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^ I assume you mean this review:

Studio Album, 2013 3.94 | 233 ratings BUY Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep Spock's Beard Symphonic Prog Review by robbob Time to turn? It seems so. Until X we had the traditional modern us symphonic prog rock ...still with Neal Morse impromptu But now ...an important change in vocals participation... Ex Enchant voice is good ...and Enchant was quite a good heavy prog band...but... It seem Enchant ...and in a little less matter ...Darwin s Radio ..was imported.. So then this band is not yet one of the most important symphonic prog rock bands of the us.. This is no more symphonic prog ...this is a heavy prog rock band in the line of Enchant and Darwin s Radio... I really didn, t like so much this changes... 3 stars Send comments to robbob | Report this review (#963820) Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 10:31 EST | Review Permalink | Submit a review for this album

I think it's valid even if not very informative. We have members from all over the world and most of them are not English native speakers (in this particular case the author of the review is from Chile) so their English command may be limited. But that does not mean we should prevent them from expressing their views!


Edited by Tuzvihar - May 22 2013 at 19:22

I think that review is fine.  The English is broken but the reviewer still conveys the basic ideas ok.  This is not a professional review site, it's a community, and we're going to have varying levels of ability across our reviewers.

Originally posted by claugroi http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=868870 This review seems quite inappropriate to me. <span style="color: rgb51, 51, 51; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Giving a one-star rating (as well as a 5-star one) is a huge responsability and something that must be done with conscience. The reviewer doesn't seem to do it with responsability. It looks as though he was angry with the album (and/or the band) and with the site and just did the first thing that came to his furious mind. </span><span style="line-height: 1.2;">He even states "</span><span style="color: rgb51, 51, 51; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">I don't care about YES".</span> <span style="color: rgb51, 51, 51; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"></span> <span style="color: rgb51, 51, 51; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Appart from this, he also supports his whole review based on a Hackett quote and criticises quite harshly Prog Archives for something that is rather subjective, merely his individual opinion.</span> <span style="color: rgb51, 51, 51; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"></span> <span style="color: rgb51, 51, 51; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Please, people, read the whole review clicking on the link and judge by yourselves.</span> <span style="color: rgb51, 51, 51; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"></span> <span style="color: rgb51, 51, 51; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Thanks.</span>

Everyone has a right to their own opinion, however I too agree with Claugroi above. In my opinion too, this is certainly not a review, it says nothing about the album itself, the music in terms of its concept thus instrumentals, vocals or lyrics. My perception of any review is to describe in an articulate manner how the album might sound to the reader or prospect buyer (or to oneself in terms of personal taste, again in an articulate manner), depending on its purpose it may be bias or objective. This one clearly cannot be considered a review, which obviously does not describe the album.
This new album is not a favourite of mine either, plus I can’t get beyond the fact that John Anderson is not singing on it, however it is certainly prog. Not my fav album of theirs however - The Man You Always Wanted me to Be is a great track none-the-less.
hugs to everyone

For the album "Un Milione di Voci" by the band Periferia Del Mondo, the band itself has posted an "auto-review" (whatever that is?) with a 4 star rating.  If I'm reading things right, it is review #32198 (http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=32198).

I'm not arguing against the rating, but it seems inappropriate to me for a band to post a review of their own album, and for any sort of "auto-reviews" to be generated.  Reading this specific "review," it really seems to me to be just a promotional posting.