[kj] MMXII first listen:

[Rob Moss]

Wasted chorus though. 
He could have made more of it. 

I'm loving this album so far. 

On 27 Mar 2012, at 05:49, Ketracel White <ketracelwhite at hotmail.com> wrote:


> Don't know that I've ever heard the Joke do a heavy shuffle - "Colony Collapse" kicks Ass!!!

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> On 2012-03-27 04:31:44 +0000 nomeanswhat <nomeanswhat at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> 

>> Having now finished my first spin of MMXII I can say, I do miss Geordie's

>> guitar... sometimes it is way down in the mix, sometimes it doesn't sound

>> like him at all... the times I can actually him playing and the guitar

>> sound is somewhat close to what I expect from him, he does a decent job...

>> still, the album was a bit lackluster in that department to me.

>> My favorite tracks off of it so far are In Cythera and Primobile. I do like

>> Colony Collapse a lot also and Trance would be excellent if not for the

>> excess of keyboards, which is something I feel can be said about most of

>> the songs in MMXII.

>> 

>> There are no tracks I dislike here but, apart from In Cythera, there are no

>> tracks I have immediately fell in love with, no track on MMXII did to me

>> what The Great Cull or Here Comes the Singularity did, or Seeing Red and

>> Total Invasion for that matter, which was to bestow upon me that WOW, THIS

>> IS FUCKING MEMORABLE kind of moment.

>> 

>> So far this is a 7/10 for me... it may change though, for fuck's sake this

>> was just my first spin. Give it more guitar and less keyboard it might have

>> gotten a 9/10 out of me.

>> 

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>> CPJr

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