm gearing is the stuff I've been hearing althroughout this record just the song is longer.

That was alright.

Track 6: Gathering (8:03)

Okay so I guess these three tracks are the epics on the album seeing as they are much longer.

Cool cymbals.

Man I wish I was into that guitar sound more, or else I'd be in love with this probably, but I don't.

Oh that's new I like the kind of fast tremolo effects on the guitar there that fit in with the snare pattern.

Piano sounds fitting.

I don't know this track is a little boring for me. It just sounds like the other tracks to a large extent.

I mean they certainly have a sound, but they aren't exactly deviating from it much at all.

I do love when they crank up that distortion a little though. It might be artificial woth no emotion at all I have no clue, but it's just more pleasing to me. Might be because I love drone so much, and the way the instrumentation bleeds together when they sound like that kind of turns into this sludge ridden drone sound.

Well that was boring save a few moments.

Track 7: Weaver (13:16)

Oh oh oh something different! That piano is very nice. They should've used that instead of chimey fake sounding echoey guitars as their main instrument. It sounds much more human.

For the first time on the album I'm a little dissapointed by the drumming right now it's falling into a sort of sleep mode post-rock groove. This is my favorite track since Sheaves as of now.

This is the best legit build up they've done this entire album, I actually feel invested in this one.

Section starting at four minutes is a little uninteresting. Okay good were back to the main build up. Man that piano is tasty.

They put the damn chimey guitars on top of the piano, I ask you WHY?!

Back to the chorus or at least a B section I guess, not loving it once again.

I'm toally into the little piano breaks they jeep doing on this track, keeps me somewhat engaged.

The top of the crescendo has arrived at last! I dislike the way the cymbals cut through the sound, but beyond that this sounds big n beautiful as it should.

Outro was great.

Track 8: Redrum (3:35)

Okay final track or really bonus teach and the last track was the last track... Either way, this is the last one for this review.

Western sounding tremolo guitars with haunting cult vocals in the back? Yeah this is my type of ****.

The ****ing drums man!

Pretty driving groove. It dosen't really sound like the homogony that was 95% of the album. Why couldn't they all be this vaired huh?

Man I wish this one was one of the longer ones, that was easily my favorite track on the album.

Final Verdict: Ki I don't want to sound like I'm insulting these guys during this review because I know you love them, but those ****ing chimey guitars really kept me from wholeheartedly enjoying this. Also some parts were just a snooze fest for me which is not okay on a fairly average length, 8 track album. It was okay, but I'm not returning to this album for a good while. (I'll still look forward to see what they have in store for their next album though).

6/10

It wasn't as good as I expected, but it was okay.