Fear Of A Green Planet - Dub Syndicate

Advantages: a wonderful return of an american master
Disadvantages: lyrics

...slightly disappointed, for, unlike many middle-aged men, he doesn't act like a sexually charged teenager, nor tries to. Those looking for an artist whose grasp of his form is as better than damn near any one on the planet, who still has a sense of the nature of his own art and who still has the wherewithal that one needs to make great art will be satisfied; for I Cant Stop is a portrait of a great artist in nearly full command of his faculties, with the guts to use all of them. Just because he's almost a wistful 60 doesn't mean that the right reverend has become a eunuch. The title track starts off where Belle, his epic last full-length secular album, ended. And this needs explanation. In "Dream," the final track to the album, Green kissed his muse goodbye in what can only be described as the musical equivalent of mind numbing breakup sex... Read review

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Advantages: original , raw sound , interesting vocal style , great guitar riffs
Disadvantages: lack of awesome drumming when compared with later works , slightly repetitive

...Fear Factory's debut album marked the beggining of an evolution in metal, this is a band that pioneered there own style and has gone on to influence more recent US metal band such as Machine Head, Chimera and Biohazard. So this is where it all began. With Soul of a new machine Fear Factory started out has a death metal band, but not just any death metal band, fear factory went further and played around with the death metal genre to find their own sound. the band frequently experimented with several different electronic samples and incorporated a soft vocal style to contrast with Burton C Bell's harsh death metal grunts. This review has been spilt into 2 parts repersenting each album Soul Of A New Machine This is Fear Factory's heaviest album ,here in an average song the death metal vocals tend to occupy about 75% of the song... Read review

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Advantages: lovely music
Disadvantages: no...

...Perhaps the biggest band in the UK of this year are Keane. You could say the title belongs to Snow Patrol, Scissor Sisters or Franz Ferdinand, but I think it has to be Keane. They were first dubbed the new Coldplay - not only because they were spotted by the same small record label as Chris Martin's gang, but because their sound was similar. There's a big difference between Coldplay and Keane, however, and that is that Keane don't use guitars to make brilliant and emotional rock, they use the piano as their base instrument. It is ever-present throughout this entire album, and results in a successful stab at setting out what it intends to achieve. Countless bands have tried and failed in the past, but Keane have scored with this stunning debut album. Lead singer Tom Chaplin is on vocals, whilst Richard Hughes on drums and Time Rice... Read review

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