The Metal Thread

MusicForFish said:

Pretty stoked for this entry into their library.

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Many, many listens later...

This album really pissed me off after the Phans (loved both dearly). For me, it may even rank below Heliocentric. Front half is blah. Atlantic, Subboreal are OK but still feel weaker than their older output. Parabiosis lyrically scares the shit out of me (doubly so as a biology nerd), so mission accomplished on that track too, I guess. Unconformities feels like a poor man's Cygnus. Album as a whole is too synthy. I understand that they wanted to try writing tracks a different way and that the album is probably intentionally supposed to sound sterile given the themes, but that doesn't really give me any solace.

And Staps bitching about the human condition is wearing really thin on me. Guy's a Nietzsche fanboy, spent two albums critiquing Christianity, and then turns around and does surprisedpika.jpg when he sees we've arrived in Guy Debord's worst nightmare (in his words)/Clown World (in ours). Okay, bro, what is your brilliant synthesis to get us out of this mess? He's better when he leaves things open ended, e.g. Pelagial.