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Latest Wire magazine gives it a shitty review - after having them on the cover last month. I think its fair journalism, even if i don't agree with them.. I just hntought it was amusing all the same. |
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happy to hear that as i don't think much of the album either and i have quite a bit of respect for the wire! although they thought takk was shitty too :) |
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I think it sucks but I'm sure mine's a fake. It sounded like a track-by-track rehash of Geogaddi. Without the good bits. |
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Oh wow. |
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Sorry i should elaborate really. I just made a schoolboy error and i am embarassed now. :$ |
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Is the review available on the internet, or is it mag-only? |
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i hope my issue arrived today. woo. my fav mag fo sho! |
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probabaly mag only... hope they review HAB next month |
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i hope they say crappy things about it as well to boost thier egos oh yeah THC is good, the HAB are supa-wonderful ! |
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it's still entirely possible (and actually pretty likely) that it will end up on the best of list at the end of the year... |
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Allmusic have their review up - 3.5 stars. |
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never seen your thoughts on it? found it enjoyable? |
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i've heard it less than once all the way through in a record store. i want to like it... i hope i will like it... we'll see. |
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only heard it a few times. i'll giove it more listens to let the nuances flow over me. i have heard the 2nd 2 tracks a lot and they grew on me real well. i instantly liked dayvan cowboy. So far the rest are meh.... but i think they'll get better. The inside cover is a bit overkill. We get the whole old-photograph thing already! |
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I bought both Untilted (also slated by everyone it seems) and The Campfire Headphase this weekend and listened to them for the first time on the train down to London. It bemuses me how anyone could be overtly critical of these albums because they're both frugging brilliant - is there a rule somewhere that anticipated albums have to be reviewed negativly despite being great? I remember reading loads of reviews on Drukqs being rubbish and being surprised at how awesome it was when I listened to it finally. The Wire also didn't like Geogaddi much if I recall. |
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I know it's shit but I really don't want it to be |
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This was a no win album for BoC as far as reviews were going to go...too similar to previous albums and they "haven't progressed", make a few changes and "it doesn't sound like BoC, they've lost their magic blah blah blah". Having listened to the album a lot over the past week and a bit I think it contains the cynical edge all of their work does but still makes me yurn for something unexplainable. Most music journalists are pack animals typing shit without really listening to an album, especially in electronic music where more work goes into technically analysing tracks instead of enjoying the music. I know for a fact some reveiws are written by peicing together other reviews with the so called reviewer not listening to the source material at all. |
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I love it. It may be my favorite album of the year. |
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oi! it all comes down to this album being really boring. |
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more boring than analord? |
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It bemuses me how anyone could be overtly critical of these albums because they're both frugging brilliant That comes down to the beholder though. But there is something especially in this "scene" if one wants to call it that. Instead of accepting the album for what it is we tend to have extreme obsessive "fanboyism" and then often times boring outlandish critiques. People tend to pick apart albums almost surgically, like vultures. I think ecnad really hit it dead on when he posted "Most music journalists are pack animals typing shit without really listening to an album, especially in electronic music where more work goes into technically analysing tracks instead of enjoying the music." |
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i could make a more boring compilation out of analords. but i could also make a much much much better one as well. |
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I can understand why some would hate it; it can be pretty "meh" in a lot of places. But I enjoy it as a chill out thing, just in the backround. It's really relaxing and pretty atmospheric. |
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Well I enjoy listening to TCH in the car far more than I do reading the academic dry wank that is Wire magazine, so stick that in your fucking end of year list. |
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how many hans christian andersen books have you got? |
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I listened to it for the first time today - I was a bit disappointed. It had about 4 tracks that stuck out - a lot of it was really quite dull for me, plus, as Obara observed to me earlier, a couple of the tracks sound like Air. |
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Yeah, it sounded very similar to Air in places to me. But then again, I actually really like Air, so it's not a problem. |
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Why do you ask that, do you think Hans and I have a similar literary style? I’m Hans Christian Andersen, My pen’s like a babling brook Pemit me to show you, Dear Sir, my very latest book, and if you don't like it go shove it up your pimhole you greasy, bedridden worm. |
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haha :) |
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I quite like Air but if I want to listen to them I'll put their music on. I wanted to listen to BoC. |
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haha! That brought joy to my day! |
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lessons learned today: there is no such thing as the beholder. the opinion of the xlter is irrefutable. and therefore: the idea of an album receiving both positive and negative reviews is flabbergasting. the moment you express your thoughts on an album in a review, you obviously don't give a shit about music, and your opinion is entirely based on one-upmanship and misanthropy. (despite the fact that you likely are just barely eeking out a living on the piss poor wages that any music journalist working in this field makes) |
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Surely no one pays music critics anymore...? |
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That was not my impression with Untilted. It seemed well received. |
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i wouldn't have said slated. the review was sort of 50/50 |
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ooh, a Fry and Laurie reference! pimhole! |
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takk was good. Campfire is bad. 1 out of 2 aint bad I guess. |
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