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Very cool melodies. Very cool sound. Pity the recording quality is less than perfect.
Perhaps they need to normalize their sound or lower the levels of a couple of instruments on the mixing board when recording, or maybe not play so close to the mic. But in either case the sound is really distorted and noise-like in many places. Often, like in punk, if done as a necessity and haphazardly enough it can give to a really cool basement rock sound. But this is a case where it just came in the way of otherwise cool melodies.
The first single is great, and the recording quality should be the model for other independent musicians here to aspire to. Too often I hear guitar filled songs on here that are killed by sloppy recording setups, even though I know that in real life they must sound amazing. My main complaint with this album is that it's a tad fast to the point of getting exhausting in the second and third track. But you've got a great sound going; with a little development (and some tempo adjustment) it should work out great.
Those three things alone put you in the top 30% of released independent music. That it was interesting musically on top of that puts you in the top 20% percentile. Congratulations. I look forward to any album releases.
The album title means what it says. This album is not just depressing. It's awfully depressing. The lyrics are, as a general rule, offensive or obnoxious to what I consider basic human sensibilities ("Oh, if only I'd beaten her up instead of shot her; then I wouldn't be in prison"? Seriously? Are you on something? If you're not, you probably should be)
The pseudonym concept the artist describes is amusing, I'll give it that, but the whiny, drawn out scrapy voice is painful and far overdone in this album. The song ideas are depressingly what they are. 9/10 of them are just miserable in both emotion and quality (The ballad of Jim Jones is the only song among these able to pull off any sense of irony or interest, as the subject and his fervent last speech brings a sense of piteous but understanding character analysis to the song. Still, it's not something I'd want to listen to often.) The lyrics are slowly cast but there's still too many of them. And the constant insistence on returning nearly every measure to the same handful of minor chords quickly tires the listener.
All in all, if there was one way to make this album better, I'd say it would be to shorten it - a combination of bad lyrics, an album concept with an instant loss of novelty, and overwrought slow-country drawl make it unrecoverable. This album says ten sad songs and it means it in most senses you can think of. I haven't listened to his album Country Gold. It may be better musically, or more positive (from the song titles it looks like it). But this album was such a disappointment (which was actually quite a feat given the album name), that I'm just not going to risk it.
The recording quality isn't so hot. The melodies are cool,tho.
Better microphones or closer proximity; clearer, louder, more powerful singing and playing; even just some upmixing would help out. It feels like the full body of sound of the guitars isn't being captured.
The harmonica playing on 'menina' is actually pretty good sound-wise. As well as the powerful, upswing vocals about a minute and three quarters in.
Right now listening to most of the album is like trying to read under a dim lightbulb.
Lyrics are pretty wacky, except to "Got the Death?" (that is one good song. I'm definitely keeping that); the voices aren't half-bad, and the techno-grooves are very lovely, some of them quite-catchy.
This is kind of fun-loving, but at the same-time regal, organized, and well-executed techno. Sounds mostly synthesized, except for the voice samples, but that doesn't stop it from being very nice. At times, though, it does sound a bit like video game background music, but that's probably instrument choice more than anything else. On a piano backed up with percussion, these melodies would probably do fantastically.
Not to say they don't work here. Although once again, the central instrument choice could be a more subdued one, then the current, sometimes-headache-inducing synth, I like these songs, and most of them are worth a few more listens at least.
I don't know what the above guy who rated this album a 5/10 is talking about. I don't speak Polish, so I can't read his written review, but I don't need to. This album is an 8 minimum.
"Can't escape" bumps it up to a nine. You don't get diesel prog. / grunge / math rock like this on an everyday basis.
I'm giving it a 7 because I don't like death metal, and because the music often had trouble sticking to any few rhythyms, or indeed even the rhythyms it decided upon - they couldn't keep a steady beat. On the other hand, I could stand listening to it.
But 7 is damn good coming from someone who doesn't like death metal. I bet a hardcore death metal fan would probably give it a nine. If this death metal is good enough for someone who does not like death metal to be able to appreciate it, it's pretty damn good. Really, anything that can make someone who has distaste for a genre say "hey, that's pretty good" must be darn good to begin with.
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