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Agree with this. HoJo was a little too "Nice Guy" in my opinion. Went down the MOR very quick. Kershaw's second album was better than his first - I remember having that one on cassette.


Onto my choice for this post - Modern English's Stop Start. Stop should have been the word they were thinking of when they were recording this as well as letting their guitarist have that "Captain Morgan" look which I feel killed their chances to continue their existence with a Pop Hit that "Ink and Paper" should have been. A couple of tracks equal a single for me, and this time they certainly did not have what it took to create one of those forgettable 80's too late in the game New Wave Pop albums which had at least a Pop savvy that at least winds up in one of those albums that you may be caught buying from the cutout bin and getting away with it. After the Snow had good hooks, Ricochet Days saw the ideas slowing down, but this was just grasping for any synth line they can find and wrapping it up with too much production. It's understandable they tried for the Big Time, but this was a mega fail - I can imagine the Cut Out copies being pressed in the second week of release.

LoathsomePete

Don't let it discourage you from at least trying it out. As I said the album wasn't bad, it just wasn't very memorable for me. Besides that one song it just kind of blended together and was just a little too soft for my taste. If I was smoking a joint and listening to it on really nice headphones I'd probably be singing a different tune, but I've never really bought the whole "you have to be stoned to enjoy it" argument.

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Key

I always give an album one or two spins before I make an opinion about it. Though, with Anathema, my expectations are usually pretty high because their other albums have really gotten me into that whole Porcupine Tree'ish sound. Porcupine Tree did that for me as well, though their albums have been a bit more consistent in terms of sounding good.

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Katatonia - Dead End Kings (2012)

Not sure why I'm so disappointed with this album, their last album was pretty mediocre, but there was at least something hypnotizing about its mediocrity, this is just a snorefest. I really have no memory of any riffs, any lyrics, or really anything about the album.

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Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
I hated this so much it made me feel ill. I love Steven Wilson in Porcupine Tree (In Absentia in particular), but this album was an hour and a half of garbage.

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I think Grace For Drowning just doesn't flow well and is too long. I think some of the individual tracks have a lot of merit, but its damn difficult to sit through all of it at once and the reward for doing so is minimal in comparison to other lengthy albums.

He just released a live album. Catalogue Preserve Amass or something. It sounded a lot better mixed with songs from his other album.

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Mojo

Thats a shame. I was wondering if it was any good and was gonna get round to listening to it. Obviously I still will and I'm still hoping to like it, but I know you're a fan so it sucks that you aren't into it. I'm not a big fan but I'm still exploring their work, so I could be. I loved Brave Murder Day but I'm still working on a lot of their output. I'm going to see them for the first time in December, with Alcest and Junius.


WITCHSORROW - GOD CURSE US (2012)

If you like doom and can get past the vocals which were, in my opinion, weak and dull then maybe you would think more of this record than I did. I didn't hate it, it isn't terrible but it is tired. Just listen to Electric Wizards Dopethrone and then Black Sabbaths Sabotage and then only listen to this if you would like to hear their small, uglier, slightly simpler baby.

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I've heard great things about that Katatonia album actually. Going to listen to it soon.

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Kendrick Lamar - good kid, M.A.A.D. city (2012)

Yeesh... I lowered my expectations but evidently not enough because I really had to try to not hit the eject button on my car's CD player and toss the burned disc out the window. I have yet to hear a song I like and I find myself growing increasingly annoyed at the phone call conversation things at the end of the tracks that go on way too long.

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Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Am I the only person on the planet who doesn't dig this album? I don't really see what all the fuss is about, the only memorable song on the album to me is 'Matilda' and the rest just goes right past me. But what really irks me the most about this album is the annoying faux-African vocals, despite their vocalist hailing from Leeds or somewhere in the UK. I've given the album about three plays but I just can't get into it at all.

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