Does Topspin usually update the live receipt with download links right at midnight on release day, or is it a gradual roll-out thing? I think Dragon Tattoo was a gradual roll-out, but I can't remember.
My Live Receipt says "Preorder download will become available on street date (2012-11-13 12:00 AM EST)"
I'm not going to hold my breath on that actually happening though.
I really don't like MQ's voice in 'Ice Age' and most of the other tracks in the new EP. