Duality - Howard Riley

Advantages: Lightning seeds with techno sounds
Disadvantages: Not their best effort

...This album opens with the early brit pop sound mixed with keyboard based track "Life of Riley" , the song best known for being on "Match of the day" as the goal of the month competitions music during the early 90's, talks not of football. The song is a song about the Ian Broudies's (the guy on the album cover and lead singer) son Riley. A soft vocal performance that has you wanting to hear more, but yet not quite blown away to the extent where you'd go out and buy the album for the one song. The lyrics are nice enough but their no Dylan, just like simple easy poetry. 8/10. The second track "Sense" takes a more uptempo feel and almost dreamy music that sits well with the lyrics and vocals. The song again shows the simple style the Lightning Seeds used of a simple "Brit-pop" formular, with guitar's soft lead vocals, and they mix... Read review

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Advantages: simple, soft, easy
Disadvantages: not my thing, too techno-sounding5

...This album opens with the early brit pop sound mixed with keyboard based track "Life of Riley" , the song best known for being on "Match of the day" as the goal of the month competitions music during the early 90's, talks not of football. The song is a song about the Ian Broudies's (the guy on the album cover and lead singer) son Riley. A soft vocal performance that has you wanting to hear more, but yet not quite blown away to the extent where you'd go out and buy the album for the one song. The lyrics are nice enough but their no Dylan, just like simple easy poetry. 8/10. The second track "Sense" takes a more uptempo feel and almost dreamy music that sits well with the lyrics and vocals. The song again shows the simple style the Lightning Seeds used of a simple "Brit-pop" formular, with guitar's soft lead vocals, and they mix... Read review

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Advantages: Melodies to go with the anger
Disadvantages: The lyrics occasionally die out

...Produced by Rick Rubin Recorded at The Mansion, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, CA, Akadamie Mathematique of Philosophical Sound Research, Los Angeles, CA and Sound City, Los Angeles, CA TRACK LISTING Prelude 3.0 / The Blister Exists / Three Nil / Duality / Opium Of The People / Circle / Welcome / Vermilion / Pulse Of The Maggots / Before I Forget / Vermilion Pt. 2 / The Nameless / The Virus Of Life / Danger - Keep Away Opening on a barrage on tumbling electronic noise and piano melodies, PRELUDE 3.0, shows just how far Slipknot have come since their first album. Side-stepping the whole nu-metal path of predictable down tuned sledge hammering riffs and playground chants, this sees the band moving in directions you wouldn't have thought them capable of a few years back. THE BLISTER EXISTS, on the other hand has its sound firmly... Read review

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