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Loved it 2 25.00%
Liked it 3 37.50%
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Old 05-13-2018, 09:13 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Frownland takes us into the final round six album. Rate, vote, discuss, debate and comment here.
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Old 05-13-2018, 11:22 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Oh god I'm annoyed right now. I had a whole review typed out, then, before I pressed post, I voted and the page refreshed itself, deleting my text. My fault, I know, but.... Aaaaaarrrhhhh! Hulk. Smash.

Long story short, I think the album is repetitive and boring. Nice sounds, but there's so little progression in most of these tracks that sitting through it was almost painful. "Spectral Source" is the guiltiest track of them all - and of course the longest. Skip worthy in the extreme.

"Corrosive" shows what the album could have been like if it wasn't boring (even if parts of that track are also boring), but sadly, the album is generally content to just noodle about in the background. You could call it minimalist, but then you're just trying to camouflage how dull the album is with rhetoric.

Muzak for the cross section between the electronica and ambient fanbases. Not even different enough to be interesting for its sounds. I almost never listen to these genres and still feel like I've heard it all before.

Can't wait to hear an explanation of what's supposed to be interesting about this one.

Voted "disliked it".
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I on the other hand liked it for all the reasons Mic didn't. I listened to it while playing D3 and it was very relaxing. Though some songs just sorta merge blandly with other songs they still aren't too convoluted with sfx so i didn't particularly hated any track in the album. On contrast the ones that stood out for me were Stay ugly (Mainly cause of the synth) Corrosive cause it sounds you're gasping for air right before having a heart attack and Quai cause it sounds beautiful in a sorrowful kinda way.

I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10 cause it was a nice listen but I'm not sure if it's an album worth revisiting.
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I on the other hand liked it for all the reasons Mic didn't. I listened to it while playing D3 and it was very relaxing. Though some songs just sorta merge blandly with other songs they still aren't too convoluted with sfx so i didn't particularly hated any track in the album. On contrast the ones that stood for me were Stay ugly (Mainly cause of the synth) Corrosive cause it sounds you're gasping for air right before having a heart attack and Quai cause it sounds beautiful in a sorrowful kinda way.

I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10 cause it was a nice listen but I'm not sure if it's an album worth revisiting.
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I did. Voted like.
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Fun abstract noise. Doesn't really work as chillout music (too much going on and not enough melody or space) but as an experimental electronic soundtrack to someone getting shot at a club where they're playing trap music it works pretty good. 'Corrosive' comes off as a bastardized version of a good jungle track, but that's probably the point. There's a general sense of malaise here that pushed this from "meh" to "like" for me. Good synthwork throughout too.

7 out of 10 if you like electronic music, probably 3 or less for everyone else.
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Last night I had this tedious job of fixing my guitar. Well not that tedious, I rather enjoy setting them up. So I thought might as well put this album on. Prior to listening to this album I went through album I wanted to listen, stuff that I like Tal Farlow '78. After reading these reviews I was totally not in the mood for this album. I was listening to real snazzy Jazz and I didn't switch over to "abstract noise." The reviews had me convinced it was a junk album. I was avoiding this album like the plague, playing my albums one after the other and really enjoying them. Across the board I dread being force to listen to other people's music that is rec in the Album Club 2017, except for a rare occasions when it's something I already know and like. After the last two albums I felt like I ran the gauntlet of musical punishment, but this album came as a well deserved reprieve from such musical tortures. A few tracks in and I was convinced this album was better than what the reviews implied. I kinda felt mislead by those opinions. I tend to believe it is better to start an album with low expectation than have an album that is set up as the greatest and not living up to the hype. (No offense to Ant since he hyped Colours last week. Stick to your guns Ant )

The very first impression of the album, like within the very first few seconds: this was and album by the Lijadu Sisters. Since the names "Millie & Andrea" sounds like two names of two sisters, but no that's wasn't the case, cause the actual names of the two Lijadu sisters are Taiwo and Kehinde. (Helps to check Wikipedia). Millie & Andrea are not even sisters, they are dynamic musical duo by the name of Andy Stott and Miles Whittaker "... the more you know." So basically this was my very first impressions when I heard female vocals within the first few seconds of opening track, Gif Riff. After approximately forty-five seconds when I heard voices fading out which it did very neatly I then realized it was just sampling. It wasn't a whole album of African music, but collage of various styles. The second part of of the opening track, the thumb piano was a nice touch tying in well with the opening sample.

The intro provided an interesting case cause it didn't give away immediately how the rest of the album was going to turn out to be. What is true about the first song, is also true of the whole album. Instead of focusing on one specific moment, one has to step back and think about it in its entirety. Overall a very good album.
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I didn't need to hype Colours. It's a 4.5 out of 5 starred album on AllMusicGuide and received near-universal critical praise from multiple publications when it was released. It isn't as good as Goldie's Timeless....but then again, very little is.
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