Right today I'm going to do something different, I was just planning on starting this review when I had a conversation with Roshan on MSN about this album, I feel that it included all of my opinions on the album and so I'm going to copy and paste it into here. I hope you all don't mind.Matt says:
i dont think i've ever hated anything more
Roshan says:
?
Roshan says:
!
Matt says:
pdon?
Roshan says:
Serious
Matt says:
yes
Roshan says:
Loved it.
Matt says:
its mediocre
Matt says:
average rock/metal with stupid vocals
Roshan says:
In what way, have you ever heard such a fusion of sound before?
Matt says:
it sounds like its a gimic
Matt says:
it is a gimic
Roshan says:
no no no no... geniunily amazing combination of genres, with an awesome voice. I take it you don't listen to a great deal of reggae/ jamaican singers?
Matt says:
i dont but i do like reggae
the little of it i've heard
but the whole metal/rock side of it is rubbish
Roshan says:
Have you heard tarantular by Pendulum, they have like a Jamacian MC to drum and bass, pretty amazing.
Matt says:
not to mention the vocals just not working with this music
Matt says:
yeah thats good
it fits in perfectly with the music
this doesnt at all
Roshan says:
I felt it added an special kind of aggresion not normally found in Metal/rock. It was harder hitting, more powerful.
Roshan says:
Especially in the first two tracks
Matt says:
i'm finding its taking away the agression
making it sound silly
Matt says:
i cant take this seriously
Roshan says:
OK
Roshan says:
I get it now.
Matt says:
im thinking of posting this discussion as part of my review
Roshan says:
right
Roshan says:
well
Roshan says:
basically, for you its probably like...
...Like listening to foreign music for the first time around your friends, say your forced to listen to it in some seminar or what ever. You start giggling, poking fun at it and overall, doing things to make yourself feel less embarrased. Thats the kind of reaction your having to this sound.
Roshan says:
...like a chav to culture...
Matt says:
no i dont think i am
it is just a poor album
Matt says:
i've heard fusions of different genres before and i think that this could possibly work, i mean anything could work if its done correctly
but skindred does not work
Matt says:
its a failed attempt in my eyes
So overall I could not stand this album, especially on the more heavier songs where the vocals suited the song even less. The vocalist sounds like a cartoon character sterotype of a Jamaican man. On a track like The Fear they actually become tolerable because they aren't trying to be so hardcore and are forcing this botched fusion of genres on the listener.
Therefore I have to give this album 1/5
...like a chav to culture...
ReplyDeleteI didn't think this convo review would work out, but it has. ^^
Ah good xD
ReplyDeleteI won't be doing it again though, I should really have put more effort into it.
Matt this is exactly why I hate them too. The first thing i said to Dan was that it was an awful gimmick.
ReplyDeleteJury's still out on whether we're telepathically linked.
ReplyDeleteThis is cheating. But I do like this review.
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