The Batlord

God damn, so many songs on this album start out strong, really strong, but then drone on for 5-6 minutes until I'm twiddling my thumbs, waiting for them to end. Thankfully there's a lot of variety here, but when pretty much every song ends up becoming repetitive anyway that only helps in keeping the album boring rather than straight up torturous. I'm about halfway through my second listen and I'm having to start hitting the skip button. I want to like this way more than I do though, since most every song grabs my attention right out of the gate, and every time I hear one that takes a unique turn I think the album is about to redeem itself, but... bleh. I honestly don't have anything more to say.

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bob.

wait....and you like doom metal?

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The Batlord

I also like the aesthetics of metal way more than indie and shoegaze. Metal speaks my musical language at a very fundamental level that other genres often don't.

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bob.

do you like the more shoegaze metal stuff?

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The Batlord

I've never really delved that deeply into it, but I've liked a lot of what I've heard even though I can't say that stuff like Alcest or Jesu are my favorite things in the world. And I don't dislike shoegaze or indie btw. I quite like My Bloody Valentine and some of the other bands I've heard, just not this album.

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bob.

honestly i did not take your review as really being that negative....i just find it interesting that you lost interest due to the repetition

i personally would not put Jesu and Alcest in the same category....but then i love Jesu and can't stand Alcest

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Trollheart

Never mind, Batty: I'm sure the next album will put a big silly grin on your face...

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The Batlord

I definitely don't dislike repetition. Give me something I can't get enough of and you can repeat it however much you damn well please, but my interest in the songs from that album simply wasn't strong enough to make me continue to care past the third or fourth minute.

And I wasn't putting Jesu and Alcest in the same category. But they both use shoegaze in metal.

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The Black Ryder - Buy The Ticket, Take A Ride

More Curve and Soundpool than MBV as far as this genre goes, this is one of the best shoegaze debuts I've heard in quite some time. Despite no particular song really dominating per-se, when taken as an overall experience and aesthetic it is obvious that Aimee Nash and Scott Von Ryper have a fantastic, harmonizing sort of synergy that reminds me of some of the great acid-folk outfits of the early 70's. That being said, Nash herself reminds me quite a bit of dream pop legend Julee Cruise more than anything else. 'Grass' has a beautiful guitar motif running through it that might make it something of a minor stoner rock classic retrospectively, though I'm no soothsayer.

Refreshing album all n' all. I give it a 9/10

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OccultHawk

Nah

Those bands are less copycatty and frankly worse off for their efforts.