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Nice and fair review. do you prefer Static Tentions or Spiral Shadows? I find myself liking Spiral Shadows more and more lol
rofl at the pun |
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Written by Ag Fox on 11.11.2010 at 02:05
Nice and fair review. do you prefer Static Tentions or Spiral Shadows? I find myself liking Spiral Shadows more and more lol
rofl at the pun
at present, it's close between the two, but i think i prefer SPiral Shadows more at the moment. partially because of the "making of" video, which, after watching, has you understanding the approach a bit more as well as helps you catch some subtleties in the music i likely would have otherwise missed. |
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| Good review. I just received it in the mail today and have enjoyed it to a great extent. I personally enjoy it more than Static Tensions due to the fact that Spiral Shadows introduces the band's sound to progressive and melodic territory, a soundscape that the band has never previously touched. |
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Your review got me interested in this album (and band), the "headphone album" thing sounds like something that I could really enjoy a lot. 
And by the way, it wasn't a bad pun  |
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You're lucky you're not in my classroom because I'm totally "omfg... why" about the pun
I still haven't checked this band AT ALL. What is wrong with me, this seems the type of music I will love. Need some time to check it out. |
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| This is such a headphone album!! |
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Really enjoyed the last two albums, and based on your review this one also seems to be bad-ass! Thanks for the review.
Good pun btw. |
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| This album seems less intense and cluttered than Static Tensions. It makes a whole different impression and I like it so far. |
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>partially because of the "making of" video
is there a link?
I swear the mark has gone up by 0.1(?) |
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| Been listening a lot to this album lately and it sounds even more like Alchemist zespecially their Organasm and Austral Alien era than Static Tensions. not that that's a bad thing, absolutely not. |
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So a couple months on, and one grab of "Static Tensions" predecessor later, i think "Static Tensions" (a good album) is my least favorite of the three i have heard. Spiral Shadow would take the top spot. i find the album growing a bit on me with each listen, much like (but not quite as much as) Mastodon did last year.
will most likely my top 10. the top 5 or so are laid out, but... shit... spots 6 through, oh, 25 are still up in the air. lots of "very good" releases this year, but a week away from 2011 this is towards the very very good end. |
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Well a few days ago I hadn't heard this album but I'm sure if I'd heard it on its release it would have become one of my most listened records of last year and it's easily on my top 10 or the 2010. Its reception doesn't seem to have been that great in some places but I'm guessing that's down to it's mellower temperament. Anyway I love every single track, quite literally, each has a great sense of melody (which balances pretty well with the heavier sludged out parts, though it's definitely more melodic than it is heavy) and the variety of effects works extremely well not to mention the whole tribal aspect gives it a wonderfully contemplative and often epic atmosphere. Hell even the somewhat poppy bits work for me.
That all sounds really contrived and it's more or less repeating what you said in the review which I happen to totally agree with. I can understand why people might view this as watered down but I think the trade off the for heavier parts was worth it. |
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I still prefer static tensions but as you said, like the mastodon album its one of those albums that grows on you. I love laura's vocals on this one and the only thing I felt that was missing from the last one was more of her droned out vocals. This one sounds a lot like Black math horsemen ( a band you should check out if you liked this album) which is not a bad thing.
I just noticed that all the reviews i just checked out were written by BitterCold. You sir, have very good tastes in music  |
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This album is great combination of psychedelic rock and sludge metal
I prefer this to their previous |
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