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That is an all-time-great troll.
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I assume this counts as a review, though it's more of a thinkpiece at times. 4 stars nonetheless.
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They supposedly give more weight to certain review sources when figuring out an overall score, but that's just something I've read elsewhere so maybe it's just a rumor.
And yeah of course, but Metacritic just makes it a lot easier. Though some game reviewing sites are starting to discontinue review scores, which is a trend I wouldn't mind seeing in movies/music.
Yeah I've definitely heard of this being the case for games, so you'd imagine it's similar for music.
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I think it's supposed to be a bit understated and relaxing. I personally really like it, it's very soothing
Yeah in isolation that's fine. I just miss the wannabe-virtuoso piano of earlier albums where it really dominated the songs. It's a big element of their songwriting which has gone completely missing over the last few years.
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The Globalist has some tricky bits but it seems piano is not really high on his 'want to play' list, judging by the way it's been (not) played live.
It's not really prominent, though. It's just sort of there, providing background harmony.
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What's happened to Matt's piano playing in general? Last two albums have had a real lack of the at least technically impressive sounding piano of OOS, Absolution, TR etc.
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The entire bassline of the verses on Megalomania is identical to the opening part of the 1st movement, there's a direct quotation of the 3rd movement's central theme on Butterflies and Hurricanes, Space Dementia obvs
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Well, Muse have done it fine before. Look at the number of clear but not in-your-face Rachmaninoff quotations in their early work - so I don't quite buy that it would be too obscure if they didn't just flat out copy the entire piece.
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What do you mean by that?
Written a piece in the same style, using the same sort of harmonies, melodies etc without actually being... y'know, the same.
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Yeah this is the track which has grown on me the most. The weird structure bothers me less and less the more I get used to it, I suppose.
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Well he did say he was kind of indifferent to it...
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Interesting, those are the opposite comments I would have made about the production in comparison to TR or (especially) BHAR.
Perhaps there were bigger crimes on those albums than the way they were produced which meant they didn't stand out to him, but I'm surprised by that.
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That's neat, but even then that still would have come through if they had just quoted/alluded rather than done a flat-out cover/rearrangement.
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The DiS one is harsh but it's a perfectly legitimate music review, unlike the other one (but we've all commented on that already)
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Forgot about FAWY. Would have been on my list a few years ago.
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it is a typical newsday review (local paper here in metro NY). and yes, he did mistake "psycho" for "drones" but then got "drones" correct at the end. sigh. good score though.
Yeah it's just "what makes it truly succeed, though, is how Muse manages to make each song stand on its own" kinda makes me go "okay... expand on this, please..."
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I read that, got to the last line, assumed that there would be another half to the review after the video, got very confused when there wasn't....
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No particular order other than vague album order, as of right now:
Bliss (live, mainly)
Space Dementia
Citizen Erased
Megalomania
Dead Star
Blackout
Ruled By Secrecy
City of Delusion
The 2nd Law: Isolated System
The Handler
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There's not a single sentence in that review that implies that Ian Cohen hates Muse. He also reviewed The 2nd Law and he gave it a 5.5.
Strongly suspect that he actually quite likes Absolution at a minimum, given that the last line references and links AP in what seems to be a positive (nostalgic?) way.
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Still doesn't make sense. Every other album this year got better rating. Which is obviously a fuck up. How can it be a valid review then?
It's like rating The Dark Knight 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. That would be the same fuck up.
In stunning, stunning news, not all music reviewers like the same things.
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Not sure if it's been posted yet but someone needs to make Matt Bellamy read this http://www.popmatters.com/review/194205-muse-drones/
Most accurate review I've read so far.
The main thing I'm getting out of this is that the reviewer really, really doesn't like Exo.
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So basically Pitchfork implies that every album ever reviewed at their site is better than Drones. You can't say that it is not fuckin bullshit.
If someone is not good at his/her job, should be fired. And why the fuck do they give the task to someone who hates that given band the most?
What on earth? 4.5 is not extremely low for a Pitchfork review. They actually use the entirety of the 10-point scale and have given quite a number of 0.0 reviews.
Never listen to pitchfork's rating system. I've seen albums get practically lauded with a 6.5 and heavily criticized with a 7.I read somewhere that the score and the review are done by different people, not sure if it's true, though.
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He's consistent with that, though. The things he liked about T2l were the patently, deliberately absurd bits such as Panic Station and Survival, which is exactly the sort of stuff the band has cut out in Drones - so it stands to reason that he'd like this less.
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You'd run into the problem that none of the three parts, one their own, have enough to them to hold up as individual songs. Not a criticism, ofc, as it wasn't constructed that way.
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Stunningly, there are other events in peoples' lives which are more important than going to a music festival.