Love or Hate?

Trollheart · 06-22-2015, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

Tell you what, TH. Listen to half of it (the best tracks are at the beginning), and if you hate it, you can stop.

No, I promised to listen to every album all the way through and I will. I even honoured that with Merzbow!

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Originally Posted by TechnicLePanther

Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain

If you want, just do the regular tracks, and not the bonus stuff.

I seldom if ever listen to bonus tracks

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Originally Posted by Machine

Sun Kil Moon - Benji

Edit: Ignore this one I'm gonna change it

Yeah I did that already

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Oh dear god -_-

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Originally Posted by Machine

What's wrong with that?

It wasn't here, but I think Under Trollheart's Tree last year? Bloody hated it to death.

Just a note: you can if you want suggest more than one album at a time but my preference is for one from each member. If you decide to rec more than one, be aware that your choices will be split up by a five-member gap, in other words, your second choice will not be looked at until five choices (not including your first) have been, and then the same for your third. So it sort of makes not too much sense to do that, as you won't be getting a jump on anyone by flooding me with requests. It's best just to choose the one or maybe two you really want me to listen to and then wait for a while before suggesting more.

YorkeDaddy · 06-22-2015, 01:07 PM

Okay well then go ahead and put me down for both "Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas" and "A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent", however I'm more interested in your thoughts on the former so put that one on the list first

The Batlord · 06-22-2015, 01:28 PM

Hehe. Cocteau.

And, as my last one for a good minute, I'm gonna throw in...

Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground

And you can throw that ahead of my other two recs, cause I'm more curious about your thoughts on that one.

Trollheart · 06-22-2015, 01:33 PM

Title: Silver
Artiste: Jesu
Genre: Post-Metal/Shoegaze/Sludge (?)
Familiarity: Zero; heard one track I think on the now-defunct Mixtape thread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_(Jesu_EP)

Track 1(Love) Not what I expected at all. Hard, heavy, almost distorted guitars and a quiet voice that is actually a little hard to make out (too low in the mix?). Slow song with a sense of grunge and doom metal about it I feel. Like it a lot.
Track 2(Love) More uptempo and energetic, and I can hear the singer better now. Shoegaze (if that's what this is) does tend to drown out the vocals a lot, so maybe that's it.
Track 3(Love) Slower, more crunching and buzzy even, but I like this one too.
Track 4(Love) Love the kind of marching beat on this one, the vocoders (?) and then kind of metal guitar near the end.

End result: Yeah, I really enjoyed this. If this is shoegaze, then I preferred it a whole lot more to MBV, which I could not get into at all. I'd also like to say thanks to Machine for choosing an album (EP) with only four tracks, which allowed me to get this one done really quickly.

So, Love or Hate? Definite Love

Chances of a full review: 8/10

Trollheart · 06-22-2015, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Okay well then go ahead and put me down for both "Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas" and "A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent", however I'm more interested in your thoughts on the former so put that one on the list first

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Hehe. Cocteau.

And, as my last one for a good minute, I'm gonna throw in...

Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground

And you can throw that ahead of my other two recs, cause I'm more curious about your thoughts on that one.

Yeah, these are good points: although I said FCFS, if you want the order of your recs to be switched around I'm happy to do that, as I did with Goofle and Kitty. Just let me know, preferably before I add them to the list later tonight.

**Frownland** · 06-22-2015, 01:59 PM

I gotta say I'm pretty surprised you liked Jesu so much. I thought that would be a definite hate.

Machine · 06-22-2015, 02:01 PM

Alright instead of the Sun Kil Moon album how about
La Dispute - Wildlife
I don't know if you'll like the vocals which are a mix between sort of yelled and spoken word, but I think there's a chance if you liking it a lot.

Machine · 06-22-2015, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I gotta say I'm pretty surprised you liked Jesu so much. I thought that would be a definite hate.

I was a little scared that he wouldn't like it.

Justthefacts · 06-22-2015, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

It definitely takes a special kind of person to enjoy Kozalek's weird rambley style

I loved Benji. And that one song where he riffs on The War On Drugs, priceless.

Machine · 06-22-2015, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Justthefacts

I loved Benji. And that one song where he riffs on The War On Drugs, priceless.

The War On Drugs: Suck My Cock was ****ing awesome it probably helps that The War On Drugs bore me to death.

06-22-2015, 01:33 PM	#914 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Title: Silver Artiste: Jesu Genre: Post-Metal/Shoegaze/Sludge (?) Familiarity: Zero; heard one track I think on the now-defunct Mixtape thread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_(Jesu_EP) Track 1(Love) Not what I expected at all. Hard, heavy, almost distorted guitars and a quiet voice that is actually a little hard to make out (too low in the mix?). Slow song with a sense of grunge and doom metal about it I feel. Like it a lot. Track 2(Love) More uptempo and energetic, and I can hear the singer better now. Shoegaze (if that's what this is) does tend to drown out the vocals a lot, so maybe that's it. Track 3(Love) Slower, more crunching and buzzy even, but I like this one too. Track 4(Love) Love the kind of marching beat on this one, the vocoders (?) and then kind of metal guitar near the end. End result: Yeah, I really enjoyed this. If this is shoegaze, then I preferred it a whole lot more to MBV, which I could not get into at all. I'd also like to say thanks to Machine for choosing an album (EP) with only four tracks, which allowed me to get this one done really quickly. So, Love or Hate? Definite Love Chances of a full review: 8/10 __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 06-22-2015 at 04:09 PM.

06-22-2015, 01:59 PM	#916 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I gotta say I'm pretty surprised you liked Jesu so much. I thought that would be a definite hate. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

06-22-2015, 02:01 PM	#917 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	Alright instead of the Sun Kil Moon album how about La Dispute - Wildlife I don't know if you'll like the vocals which are a mix between sort of yelled and spoken word, but I think there's a chance if you liking it a lot. __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.