Alec Ferris
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I'm still not convinced of the Wake Up/Reapers breakdown being "apocalyptic". Maybe I've been desensitised, but it just doesn't seem powerful enough on Reapers to warrant that description.
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I was going to say that Drones seems to have too much of a happy tone, but I think you guys might be over-analysing a bit. Also Simon, your posts in here tend to have a rather hectoring tone. Yeah Bumpy was a bit bolshy above, but I see this stuff from you all the time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebpuPMWL2T8
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Bumpy was saying recently he'd like Matt to do something like the Fury Road soundtrack.
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Because a supergroup project is different to a side project.
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Doesn't mean it's not a possibility. Particularly if Matt wants a dalliance with styles that he didn't want to have on this album.
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I imagine it's like a black coffee enema for the uninitiated. Straight from the pot. I'm at the stage I had to work to with Converge as well, finding individual refrains and riffs that really stick with me now.
BTW, are you into your post-metal/rock at all? Minsk, A Swarm of the Sun and Hubris' albums are easily my favourites from that area so far this year.
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Hey, have you checked out The Armed's new album yet? I reckon it'll probably be in my top 10 for this year
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I just found that, while the sound might be present and correct, the substance isn't.
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My overall argument was about the album itself, but the last couple of pages have veered between The Handler and Reapers after my stumble earlier.
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Oh come on, it's nowhere near as weird or potent as Space Dementia, or Fury for that matter (just because two songs sound like they could be from the same album, doesn't mean they're on a par- witness the many, many latter-day Sepultura and Soulfly songs which sound like they could have been from Roots or Chaos AD). SD still sounds weird 14 years later, The Handler sounds like Muse deep in their comfort zone, running on autopilot. I'm not saying it doesn't sound at all like them.
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My point is more that you don't listen to it and just think they're doing a homage, any more than you hear Wake Up and think Rage are just doing a lazy Led Zep tribute. Both Wake Up and Hyper Music are potent enough on their own that the idea doesn't even spring to mind. Whereas The Handler doesn't seem to really earn that breakdown, it seems rather tacked-on to me.
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To my ears, it doesn't have that vitality. Partly because of the slicker sound, but also the playing.
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Well, I meant The Handler, and that was simply an example of Muse not incorporating influences as seamlessly as they have in the past. Aside from that, the riffs are mostly bog-standard hard rock.
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Those songs clearly bear Rage's influence, but there it's integrated into a sound which is entirely Muse's. You wouldn't say Micro Cuts or Dead Star are just them "doing an RatM".
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Listen to Reapers, then listen to Freedom by RatM. You'll hear it. Say it first, then My brother and I have disagreed a lot over this album, so my arguments are very well-rehearsed.
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Because it strips things back to relative basics and is fairly tame for Muse, Drones doesn't have much to compensate for its lyrical weaknesses. Plus, there isn't really enough drama to carry the concept in my opinion.
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Well, there simply isn't the looser, more frenetic feel you get on Hyper Music or Stockholm Syndrome, for example. The Drones stuff feels very reined-in and is much less inventive in my opinion. It also lacks a lot of the grandeur which they've evoked on past albums, and too many songs ape either their influences (considering that they've integrated that of RatM, it's baffling to hear such a blatant homage on The Handler) or older songs. By way of comparison, the new Foals track feels much less restrained and is therefore a lot more fun, as well as having better lyrics.
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Hey, how are the adventures in post-rock going? Or were those Dave's adventures? Anyway, how's tricks?
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Someone like Terry Date might be a good fit. He produced White Pony, after all.
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I'd say that we've ended up with what I was worried Lange's involvement might lead to. A rather by-numbers rock album without much of the flair I'm used to from Muse's rockier work. Not that I really put that down to his involvement.
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The "show me mercy from the powers that be" lyric still irks me on a proper-use-of-words level.
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would probably help. I need to give it an earphones listen, I think. Blasted it in the car today, twice in a row. -
I see. I just figured that was backing vocals- haven't got any half-decent ear/headphones at the moment.
It's definitely worth a repeat or two. Been singing the breakdown refrain from Polarizer for the last couple of days.
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Clearly my speakers don't show that stuff up very well. Kinda disappointed by that.
It's a smart attack, too. It's the little flourishes that clinch it for me, particularly that "leave the scraps! Leave the scra-aa-aaps!" in Polarizer.
would probably help. I need to give it an earphones listen, I think. Blasted it in the car today, twice in a row.