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| thundersheep 09/13/17 11:25:11 PM #28: | Already regretting the decision to do two of these a day. For some reason whenever I do these ranking topics I can’t seem to remember that I have to listen to everything multiple times in order to put thoughts together. I always think an album is what, an hour max? That’s like two hours to listen and another hour or write some things down… 3 hours of my day, no big deal. But the entire point was to push myself so here goes… Soen - Lykaia I love how dramatic metal is compared to other genres. The first words in this album are literally “Eradicate all life”. Yet the overall sound of this album is quite far from doom and gloom. I haven’t really scoured the lyrics, but it actually sounds quite optimistic, likely due to how melodic the entire thing this. The album itself is very consistent, and the way I generally gauge that is by how often I check to see what track is currently playing. Throughout the hour length of this LP I did that once, during "Lucidity" to make a note on how much I was enjoying the vocal harmonies. I still can’t tell if they the lead singer’s vocals layered on top of each other, or if the band contributed backing vocals. Anyway, the problem with an album being so consistent and cohesive is that when nothing sticks out, I have nothing interesting to comment on. It’s all just… good. I mean I really enjoy the vocals on this album throughout, but even it’s just the quality of his voice that I like. It’s not as if he’s switching between a variety of singing styles throughout the album, or showing incredible range in terms of voices or characters that he embodies. He just sounds good, and continues to sound good from start to finish. I feel sorry for this “review”, really. I could have just typed “It’s p. good” and saved us all a bunch of time, but I honestly don’t have any more thoughts on this album. All I can say is that it’s really funny that the album you switched out for this was from Agalloch since their stuff gave me the exact same vibe as this album did. I remember listening to their first three albums when a few people on this board were raving about them around 2007-2008 and yeah, the music was all good. I never revisited it, and I’m kind of curious to know how I’d feel about it now. But uh… yeah. Good album, probably won’t listen to again. Final Rating: Good/10 Rankings The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis Soen - Lykaia ...which feels weird. 2 albums in and I'm already conflicted on the rankings. I mean Lykaia was great throughout and never faltered, while OP had moments I really didn't care for and some others that I really enjoyed. I guess I'm feeling that with more time OP could grow on me and I could learn to love the parts I'm not crazy about right now... while I feel like my opinion on Lykaia is already set in stone. Weird. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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