TechnicLePanther

Man, I'm cool with this album, but it's not really something that I can analyze, nor something that I would really listen to again. It's just hard to penetrate the mental gap between the music I typically listen to and this. This genre of music is just meaningless to me. And hence another short review. I didn't dislike this album, but I probably won't ever listen again. 6.5/10

On my list of never-ending favorite to least blah blah blah albums:

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Various Artists - Molam: Thai Country Groove from Isan Vol. 2
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Sorry, Springsteen fans, I'm not a fan.

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Trollheart

Guns n Roses over The Boss? You should be shot.

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Aloysius

One of my favorite picks for the album club so far, as this genre of music is completely new to me. It did remind me a bit of some Vietnamese folk I've heard. This is a great example of heterophonic music (where the main instrument follows the singer's melody, but delayed a few beats). Because the melodies are always pentatonic the vocal line harmonises nicely with the instrumental line. Even where the music is stealing riffs from western funk or psych, it keeps this heterophony, and at the same time grooves really hard. The vocals are great, with weird bouncy vowels. While I'm not sure this style has the same depth as some other Asian traditions (especially Hindustani and Karnatic), it's still a great example of heterophonic folk that pilfers western music in groovy ways, and I'm giving it

7.5/10

innerspaceboy

Loved this well-informed response! Loving the insight.

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