part 3 of You must listen to the album below you:canon edition
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Mercury 
- Chart updated: 07/02/2022 01:15
- (Created: 03/15/2022 16:51).
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This is a pretty kickass 22 minute japanese hardcore album. The star of the show is the vocals, both when solo and especially when the group screams and shouts come in (which is often). The bass work is cool and surprisingly accentuated. The riffs are basically a non-stop barrage of hardcore punk energy. The drumming is cool. The whole album is just super SUPER high energy and very pissed off and crusty. And the guitarist even manages to fit in some red hot solos into the album.
Overall, this was cool. I haven't explored Japanese Hardcore before and I think I maybe will now based off this album. I don't understand a word of it as I don't speak the language and even if I did I never understand the lyrics when shouted or screamed. But I can FEEL the passion here.
It is a bit one note (as can be expected from hardcore punk) and the production is perhaps a bit too muddy and not quite as defined as I would like it - like it doesn'yt have much punch. This can also be expected from an underground hardcore punk album. So, not a masterpiece in my opinion. But every instrument and member of the band shines at times here and I enjoyed it. [First added to this chart: 03/15/2022]
Overall, this was cool. I haven't explored Japanese Hardcore before and I think I maybe will now based off this album. I don't understand a word of it as I don't speak the language and even if I did I never understand the lyrics when shouted or screamed. But I can FEEL the passion here.
It is a bit one note (as can be expected from hardcore punk) and the production is perhaps a bit too muddy and not quite as defined as I would like it - like it doesn'yt have much punch. This can also be expected from an underground hardcore punk album. So, not a masterpiece in my opinion. But every instrument and member of the band shines at times here and I enjoyed it. [First added to this chart: 03/15/2022]
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I have been away awhile. Not sure why this album, after a couple listens , didn't really move me. The sound is shambolic and punk rock while mixing some seriously technical playing especially in the drums and some very very creative genre/sound/stylistic mixing - some parts were just brutal emoviolence - a lot were - and some parts sounded almost like some gnarly abstract avant garde death metal stuff. The vocals were not great and I guess this is the main thing that didn't work for me. This style of screamo/emo vocals - sort of a constant barrage of screaming with a distinct almost crying/wailing dissonance - is just mostly miss and less often a hit for me and the vocalist here doesn't do it for me.
The album is intense and creative and admirable. Its 19 minutes of unadulterated and brutally intense and violent screamo wildness. For those perhaps a bit more into the style, this shit may blow you away. Not my fave.
The album is intense and creative and admirable. Its 19 minutes of unadulterated and brutally intense and violent screamo wildness. For those perhaps a bit more into the style, this shit may blow you away. Not my fave.
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Okay, so this album absolutely kicked my ass today. After starting the album 3 or 4 times and each time being 1. absolutely in love with the first track, "A Private Understanding", and 2. being interrupted by work or life each time, I FINALLY gave this a full listen today. Loved it and then listened again. And then again. Each time through I was more and more smitten.
Prior to this album I had heard Protomartyr's very very good 2020 album Ultimate Success Today. I thought that was a cool take on noisy post punk. Similar to this album from 2017, I liked it more each time through. But I can't say that album ever quite clicked with me as much as Relative In Descent.
As for what I liked about this album, well basically everything. I love the very National-esque vocals even more than I like the vocals on National albums. The vocals are less deep and up front and more varied and dark and engaging. Not saying the dude from The National is bad, quite the contrary, but this shit is just cooler. Why am I going on about another band? idk.
The bass work and the thick and melodic and badass bass parts all through this record were consistently fantastic and really some of my fave bass work in a rock album I've heard in awhile.
The drums were good, probably the part that least caught my ear, but they never are distracting and are always sounding crisp and excellent.
The Guitars are perhaps the main feature. The swirling, noisy riffs, the feedbacky explosions, the post punky minor key vibes, the way they create such cool and sometimes haunting atmospheres and other times explode in a cathartic but never out-of-control way... just superb guitar work through out.
