Love or Hate?

Trollheart · 01-25-2017, 11:01 AM

Title: Paradise
Artiste: Pop.1280
Genre: Cyberpunk/Industrial
Familiarity:Zero
Recommended by: Qwertyy

Expectations: Absolutely not the first clue. Anything with “punk” in its name tends to give me shivers, and not of a good type. Add “industrial” in and you could be a shoe-in for the “h” word...

1. Pyramids on Mars: Certainly very dark, bleak and well I guess industrial fits quite well. Vocalist's style reminds me of Matt Johnson from The The, in fact it's almost like a slowed down, less energetic version of something off Soul Mining. Not too bad I have to say. The vocal seems to be buried a little deep in the mix, whether that's intentional or not I couldn't say, but it doesn't come across as bad production or even bad singing, so maybe. Little keyboard notes at the end are quite effective.
2. Phantom freighter: This is faster, with more heavy synth and bouncy percussion. Vocals come more to the front.
3. In silico: Very aggressive, powerful guitar. Almost dancy in its way, though probably too long at seven minutes for what's in it. Kinda hypnotic after a while. Must ... rate .. Green!
4. Chromidia: A bit samey, very growly and dark. Meh.
5. USS ISS: Don't think too much of this either. Very energetic yes but otherwise not a lot to recommend it.
6. Paradise: This has a nice almost ambient feel to it, sounds like there may be a sitar being used. Also sounds like it might be an instrumental. Yeah it is.
7. Rain song: Sounds like some sort of chant with just percussion. Interesting. Oh, there's some guitar breaking in now. This is pretty good.
8. The last undertaker: Lot of dark energy in this, real punch.
9. Kingdom come: Good powerful closer. Like it.

End result: It wouldn't be my sort of thing, but as a kind of cross between what I would see as maybe The The and ... well, I don't know what actually, but there's a good bit of Johnson in there. Anyway, as that, then yeah, I quite enjoyed it.

So, Love or Hate? Give this one a Love.

Trollheart · 01-25-2017, 11:02 AM

When I woke up this morning the first thought that went through my head was “Aw **** no! It's Wednesday and I still have to review Qwertyy's album!” This was not something I was looking forward to, not just for his album, but for any album, and it's become very clear to me over the last few weeks that my interest in and passion for this has fallen away. After returning, my initial idea was to shut this down, then I changed my mind and reopened it, and since then I've had no fun with it at all. Not only that, it seems to me that less people are interested in the thread too; time was, when there would be comments galore, now I'm lucky if someone even comments on the album of theirs which I review.

So here's where I call time on the whole enterprise. I've other stuff to do, but that's not really it. I've been busy before but happy to continue this on. But when it becomes a chore, a bore and a struggle to get through this, it's time to stop. So I am. Sorry if you're disappointed your album(s) won't get reviewed, but frankly and to be brutal about it, I won't lose sleep over it. I've given this a good go for over a year now, and I'm not prepared to slog on when I'm not enjoying it. All other recs will be removed and the thread's OP will be adjusted to reflect the fact that there are no more being taken.

Thanks to all those who did rec, and I hope I didn't slag off your albums too much on occasion, but I need to draw a line under this. It was always going to end some time, and that time is now. So thanks for your participation but

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 01-25-2017, 11:02 AM

that's two punk rec's now that have got the TH like/love

i'll take it

The Batlord · 01-25-2017, 11:21 AM

He reviewed ICP and that's all that matters.

Blank. · 01-25-2017, 03:14 PM

Did you do the two albums I recced?

Trollheart · 01-25-2017, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1blankmind

Did you do the two albums I recced?

No, sorry. Never got to them, like a lot of others.

DwnWthVwls · 02-03-2017, 03:26 PM

You busy with other stuff Troll? you haven't been as active in here as you were in the past.

Trollheart · 02-03-2017, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

You busy with other stuff Troll? you haven't been as active in here as you were in the past.

Read above. I've closed this down. Permanently.

DwnWthVwls · 02-03-2017, 03:50 PM

Doh, I haven't checked in a while.. I guess that's why it was on the second page. Are you working on anything else? I'm kind of a lounge lizard at this point, so I tend to fall behind in the music sections.

