Reviews reporting thread

Neither irony, or seriously meant offering. Well, he's not admin, so he can just propose, suggest, not offer, but still. I'm confused too.

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ok, deleted, no need to duplicate things.

Now, seriously. I DO like some Modern Prog, which is close to being not Prog at all, like COHEED AND CAMBRIA, DREDG or A PERFECT CIRCLE. But this is just beyond me. An alternative rock clone to QUEEN? Like MUSE, but worse? 3 (THREE) with cabaret? When I saw THE DEAR HUNTER regarded as Prog on some sites, I was only smiling, because those sites had 30 SECONDS TO MARS and COLDPLAY as Prog bands too. But good Lord, ProgArchives? Sometimes I think the definition of Prog/Progressive is too wide, and not every band, that's just a little bit more interesting than the others, should fall into this category.

The music left me totally cold and unamazed. Good for an alternative rock band, but average when compared to latest THE VERVE or even U2 efforts. Melodic, catchy, radio-friendly and so on, but where's the magic? Maybe, somewhere in earlir works of THE DEAR HUNTER, can you recommend me? Because for now I feel like I just wasted my time on what expected to be if not good Prog, just good music then! In 223892735th time I'm promising (to myself) to be more careful with hyped albums/bands, I swear! 1 star for my wasted time and money would be enough, I guess.

progkidjoel wrote: ^^I think it should be removed - All he says is that he likes other bands more and that he shouldn'tve bought it because of the hype...

Jester is important person here, he has done a lot of reviews and, from what I saw, most of them are good. But this is like giving Dark Side of the Moon 1 star. Not that I want to compare these two, but quality of both are clearly to see. Yes, both has these advantages elsewhere, but (oh crap, I again trapped myself into words) situation is similar.

No, I'm not comparing these two, but there are for sure ideas, this story thing (which is something one should evaluate also), emotion thing (can raise yours by strong story and that you can feel with hero/s, on the verge of emo music. But Coheed proved that even something touched by emo can be good prog) and all other reasons I gave in my review. OK, I agree that my Act III review is not so good as first two (was done in rush), but 

for hell's sake, one star ? Even for this Indukti album I hate I gave 2 stars. And people are mumbling that it deserves at least 3. Well, there I can get myself over ugly music. Over what can't anyone get here ? Over melody ? :-D Over perfect use of strings and various, not so often in music used instruments ?

Oh, by the way, thank you for Indukti thread. Very helpful. Basically, my rating was between 2-3. I choose 2(+)

Now I'm coming through my technical/extreme (where I have average of 3) metal redemption. In general, I can't stand death metal vocals. And prefer calmer, more cleaner things (Dark Side of the Moon style) things.

But now, when I'm listening Mastodon's Crack in the Skye (wait a minute, is that correct name this "Sky"e?), I feel very pleased. More than in other genres. This is something I was waiting for, something extreme and something that can get to me in good shape. And I'm confused, between 4 and 5 stars. Very pleasing, even given in not so pleasant form.

Raff, I agree with you.

Every genres needs their approach, correct approach. And good album to start with.