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(on both points). 9/10 if not even higher, it's fucking awesome, proper awe as well, awe at the fact that they came back after 14 years and a dead singer and made something this good. who else has done that?? one of the best things I've heard this year.

"half hoped this would be mike patton/jesus lizard thing"

...it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(album)

I was just presenting some evidence to say it's not shit. I really like it, one of my favourite Mogwai songs actually. The album's great, but it's kind of simmering away at the point that 'Sun' starts with it's weird, sharp noise and kind of wakes you up a bit. It's definitely not shit, that's too harsh. Pussycat Dolls are shit, for example.

third most-listened to Mogwai song on lastfm over the last 7 days, so evidently Mogwai fans, at least those with some kind of scrobbler, don't think it's shit...

I've ever been to, they did an encore (which they never do, well, never in the 18-odd times I've seen them), and played Hope For An Angel. Amazing.

only 6/10? Nothing in the review points towards this getting such a mediocre score. Odd.

at being bland!! and rubish live!!!

A year where that Los Campesinos album features in so many top 5s is a bad year for music!

Of albums released this year, I've paid most attention to:
Why?
Sigur Ros
The Gutter Twins
Boris
Grand Archives
Say Hi!

this thread's given me a few names to check out though, which might swing my opinion.

Icelandic Post-Rock Weekly?

doesn't it make you sterile or something? Or is that measles? Or shingles? Something like that anyway.

I was having to decide between seeing them in Manchester and going to get pissed at Keswick Beer Festival and seeing a Showaddywaddy tribute act. (sad but true. be warned younger Dissers, this is what happens when you hit 30...)

I've never ever seen someone miss the point so completely.

has it been selling out instantly for though? Last few years? 5? Since 1975?

I'm not sure but before indie/guitar type music went fully mainstream about 5 years ago, it never used to sell out straight away did it? Same with Reading, you could get tickets right up to the date.

I could be totally wrong with this.

accurate score. (Although it's a 10 for me, perfect from start to finish)! Nice

of the albums in the writers top 25 I hadn't heard that I've now heard (Animal Collective, Panda Bear and others), I don't like any of them.

Of the albums in Rock Sounds top 25 I hadn't heard before that I've now heard, I like all of them, Mewithoutyou's Brother, Sister and Baroness's The Red Album being particularly good.

When I saw the writer's list, the first thing I though was 'wow, this has been a really shit year for music that I like'. It hasn't, there's been loads of good stuff, not much of it's on this list though.

the stupid ongs about bulldogs, I love the way they get weirder and more distorted with each version. I also love this album, it's my favourite Buttholes album by a mile!

why even bother reviewing it if by your own admission you've not even listened to the album all the way through? Fucking worthless.

but the spoken word track totally kills it in the middle.

'Virtute...' (I'm sure the cat was called Virtue on Reconstruction Site?) is brilliant though, album highlight I reckon.

but a quick scan of this has made me lose all respect for Simon Pegg (well, any remaining respect, after that Fatboy film..).

you pay some designer to do the old layout, Simon Meninihck or something? Has he had anything to do with this new design?

as the last two, but yeah it's good. The second half is way better than the first (shitty spoken-word track aside).

Leonard Cohen, followed by Juliette Lewis killing some redneck, followed by L7's Shitlist. Fantastic. Definitely the best soundtrack album, I reckon.

seriously. Nice work.

but he never sings the line 'spare me the fucking suspense', does he. which makes you wonder how often the reviewer listened to this before submitting his review.

the point of this song: about 3 points. bland rubbish

the point of this review: about zero points. surely noone who reads DiS cares about this song, so you telling us it's average really is inconsequential. how about using the time to to review one of the pile of albums DiS readers might care about a review for, that you lot have ignored recently. Hell Is For Heroes new one? Super Furries?

accurate score. job's a good'un.

Faith No More. With Jim Martin.

you review Hell Is For Heroes?

absolutely hate it, it actually winds me up when I'm listening to it to the extent I ripped it out the car CD player and threw it into the boot while I was driving home last night. "Sam Cooke, draw back your bow-oah"...Fuck off.

But, on the strength of this review I'm going to stick with it a bit longer, I've been wrong about a few albums this year already (hated Era Vulgaris when i first heard it, and I love it now). Maybe if I skip the first 6 tracks it'll give the rest a chance to shine through, or something.

that was the exact point that I realised, after mildly disliking a lot of their stuff, that I actually really hated Ash. Trailer and about half of 1977 were okay, but it was all shit, badly sung, badly played throwaway punk-lite RUBBISH from then on.

