[kj] MMXII first listen

[Darren Peace]

The more I listen, the more I'm inclined to agree. This album is
magnificent.

Darren
Hungerford, UK

On 28 Mar 2012, at 12:38, Bob Barathy <bbarathy at btinternet.com> wrote:

  Really!? I think this album could well be their best since Extremities

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I think it's fair to say that MMXII is not as good as Absolute Dissent.















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From: gregslawson at msn.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:43:20 -0400
Subject: Re: [kj] MMXII first listen

 You're right about similarites of some new songs to older ones (like the
Glitch part taken from Intravenous/Majestic) but you'll see w/many bands
that have been around for a while that they repeat
themselves. Even amazing songwriters like the guys from Husker Du (check
'em out if you weren't around the US underground scene in the mid 80s) or
the Minutemen were repeating themselves on their last couple of albums.

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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:09:17 +0200
From: spooman at freenet.de
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] MMXII first listen

Thanks for the links and the nice way of pointing out that there might be
one. "Anyone feeling ambitious can check Bunalti, Torrentzap, Bitsnoop etc.
and let us know what they find." hehehe.
Not to worry, although I haven't preordered it yet, I'll buy the Single(s),
Vinyl and CD - and shall do so quite happily. I  like the gloomy EDVREish
atmosphere of "Pole Shift", "Fema Camp" and "Corporate Elect". "Trance" is
the only one, that hasn't had any effect on me so far and "Colony Collapse"
and Glitch would be other favs.
I'm very fond of the different atmos The Joke create on every single album
- I think they really *rock* in a dark way on MMXII - but I'll have to
admit that I'm a bit dissapointed by a certain sloppiness songwriting-wise.
That one part of "Glitch" is very similar to "Majestic" AND "Intravenous",
isn't it? And "Corporate Elect" isn't really something entirely different
from "MINOG". I like them nevertheless...
Isn't it funny, how of all bands the Joke  seem to have no difficulty in
writing erm touching songs on a regular basis, that once would have been
filed under the gruesome term "ballad"? :-)

Marcel

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