Collaborator/experts reviews

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: And funny you single out that particular Tangent album, because it was literally the next review I planned to post (had it written for a week now), and it's up there now! But seriously, from the Collaborator Activity point of view, (and I don't know if others share the same ideas here) it comes down to a lot of things for me personally. Pretty much a winning combination of listening to an album enough times to really get to know it (not belting out a review while I'm listening to it the first time), finding enough creative inspiration to actually get the effort of writing a few paragraphs going... Also, it's very easy for the busier reviewers to simply...burn out. A mix of being at it too much, seeing their efforts on the front page washed away in an hour by an overexcited string of freaking Dream Theater reviews or simply hitting that dreaded `writers block' that can take a little bit of time to snap out of...lots of things that brings momentum crashing down. I work for the Italian Prog team on the Archives here, so I feel in many ways it is my responsibility to be getting to reviews quickly of the latest Italian releases, but lately the two big suppliers of Italian albums, AMS/BTF and Black Widow Records, have put their shipping prices up to such absurd amounts (34 Euro for between 2-4 CD's?!) is such a total dealbreaker that I often have to wait (in some case many weeks or even months) until other worldwide vendors get the titles in that have much more reasonable and affordable postage costs. In other words, albums I would like to be getting to much quicker and bringing attention to doesn't really happen as fast as I'd like, or as fast as the albums and artists deserve. (Also, down here in Australia it's the middle of a stinking hot summer, and I don't have air conditioning, so often sitting at a computer in a heat-addled daze is the LAST thing I want to be doing! )

 

The site has been taken over by the pan-heads...Proxy has some sublime moog solos. And not a cacophony of dying animals with stupid red indian chanting mixed in...avant garders Just dont like anything that resembles music. or music not written by stoned smack heads...

M27Barney wrote: The site has been taken over by the pan-heads...Proxy has some sublime moog solos. And not a cacophony of dying animals with stupid red indian chanting mixed in...avant garders Just dont like anything that resembles music. or music not written by stoned smack heads...

Taken over? We've hardly started yet, but it's work in progress. In six months we'll have got the name changed to Pan Head Archives, purged the symph-loving collabs, and deleted the entire Neo Prog sub-genre. That's right: all the artists, all the albums, all the reviews - Neo Year Zero. Best start caching your faves now.

I'd missed Barney's insightful posts.

dr wu23 wrote: Pan heads...? LOL...what is that..?

 

Yes!
Let the new dawn begin!
The Pan-head age has arrived.
That's too hard to say. Let's call it the Pan-Era. Artichoke soufles and croissants for all.

^I don't know if we can pull off our stuff live. May need to just be support studio musician.

The Pan-Sessionals!

Back to the OP.

I did listen to The Tangent - Proxy uninterrupted today. Some really enjoyable compositions. Way more interesting than the previous album. Unfortunately I find the vocals to be extremely awkward.