The Identity Matrix

Welcome everyone to The Identity Matrix’ Music Journal. A place where I will be constantly giving out album reviews, track reviews, music based rants, non-music based rants, and other little surprise projects that I am working on. This is a place where I am able to get my writings out into the public so that I can get feedback and get people to listen (or not listen) to some albums that I review. There will be discussion topics thrown in here once in awhile so I can keep all of those under one thread for now. Anyway I hope you enjoy your stay in this domain, as well as find something new.







A few rules that only pertain to me…

1. I will be color coding the titles of each main post of this journal. Red means album reviews or track reviews, Blue means rant regarding music, Purple means rant not regarding music, Green means announcement of a project (i.e discography reviews, focus on certain time periods or genres), and finally Black means standard discussion topic.

2. I am very accepting of any positive or negative feedback to help improve the journal and my writing skills. So please critique away!

3. Finally, I am certainly not expecting this to take off considering I am fairly new to this forum. This was the major reason I wanted to join. To create a journal to allow me to write down my musical opinions, with a few non-musical, and share them with others. Thus I will be spending a lot of time and effort on here so I won’t be just quitting if I don’t get a single response on this thread in a week. I promise to keep at it no matter what.

4. I will be following a set guideline for the way I score albums. I will be running a 100 point system in the case of each Point being worth .1 of the final score for each album reviewed. Track reviews will be done without a score only a like, dislike, and why the case is.

A quick breakdown for scoring purposes
9.1-10 A fantastic record that I would recommend to anyone regardless of preference for genres
8.1-9.0 A great record that has few to quite a few nit picky details that turn me off but otherwise a rec to anyone into the genre or band
7.1-8.0 a good record that has something glaring at me and saying "I'm not perfect" it may be a specific song or two or an overarching issue that hurts all the songs just a little bit
6.1-7.0 an ok record that failed to hit a home run. Very few standout tracks but filled with passable to mediocre ones. A skip for most people but not a waste of time.
5.1-6.0 an average record that feels like it had some potential but wasted it on a few bad tracks. Maybe deserves a listen if you are curious but other than that I wouldn't recommend it.
4.1-5.0 a bad record that is a waste of time. It might have one or two good tracks to pick out but otherwise leave it where it lies.
3.1-4.0 a terrible record that may have one to two passable tracks but that's it. Not worth a full listen ever.
2.1-3.0 a horrible record that makes my ears bleed or causes me to throw up. Take your pick. It won't matter because this album is just bad.
1.1-2.0 just no. Don't even bother asking me why I didn't like it because I'll be too busy trying to forget about the whole thing.
0.0-1.0 I don't think I will ever reach rock bottom, but if I do, this is it. Lock it in a box and throw it into a volcano.

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