The songwriting and the structures of the songs and the whole album is amazing. The changes and the way each part works with the others in each song and also how all the songs are stitched together all culminating with one of the best closing tracks I have heard in awhile, "Half Sister".
The production is great and yeah really like I said I think everything about this is great. Some of the lyrics at times don't hit the mark. But mostly even the lyrics are evocative and poetic and excellent.
The track highlights are tough because its incredibly consistent. The ones that jump out at me as I read off the tracklist now are the the opening and closing tracks (these mirror each other and work off each beautifully and makes it almost impossible not to instantly push play again when the album ends.). Other best tracks to my mind as of now: "My Children", "The Chuckler", "Don't Go To Anacita", and "Corpses in Regalia".
This is an album that deserves many more listens and it will get many more listens. This is truly incredible. It vaults to #1 on my 2017 chart. That's how much I clicked with everything here. And Purplepash mentioned this isn't his fave Protomartyr and I see many others have a lot of love for some of their other LPs. So I think I may be in for a real treat when I relisten to this many times, their 2020 albums several times and then work backwards from there.
4.5/5
Prior to this album I had heard Protomartyr's very very good 2020 album Ultimate Success Today. I thought that was a cool take on noisy post punk. Similar to this album from 2017, I liked it more each time through. But I can't say that album ever quite clicked with me as much as Relative In Descent.
As for what I liked about this album, well basically everything. I love the very National-esque vocals even more than I like the vocals on National albums. The vocals are less deep and up front and more varied and dark and engaging. Not saying the dude from The National is bad, quite the contrary, but this shit is just cooler. Why am I going on about another band? idk.
The bass work and the thick and melodic and badass bass parts all through this record were consistently fantastic and really some of my fave bass work in a rock album I've heard in awhile.
The drums were good, probably the part that least caught my ear, but they never are distracting and are always sounding crisp and excellent.
The Guitars are perhaps the main feature. The swirling, noisy riffs, the feedbacky explosions, the post punky minor key vibes, the way they create such cool and sometimes haunting atmospheres and other times explode in a cathartic but never out-of-control way... just superb guitar work through out.
The songwriting and the structures of the songs and the whole album is amazing. The changes and the way each part works with the others in each song and also how all the songs are stitched together all culminating with one of the best closing tracks I have heard in awhile, "Half Sister".
The production is great and yeah really like I said I think everything about this is great. Some of the lyrics at times don't hit the mark. But mostly even the lyrics are evocative and poetic and excellent.
The track highlights are tough because its incredibly consistent. The ones that jump out at me as I read off the tracklist now are the the opening and closing tracks (these mirror each other and work off each beautifully and makes it almost impossible not to instantly push play again when the album ends.). Other best tracks to my mind as of now: "My Children", "The Chuckler", "Don't Go To Anacita", and "Corpses in Regalia".
This is an album that deserves many more listens and it will get many more listens. This is truly incredible. It vaults to #1 on my 2017 chart. That's how much I clicked with everything here. And Purplepash mentioned this isn't his fave Protomartyr and I see many others have a lot of love for some of their other LPs. So I think I may be in for a real treat when I relisten to this many times, their 2020 albums several times and then work backwards from there.
4.5/5
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| 1980s | 2 | 13% | |
| 1990s | 4 | 27% | |
| 2000s | 6 | 40% | |
| 2010s | 3 | 20% | |
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| Think Again | 1 | 7% | |
| Human Remains | 1 | 7% | |
| Assück | 1 | 7% | |
| Lord Snow | 1 | 7% | |
| Erykah Badu | 1 | 7% | |
| Today Is The Day | 1 | 7% | |
| Elliott Smith | 1 | 7% | |
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| Solitude by Lord Snow |
| Sadness Will Prevail by Today Is The Day |
| Dogma by Asterisk* |
| Vengeance by Tragedy (2000s) |
| Relatives In Descent by Protomartyr |
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