Mike
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Post by Mike on May 4, 2011 19:06:52 GMT
People have always asked us about liner notes in the past, but no-one said anything about them being legible.
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Post by Darkcrawl on May 4, 2011 23:14:48 GMT
Very crafty.... I listened to Tenements on my antiquated computer's surround sound 5.1 speakers with big sub-woofer and I picked up bits and pieces I hadn't noticed so much with headphones, notably the keyboard ambience on the first 5 or so tracks. Things are starting to come together....
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Mike
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Post by Mike on May 5, 2011 1:48:12 GMT
Mwa ha ha etc.
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Post by trauma on May 5, 2011 4:56:19 GMT
People have always asked us about liner notes in the past, but no-one said anything about them being legible.  |
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Post by Darkcrawl on May 5, 2011 12:26:18 GMT
Ooh, a picture. I think this may be a forum first!  |
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Post by diffusion on May 6, 2011 6:54:12 GMT
Received Tenements today... Initially quite impressed as could be expected. 'Ordained' - fucking incredible.
Going to give it another spin tonight. Perhaps a Deleted Scenes.../Urfe/Tenements run through, while appropriately inebriated.
Will post results if living.
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Mike
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Post by Mike on May 6, 2011 17:39:16 GMT
In conceptual terms, Tenements could follow Deleted Scenes OR Urfe. Both the latter albums conclude at the exact same point on the "map" (such as it is) so they're both valid couplings, though obviously Tenements is skewed more towards Urfe. Spinning all three in a row is just masochistic though!
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Post by murayne on May 7, 2011 1:24:15 GMT
Upon first listen I was simply blown away.
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Mike
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Post by Mike on May 11, 2011 0:51:19 GMT
I guess Diffusion must be dead, then. I can only assume he tried to clean himself so frantically after his listening session that he sponged himself out of existence. I'm sure that's how he wanted to go...screaming horribly.
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Post by typhon on May 19, 2011 22:41:03 GMT
Just got it in the mail yesterday along with some free sicmonic CD, very random. The liner notes really helped me paint a vivid, horrifying image inside my head and really helped push on the urfe story (I probably wouldn't have known what happened to mr. urfe after that with just the music).
Also I have to say you guys are real bastards for making the notes half readable with bits and pieces rubbed out, just like the audibility of Leslie during certain parts or Urfe. The lyrics are also pretty scrambled and some aren't even in the right song. I didn't want to have to do this but you've forced me to use a magnifying glass and a decoder ring.
Anyways, great fucking album, hope to see some tabs. I especially loved what you did at the end of disintegration, at first i thought my CD was skipping.
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Post by Nowhere on May 26, 2011 23:12:20 GMT
Finally got my copy. It took a while to arrive. I'm listening to it right now and all I can say is that I'm absolutely impressed. It was worth the wait.
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Post by Darkcrawl on May 27, 2011 22:40:26 GMT
I thought my CD was skipping at first before my mind was gradually dismantled and scattered by that track. Finally sat and read along with the liner notes (only legible in natural daylight it seems, what's that about then?) and I have to say it did slightly enhance the experience for me but I needed contact lenses in which meant eyeball touching with a mostly clean finger. Truly The Axis is a horrific entity.
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Post by Dalihrob on May 28, 2011 8:28:17 GMT
And my copy has been shipped yesterday. Yaaaay... ... ... ... fuck
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Post by St. Mark on May 29, 2011 21:04:17 GMT
I am reluctant, when brilliant artists have released their latest piece of complicated work, to offer an opinion on said work until I have had at least six to sixteen months to consider it. I am however prepared after just a couple of weeks of intense spinning to tentatively suggest that Tenements will ultimately become my second favourite treatment behind PIITSOXTRD. The dramatically chorused Sigils and Portents quickly became my entry point into the record, and I am very excited by the prospect of melting the disc beneath the weight of endless repeats of Disintegration and Ordained towards the end there. (I do get that TOTAF should be listened to from end to end exclusively. I am already not doing this.)
In short, a suspected triumph. I can imagine it bringing back many of the fans you effortlessly shrugged of post Ichneumon, too.
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Post by Darkcrawl on May 30, 2011 20:55:47 GMT
I am reluctant, when brilliant artists have released their latest piece of complicated work, to offer an opinion on said work until I have had at least six to sixteen months to consider it. I am however prepared after just a couple of weeks of intense spinning to tentatively suggest that Tenements will ultimately become my second favourite treatment behind PIITSOXTRD. The dramatically chorused Sigils and Portents quickly became my entry point into the record, and I am very excited by the prospect of melting the disc beneath the weight of endless repeats of Disintegration and Ordained towards the end there. (I do get that TOTAF should be listened to from end to end exclusively. I am already not doing this.) In short, a suspected triumph. I can imagine it bringing back many of the fans you effortlessly shrugged of post Ichneumon, too. So an absolute non-shambles then?! |
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