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MANIKIN PARADE

Vangough

 

Progressive Metal

3.47 | 54 ratings

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Marty McFly
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4 stars I don't understand it. First I though that this is another example of hype-hype, to the Uber hype, few early 4-5 star ratings, but result, after wave of unreasonable overlooking of mistakes, sober ones will come and give 2-3 star rating, which this album deserves.

But that's incorrect.

It's not good to do what I described (using extreme terms), but it's also not good to give bad ratings just to counterweight the good ones. That's one of the worst things you can do. But there's another bad one. To see only how this album steals from others, or how pretentious it wants to be. People say about me that I'm paranoid a lot. But isn't this another example of this bad habit, to see mistakes, where there aren't any (at least this type of mistake). I'm not talking to any of previous reviewers, speaking about 2/3 of them, I mostly comply with their opinions (I have almost same with Menswear), but there, I'm not standing against them. I just don't see this grave-robbing thing here. And there are few options now, either there aren't any, there are few of them (sometimes called inspiration), or I hear and understand badly and they're right (little bit of Pulp Fiction inspiration, scene with Jules pedantically teaching Pumpkin).

I like variety here. Indeed, it's prog metal, so it has sticker on it saying "I'm prog metal, but I'm trying to differ as much as possible" and that's perhaps true. Sometimes harder, but mostly running into acoustic field with prominent piano. There are of course worse parts, where it sounds like cliché. But that's inevitable I think. After all, it's 2009 and prog metal is here for years. And you know the saying, that everything was already used in classical music, so rock/metal is just discovering buried and reanimate them again. I don't believe it, nor I believe that this is copy of other's work.

3(+), not strong enough to earn better.

Marty McFly | 4/5 |

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