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i agree. i'm sorry for anyone who feels disappointed with the album but i cannot... CANNOT understand how anyone would think this album is lazy in any way. i was enthralled from start to finish with intricate sound design & textures, beautiful, broad cinematic synths and amazingly crafted rhythm parts. it really sounded to me like they spent a great deal of time on these songs, particularly 'palace posy', 'uritual', 'cold earth' and 'nothing is real'. after listening to TCH i was not impressed at all but it soon grew on me. TH is an instant classic if you ask me and although it might be a bit hasty to say after just one listen, i'd probably put it ahead of geogaddi. gold standard boc.Wonder Spunion wrote:Why does this album have to sound like any album they did before? Why can't BoC just evolve creatively the way THEY want to and make the music THEY want to create? After first listen, I do not think this is a perfect album, but I appreciate it because it's BoC in 2013. This will be the best album released this year by any band, by far, regardless of its few shortcomings. I'm sorry you don't like it, but maybe you need to open your mind, step out of the past, and listen to the sound of NOW. Like I said, it has a few imperfections, but I think the album is very present with it's cold, scary, and chilling sounds. It's in tune.Geodesic wrote:My god, it's was so terrible personally...
Good things, Reach of the Dead, and track 3 (White Cyclosa) sound like a music for the intro of Romero's Day of the Dead.
But the whole album sounded extremly lazy, repetitive, to me, 80 % of the tracks are (bad) interluds, tons of bad synth sounds (they maybe sold their expensive synth because of the financial crisis ?).
It's like Boc wanted to pastiche themselves because of some bad critics about the TCH new sound. Classical old boc synth sound, voices saying numbers....They just add those John carpenter's sequenced synth melody style.
Or if TCH exausted them so much that they wanted to avoid the same complexcity and they just made the album in 4 month, and made every tracks on the album in one day.
Reach of the dead is the best track, and it's the only one that sound like a TCH or trans highway era unreleased track.
Jascquard causeway is a pure, too long, repetive, absurd, ugly nigthmare
The whole thing is like a new old tunes tape, but if it was their first, the most amateur one.
I'm really depressed right now.
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i have to say i'm am enjoying this album a hell of a lot more second time through. it seems the stream i recorded on my mac is way better quality than when i listened to it live on my iphone with headphones. it suddenly came alive!ross adey wrote:i agree. i'm sorry for anyone who feels disappointed with the album but i cannot... CANNOT understand how anyone would think this album is lazy in any way. i was enthralled from start to finish with intricate sound design & textures, beautiful, broad cinematic synths and amazingly crafted rhythm parts. it really sounded to me like they spent a great deal of time on these songs, particularly 'palace posy', 'uritual', 'cold earth' and 'nothing is real'. after listening to TCH i was not impressed at all but it soon grew on me. TH is an instant classic if you ask me and although it might be a bit hasty to say after just one listen, i'd probably put it ahead of geogaddi. gold standard boc.Wonder Spunion wrote:Why does this album have to sound like any album they did before? Why can't BoC just evolve creatively the way THEY want to and make the music THEY want to create? After first listen, I do not think this is a perfect album, but I appreciate it because it's BoC in 2013. This will be the best album released this year by any band, by far, regardless of its few shortcomings. I'm sorry you don't like it, but maybe you need to open your mind, step out of the past, and listen to the sound of NOW. Like I said, it has a few imperfections, but I think the album is very present with it's cold, scary, and chilling sounds. It's in tune.Geodesic wrote:My god, it's was so terrible personally...
Good things, Reach of the Dead, and track 3 (White Cyclosa) sound like a music for the intro of Romero's Day of the Dead.
But the whole album sounded extremly lazy, repetitive, to me, 80 % of the tracks are (bad) interluds, tons of bad synth sounds (they maybe sold their expensive synth because of the financial crisis ?).
It's like Boc wanted to pastiche themselves because of some bad critics about the TCH new sound. Classical old boc synth sound, voices saying numbers....They just add those John carpenter's sequenced synth melody style.
