Album Club 2019: Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It

Blarobbarg · 01-24-2019, 04:35 PM

I chose this so my feelings will be biased, but here we go.

I'm not surprised this hasn't gone over well. I chose it specifically knowing a good deal of people won't care for it- it's either too experimental, or not experimental enough. There are too many heavy, harsh parts, or too many soft parts. It's got a lot going on.

That said, I LIKE all the stuff that's going on. I think that they successfully switch from soft ambient, to harsh blackened mathcore, to post-rock with pop sensibilities. They turn what could be an entirely unpleasant mess of genres into a beautiful fistful of spaghetti thrown at a wall. If that's your thing (and its mine), it will be wonderful. If you wish they'd just relax and stick to one thing, it will be a letdown.

This is a great album. It takes all the elements that made metalcore popular with teenagers in malls back in my teenage years and improves on it, making an album that is equally poppy and heavy.

I'm glad that everyone is giving it a shot, at least!

9/10

Zhanteimi · 01-24-2019, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

it's either too experimental, or not experimental enough

Yeah. It's not experimental at all. "Experimental" isn't a word that once crossed my mind while listening to this.

Blarobbarg · 01-24-2019, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi

Yeah. It's not experimental at all. "Experimental" isn't a word that once crossed my mind while listening to this.

I was more talking about the average music listener, not really our crowd around here. It's mathcore so there's a level of avant garde that's baked into the genre- maybe only in the rhythms and time signatures, but still.

Zhanteimi · 01-24-2019, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

I was more talking about the average music listener.

I'd say it's unlistenable for the average music listener.

Mondo Bungle · 01-24-2019, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi

I'd say it's unlistenable for the average music listener.

just wait til you hear this

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