Comments on: ALL REFLECTIONS DRAINED: XASTHUR IS CERTAINLY NOT WORKING ON HIS TAN THIS SUMMER

By: distant star

distant star — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:56:18 +0000

Dismal is the name of the game. This is just progression. One poster on this msg board said “The drums are so dry and simplistic it sucks the soul out of the whole album.” thats the point to suck all soul out. This is Xasthur.
are you expecting to be uplifted? This is supposed to take you down low. Please remember what your listening to. The whole aesthetic is dismal, bleak, hopeless. With those rules applied this record fucking rips. I love it.

By: Eric Hanson

Eric Hanson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:31:35 +0000

And it’s not an incorrect usage in any case: if he was looking closely enough to find some Xasthur, he was definitely looking through with thoroughness and care.

By: jacko johnson

jacko johnson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:00:43 +0000

It’s odd how everyone complains about the drumming of Xasthur when there was no problem with the drumming on Judas Iscariot’s first few albums and that was 10 times worse!

By: Anger Unmanagement

Anger Unmanagement — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:14:45 +0000

Yeeeeah…… I secretly like Moby. Thought this was the most apropriate place.

By: attackmole@gmail.com

attackmole@gmail.com — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:58:18 +0000

I work at an HMV. We do our best. Really. Shits just kinda hard to sell these days. Archaic unbelievably fucked up backordering system doesn’t help either. When it takes half a year to get a Venom album ordered in, you know you’re in trouble.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:38:45 +0000

dude I have loved everything Xasthur has ever done and I had no doubts this album would rule .
I have to say though ,this album just isn’t doing it for me.
The drums are so dry and simplistic it sucks the soul out of the whole album.
If I am not mistaken this maybe the first album with acoustic drums and I got to to say it does nothing to maintain the standard Malefic has set for Xasthur.
It pains me to say these things about one of my favorite ” bands” of all time but this album is a limp cock in a cold mouth.

By: jackattack

jackattack — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:33:14 +0000

I believe you mean “incorrectly”…

/asshole.

By: Kye

Kye — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:30:33 +0000

“To look over or through in a casual or cursory manner” – taken from the Merriam-Webster definition.

Seems like his use was appropriate to me.

By: Rein

Rein — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:40:31 +0000

“Perused” is used wrongly…please check your dictionary

By: Kye

Kye — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:49:38 +0000

I fucking adored his last two albums…this one just kinda bored me. Like…it wasn’t bad, but a lot like 1349′s new one, it just seemed to lack any sort of bite.