Or if TCH exausted them so much that they wanted to avoid the same complexcity and they just made the album in 4 month, and made every tracks on the album in one day.
Reach of the dead is the best track, and it's the only one that sound like a TCH or trans highway era unreleased track.
Jascquard causeway is a pure, too long, repetive, absurd, ugly nigthmare
The whole thing is like a new old tunes tape, but if it was their first, the most amateur one.
I'm really depressed right now.
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I wasn't waiting something they already made, I was waiting and hoping something new, but this is not new to me, it's full of old boc pastiche,.ross adey wrote:i agree. i'm sorry for anyone who feels disappointed with the album but i cannot... CANNOT understand how anyone would think this album is lazy in any way. i was enthralled from start to finish with intricate sound design & textures, beautiful, broad cinematic synths and amazingly crafted rhythm parts. it really sounded to me like they spent a great deal of time on these songs, particularly 'palace posy', 'uritual', 'cold earth' and 'nothing is real'. after listening to TCH i was not impressed at all but it soon grew on me. TH is an instant classic if you ask me and although it might be a bit hasty to say after just one listen, i'd probably put it ahead of geogaddi. gold standard boc.Wonder Spunion wrote:Why does this album have to sound like any album they did before? Why can't BoC just evolve creatively the way THEY want to and make the music THEY want to create? After first listen, I do not think this is a perfect album, but I appreciate it because it's BoC in 2013. This will be the best album released this year by any band, by far, regardless of its few shortcomings. I'm sorry you don't like it, but maybe you need to open your mind, step out of the past, and listen to the sound of NOW. Like I said, it has a few imperfections, but I think the album is very present with it's cold, scary, and chilling sounds. It's in tune.Geodesic wrote:My god, it's was so terrible personally...
Good things, Reach of the Dead, and track 3 (White Cyclosa) sound like a music for the intro of Romero's Day of the Dead.
But the whole album sounded extremly lazy, repetitive, to me, 80 % of the tracks are (bad) interluds, tons of bad synth sounds (they maybe sold their expensive synth because of the financial crisis ?).
It's like Boc wanted to pastiche themselves because of some bad critics about the TCH new sound. Classical old boc synth sound, voices saying numbers....They just add those John carpenter's sequenced synth melody style.
Or if TCH exausted them so much that they wanted to avoid the same complexcity and they just made the album in 4 month, and made every tracks on the album in one day.
Reach of the dead is the best track, and it's the only one that sound like a TCH or trans highway era unreleased track.
Jascquard causeway is a pure, too long, repetive, absurd, ugly nigthmare
The whole thing is like a new old tunes tape, but if it was their first, the most amateur one.
I'm really depressed right now.
My mind is wide open, I love what is making actually in some part of the synth scene, brand new type of music, but here it's a backward move to me.
BUT I will see if I change my mind in the next days, and maybe i'm totally wrong that's all I hope.
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When the man stopped counting after 6, 7, at Telepath, I knew the album had something and the disappointment faded.Opothecary wrote:Jacquard Causeway is still growing on me but I'm quickly falling in love with the first halfTrans East wrote:Last six tracks..phew. Have to yet understand the first half.
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Yeah it's funny I feel like Telepath is where the album really takes off for me, at least right now. It's like okay...here's Gemini (short BoC album intro, but really good!), Reach for the Dead (Dayvan Cowboy of the album, but really good too!) White Cyclosa (John Carpenter pastiche) Jacquard Causeway (experimental piece) and then BOOM, this album catches on fire.Trans East wrote:When the man stopped counting after 6, 7, at Telepath, I knew the album had something and the disappointment faded.Opothecary wrote:Jacquard Causeway is still growing on me but I'm quickly falling in love with the first halfTrans East wrote:Last six tracks..phew. Have to yet understand the first half.
It's almost the opposite of TCH in a way, where the first 5 tracks are amazing, with 3 or 4 more tracks interspersed afterward that are really good.
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