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Post by Witherer on Nov 29, 2017 15:01:34 GMT -5
I felt you could skip around to random parts of the album for 10 seconds at a time and it'd be believable that each of those parts were part of the same song. Is this always a bad thing and could this be intentional to make the album more cohesive? Or just in this case where songs have other issues and this being one more element that lacks variation that doesn't contribute to saving the album?
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Post by thekeeper on Nov 29, 2017 15:09:16 GMT -5
I felt you could skip around to random parts of the album for 10 seconds at a time and it'd be believable that each of those parts were part of the same song. Is this always a bad thing and could this be intentional to make the album more cohesive? Or just in this case where songs have other issues and this being one more element that lacks variation that doesn't contribute to saving the album? It's just in this case. My favorite Mortiis album is Song of a Long Forgotten Ghost, so I'm not one to shy away from repetition and constancy, but here it worked against the album in my opinion. If tonal and compositional consistency here were purposeful in that way, the effect was more lackluster than hypnotic or epic.
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Post by Tyrannus on Nov 29, 2017 15:26:32 GMT -5
I'm revisiting Dagor and liking it more than I recalled liking it
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Post by andrewwerdna on Dec 16, 2017 23:13:34 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I know who this is, but I won't say. Probably a good idea to stay relatively anonymous for a review blog. Impressive that the author has been able to consistently post daily, and the quality of the writing and analysis is still top notch. I've been checking in and reading the posts each day and definitely will continue doing so. Keep up the good work!
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Post by crystallogic13 on Dec 17, 2017 1:57:29 GMT -5
Indeed the reviewer provides solid reviews and I think we need more blogs/places like it.
What I noticed going back to the reviews, is that there are already releases that have disappeared/removed already by their creators, only the review remaining to archive them .. So for the record :
- As the reviewer mentions Uldur - Mountain Pass is removed..
- Rattenkonig's Endlees Journey has been removed as the reviewer notes, but Oak Forest has ALSO been removed, with only 2 albums on sale by the artist on BC. And looking at my archives, there's also "I" that has been removed (didn't like it, although Oak Forest I DID like stuff in it )..
- Oghronyth's Demo MXVII has also been removed (author hasn't added a note on the review yet)..
I think it pays of in DS to "listen today what you can leave for tomorrow" ...
Again, great service-blog whoever does it, keep it going please!!
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Post by nahadoth on Dec 17, 2017 2:37:51 GMT -5
- Rattenkonig's Endlees Journey has been removed as the reviewer notes, but Oak Forest has ALSO been removed, with only 2 albums on sale by the artist on BC. And looking at my archives, there's also "I" that has been removed (didn't like it, although Oak Forest I DID like stuff in it ).. I noticed that too - I asked the guy from this project about that on reddit and he responded, saying that he sometimes felt unsure about the music after releasing it. Can't remember exactly what he said, and he seems to have deleted/hidden the comment from the thread. To me that's the obvious sign he should take a little more time before releasing the next thing...
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Post by Tyrannus on Jan 5, 2018 19:16:58 GMT -5
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Post by Carl Shoemaker on Jan 5, 2018 19:45:34 GMT -5
I saw that, should be a good read later.
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Post by erisianseer on Jan 13, 2018 16:34:48 GMT -5
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Post by garvalf on Jan 16, 2018 17:20:23 GMT -5
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Post by Carl Shoemaker on Jan 20, 2018 23:37:59 GMT -5
one of my main take aways from this blog is a basic "yay! or nay!" to the album. I was thinking a dungeon rating system could be at the end of all reviews, like 3 out of 5 dungeons, 5 out of 5 dungeons, something like that.
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Post by nahadoth on Jan 21, 2018 10:17:12 GMT -5
when I was writing for an old webzine I HATED having to give a point or star rating to releases, mostly because there's so much back and forth as to what constitutes a 5 star/10 point release, and kinds of albums those should ratings should be saved for. I remember the guy behind the Barbarian Skull zine made a point of telling everyone that he gives a lot of 3.5/5 reviews because he wanted the 5 star review to REALLY MEAN something, but then from all of his reviews I read I saw a ton of positive reviews, with very little criticism, constructive or otherwise, and all those releases were between 3-4/5, and it was really hard to get a sense of which one might be better than another.
It would be nice if there was some summary or star rating for people who are not native English speakers but I like having to wade through the text personally.
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Post by Tyrannus on Jan 21, 2018 11:44:22 GMT -5
I like that this isn’t quantified, since I’m used to seeing a bunch of number ratings on sites like RYM. I think DS is tricky to rate because your enjoyment can be so independent of “objective measures of quality” in terms of technicality and things like that. I’m sure I phrased that poorly but anyway I think DS just doesn’t necessarily lend itself well to numeric rating
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Post by Carl Shoemaker on Jan 21, 2018 12:48:35 GMT -5
very solid responses, thanks for the discourse.
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Post by Alder on Jan 21, 2018 15:29:48 GMT -5
I think DS is tricky to rate because your enjoyment can be so independent of “objective measures of quality” in terms of technicality and things like that. I’m sure I phrased that poorly but anyway I think DS just doesn’t necessarily lend itself well to numeric rating Sounds like you're hitting on that "personal music" aspect that keeps showing up in all sorts of dungeon discussions. It may be hard to word, but I know exactly what you're talking about. Maybe there's some way to rate DS with respect to different archetypical listener tastes...
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