6 REVIEWS IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 10:18am by Vince NeilsteinSince joining Twitter last week (follow us!) my brain has been systematically reprogrammed to process information only in pieces of 140 characters or less. After the jump, quickie haiku-like reviews of all the new music that’s arrived at the doorstep of the MS Mansion in succinct, Tweet form, plus MP3s! New releases from Mongoloid Village, Mechanism, Irepress, Stinking Lizaveta, Derek Sherinian and Cobalt.
Mongoloid Village - s/t EP [MySpace]
Stoney prog metal with brute force, bludgeoningly Melvins-esque riffs + Cave In atmospherics, all filtered through Deep Purple. Quality!
Mongoloid Village – “Pickled Punk”
(4 out of 5 horns)
Mechanism – Inspired Horrific [MySpace]
Meshuggah/SYLÂ played by dudes who love The Faceless and modern tech-death with plenty of variation and Sikth-style schizophrenia. Hoglan!
Mechanism – “Lobo”
(3.5 out of 5 horns)
Irepress – Sol Eye Sea [MySpace]
Overly ambitious ambient metal that goes nowhere and does so very slowly. Loose production and playing don’t help either.
(2 out of 5 horns)
Stinking Lizaveta – Sacrifice and Bliss [MySpace]
Heady but raw instrumental rawk that succeeds where the above fails. Experimental in all the right ways, too. Clutch on nasty shrooms.
Stinking Lizaveta – “A Man Without a Country”
(3 out of 5 horns)
Derek Sherinian – Molecular Heinosity [MySpace]
Sounds just like Falling Into Infinity-era Dream Theater minus the vocals. Funny how that works. Good enough but unspectacular on the whole.
Derek Sherinian – “Primal Eleven”
(2.5 out of 5 horns)
Cobalt - Gin [MySpace]
Experimental, often ambient but no less crushing black metal. Well-produced, too, from this Denver two-piece. No track names in liner notes.
Cobalt – Track 05
(3 out of 5 horns)
lol…I wish I could do all my reviews like that. Sadly it would make me look a lot smarter than I am.
Is it just me, or did anyone else feel their self-respect go down a notch after joining twitter?
The things I do for the MS guys…
disagleed on irepress…that album is actually incredulously kick ass
what horrible reviews. … the new irepress is verrrrry good.
How about you guys stop being lazy and write some real reviews.
Twitter should be destroyed. These reviews are emblematic of why.
I liked Irepress. very atmospheric sound to it.
also the claps make the album ^^
I will fourth the opinion that contrary to the review, that Irepress album is sweet.
well I guess the originality of this statement has worn off prior to it even being crafted but oh well, here it goes.
I disagree and was in fact quite impressed with the new Irepress album.
I listened to all the songs on the Irepress myspace and I gotta back Vince up on this one. They could learn a lot from listening to Battles – Mirrored.
But, I really stopped by to say that I just picked up the Cobalt album and I just had to write something about how fucking good it is. Definitely pick this up if the review sounds mildly interesting to you. Really impressive for flying relatively under the radar.
I have to Disagree, Irepress is proabably one of the best albums of the year, by far.