So here we have 'voodoo'. An album so repetitive and similar sounding, that it will indeed send you into a trance. A trance of complete boredom. The 'songs' all run into one, monotonous dirge with each of the titles sounding as if they have been recorded in the same lazy session.
For me, this may be the worst album on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
I guess this deserves more words on the matter. Being flippant aside: I genuinely can barely stand anything about band. Why? Well...
Everything about this band, and especially this album, reeks of trying too hard. It wants so badly to be the heaviest and doomiest thing ever. Oh boy does it ever try, right down to the ultra fuzzy and dense production job. One of the few things I will give this album credit for: the guitar tone is legitimately pretty great. Too bad it wasn't used for better music.
The riffs on this album are insanely boring. There, I said it. They're HEAVY, sure, but they're completely uninteresting and frankly, not that special or memorable. Pretty much all of them makes me wish I was listening to another doom band instead of blowing over an hour listening to this shit. Speaking of that, this album is fucking long as hell and it does very little to actually being that long. Unlike some other doom bands who made a living off longer songs (the first Cathedral - an obvious influence here - and RevBiz come to mind), this album just drags. EW's pacing skills are absolutely putrid on everything i've heard of them, but none more so than on this album. It just drones on. The distorted vocals here are fucking horrendous to boot.
So sure, yeah, they're heavy. But they do it in the dumbest way possible, and at the end of the day, it matters little if you can't back it up with good songwriting. If anything ever screams 'grossly overrated', this is it.
73 minutes of droning with whispered vocals and no melodies = boring. This may be the most overrated album of all time.
raymondm (RYM user) wrote:
Really boring. I bought this years ago and over the years I've kept trying to like it, but I've come to the conclusion recently that's it's just a well produced yawnfest. Would like my money back but it's not a restaurant I suppose. Agreed that "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House" is a good song. But that doesn't balance out the seemingly prozac inspired blankness and blandness of the rest of it. It's velvet gloved drudgery.
So much potential here, absolutely wasted. One of the laziest executions ive ever heard.
40footwolf wrote:
The buildup is honestly the best part of this album; the eventual rollicking doom epic isn't intense enough to get proper catharsis from and to describe the last 20 minutes or so as "taxing" would be a tremendous understatement-an entire third of the album, reserved for Krautrock-style noodling! Interesting and ambitious, but not one of Boris' finer albums.
Not too fussed about the singles from Squishy's team (besides Gold Panda's excellent 'You'), but that album selection is very good indeed. I don't love Cosmogramma as much as Flying Lotus' other records (even though it's still great), but seeing The Books and Erykah Badu made me smile. Great choices. _________________ 2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
This matchup is extremely even. Nice variety from each team to display the well-roundedness of the year. That Blink 182 single may have sold me on 2000 if I were a 13 year old boy in the peak of puberty, but I dunno what Skinny's tryin' to pull off with that one. _________________ http://jonnyleather.com
This matchup is extremely even. Nice variety from each team to display the well-roundedness of the year. That Blink 182 single may have sold me on 2000 if I were a 13 year old boy in the peak of puberty, but I dunno what Skinny's tryin' to pull off with that one.
Haha! Same thoughts while scrolling through.
How long do we got to vote? I know it's listed somewhere but have pity on me & just tell me already. LOL>
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