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Nekropsi - Aylık / Monthly CD (album) cover

AYLıK / MONTHLY

Nekropsi

 

Progressive Metal

1.10 | 2 ratings

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DangHeck
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1 stars I'm just gonna jump into it. This is Turkish band Nekropsi's fourth studio album (2013). [Is this just me going through the motions? I feel less for this band the deeper I go haha. I feel even worse now...]

"Aralik" is our opener, a spacy extended jam with light percussion and airy synths. Hmmm though... "4/4" is in fact in 4/4. The guitar riffs, which flow within and without one another (in almost a KC-like fashion), are pretty cool. Some sorta funky bass, too. But the track at large didn't do much for me. "Daphnis" is sample city, but with this really harsh click-track-like sound [You'll be hearing about this a lot in this review...]. As with the two that preceded, very spacy, very unidirectional: boring to me, to be honest. "Dedikodu (Canli / Live)" is a track that they ended up releasing as a studio single 5 years later. It's a lot of vocal rounds using the various vocalizations of the title's syllables. It reminded me of... that one from... Battles? Or... was it And So I Watch You From Afar?... Oh(!), it's "Ka Ba Ta Bo Da Ka" by the latter (ASIWYFA). But yeah, also boring [unlike that song].

Up next is "Pusula", a pulsating number with crunchy guitar. Best ideas on the album thus far. Then it's "Rüzgarlar", equally pulsing, using that sort of click-track sound... to an annoying effect. There's guitar haha. That's for sure. Nothing happens... The annoying clicking continues on "Istanbul'a Dönüs" (sorry I only know so many alt-keys for special characters and I'm deathly lazy for this one). Much cooler guitar on this. It is a return to the spacy hypnosis of the earliest tracks. Then we have "++++" and the plastic drums sound just awful... So loud... Some interesting guitar ideas; the guitarist is more than decent. It's just that there's, like, no songwriting or... anything I want to listen to here haha.

Coming to the close of this album... "Okonomiyaki" is next. Another guitar loop that reminds me of latter-days KC. But guess what? Nearly nothing happens at all... The annoyance of whatever the hell drum sh*t they're using throughout here continues on "Kis Kis", a barrage of percussion. Sh*t cuts in and out in a hectic, though clearly intentional manner here. Hmmm I have nothing nice to say. Finally (and I mean it), "Corba". This is one of the better tracks on here. Still spacy. Still using some annoying clicking something rather. But cool guitar and bass ideas. Overall, very not it...

True Rate: 1.25/5.00

DangHeck | 1/5 |

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