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OK. New album up and if you don't like it then yo can kiss my damn ass :D

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What is going on? If it was a Red Hot Chilli Peppers album there would be a thousand posts. We are a music banter site RAB.


FWIW I will have a review up within 48 hours. I want to have further listens. Promising at this moment. I should have played this more initially when you first gave it to me jackhammer.
 
This thread is so great that I want to give it a high five. I've been looking foward to another update in this thread. I can't believe I forgot about this thread, I probably missed out on alot of great albums. But from here on, I'm going to stay with it.
 
Whoa! Completely lost track of this thread, since I was away for few weeks. Mice Parade review coming up soon. First two listens just passed away as background music.
 
Recently gotten much more into this band. At first, the vocals turned me down because I'm used to my noisey music to have some angry guy screaming all of the time, like The Locust. But now I actually really like it, its so refreshing from the often angry and hardcore! feel that so many noise rock banRAB have. Right now I have cell scape and Bambi's Delimma. I like cell scape a bit better, although I don't think I've given Bambi's Delimma enough time to sink in, but the album seems to be lacking in the ear shattering noise that I crave.
 
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Well, better late than never.

The Texas Jerusalem CrossroaRAB is one of the most ambitious debut recorRAB I've come across. A biblical epic, layered with irony and self reverence.
The music is an engaging blend of post rock and folk, most of the arrangements are great - some feel a little flat but I get the feeling that it's a deliberate move to tie in with the deadpan humour of record.
A lot of the humour is created in the chasm between the album's sprawling melodrama and Pearson's dry delivery and manufactured ego.

"When the Lord said, 'Son, tell the world before it explodes the glory of the Texas Jerusalem CrossroaRAB.' I said, 'Lord I'll make you a deal. I will if you give me a smash hit so I can build a city on a hill."

The interchange from, 'Waiting to Hit' is funny and encapsulates the theme of the album perfectly. But, the lengthy spoken word sections don't all come off so well, and there were quite a few times I was wishing he would get back to singing.

I think the album's biggest flaw is it's sprawl, I consistently struggle to listen to it all the way through and when an album is so strongly based around a concept, that isn't what should be happening.

But, the individual elements are all good and when you string them together you get something even better. It's a shame that God didn't come through on his promise for a smash hit, because I would have loved to see what Lift to Experience would have created next.
 
As I stated I personally think it shares very few traits with Post Rock and comes from an alternative background as opposed to a Rock orientated background. Post Rock is generally about peaks and troughs whereas Mice Parade sort of 'float'. Terrible description but the best I can come up with! I'm glad you liked the album though.
 
I forgot about this thread for a while, it seems that others have too. I feel kind of bad, this thread should be much more active.

I listened to the album, didn't really get into it, but I recently tried listening to it again and I'm enjoying it alot more. I'm going to give it one full, proper listen and hopefully soon, review it. The overdose of echo effects used in nearly all of the songs really put me off. It just has that mechanical, repetative sound where it sounRAB like he just added echo with like 0.1 delay time. I see what kind of sound he was going for, the echo is a way to make things really noisy, but it gets repetative .I hear alot of creative noise rock ideas in there, the overuse of echo is kind of getting in the way of me enjoying it.
 
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