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| Topic | Raetsel continues listening to music. |
| Raetsel_Lapin 11/10/18 1:14:22 AM #11: | Binged on a lot of music tonight--probably too much all in a row, but let's see what details I can remember. BE "Everything after Be is a step down," seemed like a cue to start there. I like concept albums, it already had one song I highly enjoyed, and a recommendation for the album itself definitely pushed it over the edge. Having listened to the entire thing now, I'm not quite sure what I listened to. It bounced between genres, characters, and concepts so rapidly that at no point did I ever have a guess what was coming next. It feels rather like the inevitable punchline the entire last topic was building up to; complain about songs being too repetitive or not varied enough, crash into an album that feels like it can't stay on any one train of thought for more than a few minutes before derailing with enough force to launch into space, through a black hole, and into another universe before exploding in a shower of rainbow colored chocolate chips. "Animae Partus I": A great start to the album. I've mentioned enjoying songs about questioning God; God questioning God is a different take on it, but one I can appreciate. Enjoy the shifting voices, very nice. I have a hard time calling it "music" though, it reminds me of that Sega CD Warning video--it does a lot of things I like, but could I really give it a high score? ...now I want a mash-up of this song and Sega CD Warning. I feel like if Warning were to continue into a full album as I always dreamed it would, something like this song would follow it. https://www.rave.dj/7AoKfe81XA-cYQ O.o? "Deus Nova" was also interesting. The counting population growth bit might go on too long, but works for what it is, and I'm up for more confused-tri-voice-God. "Imago (Homines Partus)" is an unexpected change of genre, going with a nautical type song? It's nice, but it's also the point where I realized I was definitely not going to understand anything, much like with Imaginos--though I was drawn to Imaginos due to the confusing nature of things, so that's a compliment. We then go to an orchestral interlude about rain for..some reason. That goes on for five minutes. I like rain and I like songs doing something unexpected, so I actually don't mind this--never going to be one of my favorite tracks of the album, but it's not bad. "Lilium Cruentus", just to further defy expectations, is a relatively normal song about grieving the death of a loved one. On the surface, anyway. There's probably a thousand deeper levels of meaning to the song, but whatever; it works and I like it--not as much as the first two tracks or Iter Impius, but I like it. "Nauticus"...uhh...what? "Dea Pecuniae", while I'm not exactly a fan of it (or even particularly clear who or what Dea Pecuniae is), works well enough. It's nice to develop Mr. Money a bit before we get to Iter Impius, so it's what I was looking for when I started the album. "Vocari Dei" is another interesting experiment that I like, though I don't know that I could give a good score to it. It's apparently fans of the band leaving messages for God while an orchestra plays background music; there's something very...pure about it. "Diffidentia (Breaching the Core)"; I'm completely lost on this track's symbolism, but I think I like it well enough. It's probably the first song that I can actually identify as Progressive Metal on the entire album. *more songs to come; long album...long, complicated album...* --- Marshmallow unicorns forever! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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