As This Is Futuristic - Apparitions

Advantages: TBA
Disadvantages: TBA

...This review is being rewritten at the moment, and will reappear when I'm happy with it. I'm currently rewriting all of my old reviews to make them better and more in line with 'proper' reviews like you see on the liks of Pitchfork or Stylus, and naturally that's going to take a bit of work. Sorry for being massively inconvinient, but that's just how I roll, folks! I'll try to rewrite this review as quickly as possible, but for the moment I've written a basic guide to the album below which should hopefully serve as a place holder until my glorious full and proper review is created. A decent album from the Beck, with "Cellphone's Dead" and "Strange Apparition" forming two of the highlights. Ignore "Movie Theme", though.... Read review

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Advantages: Nice packaging, Rayna!
Disadvantages: Wimpy metal

.... The packaging is really cool and well designed. The digipack as well as having cool packaging also has 2 extra bonus tracks previously unreleased, these are wishes and apparition. Wishes is a pretty cool track but apparition really sucks. The digipack is a little more expensive than the standard version but if you like pretty pictures its worth forking out the extra cash. The overall album concept is very good.Who should buy this album??? Any die hard chamber fans. I suggest skip buying this album and keep listening to the original. It you don't have the original album buy it!! LOCO... Read review

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Advantages: Pop Rock at it's best
Disadvantages: Don't expect Nirvana 2

...-but-bitter "Good Grief" are perfect pop nuggets, with turbo-jet guitars propelling them. There are brief respites from such reckless rolling: the glammy verse-chorus-bridge of "Alone + Easy Target," the near-folky "For All The Cows," the sweetly Squeeze-like "Big Me." Yet, these are only refueling stops for Grohl (who recorded most of the album alone) before he turns the engines back on and blows through alterna-pop's speed limits. Named after UFO-like apparitions that U.S. fighter pilots claimed to have seen during World War II, FOO FIGHTERS chooses to ignore Grohl's tumultous real-life connections (there are few, if any, kiss-and-tell lyrics) in favor of establishing a separate musical identity. It's as though the songwriter felt there was little of Planet Nirvana worth rehashing, and decided to find a new (if similar) musical satellite to call his... Read review

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