I'm happy they've split, they should've done it ages ago.

on this album, I hated it when I first heard it, it sounded dull, samey, repetitive. However, a bit of perseverance and it's now up there with the albums of the year for me (well, up to the end of 3's and 7's anyway, the last 4 tracks are massively skippable, but maybe I haven't listened to them enough yet). Misfit Life's the highlight, with Into The Hollow, I'm Designer, 3's, and Sick all close behind.

The chorus sounds exactly like a Red Hot Chili Peppers chorus. Not a specific Chilis song, just the general sound, and how it changes musically from the verse to the chorus.

to your 1st and 3rd points. And your closing argument.

feed her sugarlumps? compliment her on her mane and tail? strap a saddle on her and do gymkhana?

another album review on DiS that I totally disagree with. "Too much shouting". Have you even heard any of their other albums?? That's like berating Pelican for having too much riffing.

she didn't win anything not more to do with the fact she's SHIT and has a horrible reedy little voice?

"Craig's voice struggles in the ranges between a shout and a whisper"

I don't think I've ever disagreed with anything posted on this website more than I disagree with that statement!

8 seems too low for this album.

And (this is going to sound meaner than I intend it to), I think it deserves a Mike Diver/ Dom Gourlay-type 'feature' review, considering it's one of the best albums of last year.

I think this is one of the better songs on it, to be honest. If the whole album sounded like this song I'd hate it, but as a one-off 'pop' song (like Blind Pilots off the last one) it's really good. Similarly, I'd have hated the album if it all sounded like Homo Sapiens. The album's fantastic due to there being so many different styles of song on it.

The 'trademark raspy Gautrey vocals' have gone to the other tracks on the album, cuz this one's sung by the guitarist...

I'm gonna disagree with the score and a lot of the points you've made, but it's really well written!
Connect is AMAZING. They should have called this song 'the result of us touring with The Cure' and had done with it. The first 6 songs on this album are the equal of anything they've done before, and if they've lost anything because of Didz leaving it's their tendency to descend into light prog and let songs overrun into the 7-8minute mark when they really don't need to.

I love this band, I have for as long as they've been about (although not to the extent I've got a TCTC-related username..!) and this is their best album, I reckon. There's only one song I don't think is brilliant, and that's the country one that I'm sure noone likes, even the band (Take Comfort).

Best songs: Homo Sapiens for it's ferocity, Head and All I See Is You for sounding like lost classics from the 80s synth pop era, and Waiting Game for being the greatest alt-rock pop song I've heard for years. I'd give the album 10 if I could be arsed to review it properly...!

The quality of the writing on DiS veers wildly between excellent and embarassingly bad, but this is firmly in the former camp. Nice. Too good to be credited to some daft psuedonym anyway!

Can't wait to see Aereogramme in Februaury, they're my 'most favourite band I've not seen live yet' and I need to remedy that soon. The new album's brilliant.

looking at your list of 'bands I like and don't like', what are you even doing reviewing this? It's a waste of your time and ours, surely? Surely the job of a good reviews editor is to get reviewers to write about stuff they at least are going to be able to comment on constructively, as opposed to people predisposed to not liking the record and producing amateur-sounding, throwaway pieces of rubbish like this?

Pink Cellphone, personally. Up to the rubbish bit it's a nice bit of Team Sleep-y electronica. It's better than the instrumental track, or Mein, which is really dull.

Deftones aren't nu-metal are they? I thought only idiots tagged them as that, even during it's heyday.

The World is the best SFA album by miles and miles and miles. Love Kraft is terrible.

And I can't believe Biffy Clyro lost their place because of a joke vote thread that attracted 28-odd votes. And I expected 100 Broken Windows to be in the top 10. Maybe at 3 or something. And Busted and McFly? Fucking hell, that explains a lot...

Slipknot and Disturbed. That difference being quality.

sure I could paste lyrics from any Disturbed song on here to highlight the ridculousness of the statement 'David Draiman is a talented lyricist'.

What is M.O.L?

Grammar has no 'e' in it. Unless you're talking about the Frasier actor?

Americans refer to bands as a single item rather than a group of people. For example, "Disturbed is the most terrible band of an era that produced other such terrible bands as Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach".

bullshit

"Scratch my itch
Give me your power glowing, juicy flowing red hot, meaning of life
It's not enough to have a little piece
I want the whole damn thing now
Can you dig it?"

fucking idiot

nice album. good stuff.

too many tracks where Keith talks, not enough rapping. There's only about 3 songs where he attempts to rap, the rest of the time, he sounds like Mike Patton on the Lovage album, not a bad thing as such, but I wanted a followup to 'Earth People' and 'I'm Destrucive'.

Even Kool Keith doesn't like this album, or acknowledge it as a proper Dr Octagon album, and he's nuts.