Trollheart · 02-03-2017, 04:05 PM

I'm working on tons of stuff, but it's pretty much all going to be in journal format. History of classical music, Movies journal (Shark Tales going on at the moment), Heavy Metal and Prog journals, The Great Discography Project, History of Prog, History of Ireland, and a lot of other stuff.

01-25-2017, 11:01 AM	#3131 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Title: Paradise Artiste: Pop.1280 Genre: Cyberpunk/Industrial Familiarity:Zero Recommended by: Qwertyy Expectations: Absolutely not the first clue. Anything with “punk” in its name tends to give me shivers, and not of a good type. Add “industrial” in and you could be a shoe-in for the “h” word... 1. Pyramids on Mars: Certainly very dark, bleak and well I guess industrial fits quite well. Vocalist's style reminds me of Matt Johnson from The The, in fact it's almost like a slowed down, less energetic version of something off Soul Mining. Not too bad I have to say. The vocal seems to be buried a little deep in the mix, whether that's intentional or not I couldn't say, but it doesn't come across as bad production or even bad singing, so maybe. Little keyboard notes at the end are quite effective. 2. Phantom freighter: This is faster, with more heavy synth and bouncy percussion. Vocals come more to the front. 3. In silico: Very aggressive, powerful guitar. Almost dancy in its way, though probably too long at seven minutes for what's in it. Kinda hypnotic after a while. Must ... rate .. Green! 4. Chromidia: A bit samey, very growly and dark. Meh. 5. USS ISS: Don't think too much of this either. Very energetic yes but otherwise not a lot to recommend it. 6. Paradise: This has a nice almost ambient feel to it, sounds like there may be a sitar being used. Also sounds like it might be an instrumental. Yeah it is. 7. Rain song: Sounds like some sort of chant with just percussion. Interesting. Oh, there's some guitar breaking in now. This is pretty good. 8. The last undertaker: Lot of dark energy in this, real punch. 9. Kingdom come: Good powerful closer. Like it. End result: It wouldn't be my sort of thing, but as a kind of cross between what I would see as maybe The The and ... well, I don't know what actually, but there's a good bit of Johnson in there. Anyway, as that, then yeah, I quite enjoyed it. So, Love or Hate? Give this one a Love. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

01-25-2017, 11:02 AM	#3132 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	When I woke up this morning the first thought that went through my head was “Aw **** no! It's Wednesday and I still have to review Qwertyy's album!” This was not something I was looking forward to, not just for his album, but for any album, and it's become very clear to me over the last few weeks that my interest in and passion for this has fallen away. After returning, my initial idea was to shut this down, then I changed my mind and reopened it, and since then I've had no fun with it at all. Not only that, it seems to me that less people are interested in the thread too; time was, when there would be comments galore, now I'm lucky if someone even comments on the album of theirs which I review. So here's where I call time on the whole enterprise. I've other stuff to do, but that's not really it. I've been busy before but happy to continue this on. But when it becomes a chore, a bore and a struggle to get through this, it's time to stop. So I am. Sorry if you're disappointed your album(s) won't get reviewed, but frankly and to be brutal about it, I won't lose sleep over it. I've given this a good go for over a year now, and I'm not prepared to slog on when I'm not enjoying it. All other recs will be removed and the thread's OP will be adjusted to reflect the fact that there are no more being taken. Thanks to all those who did rec, and I hope I didn't slag off your albums too much on occasion, but I need to draw a line under this. It was always going to end some time, and that time is now. So thanks for your participation but __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

02-03-2017, 04:05 PM	#3140 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	I'm working on tons of stuff, but it's pretty much all going to be in journal format. History of classical music, Movies journal (Shark Tales going on at the moment), Heavy Metal and Prog journals, The Great Discography Project, History of Prog, History of Ireland, and a lot of other stuff. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

01-25-2017, 03:14 PM	#3135 (permalink)
Blank. Jacob Sartorius Join Date: May 2016 Location: Dank memes Posts: 4,033	Did you do the two albums I recced?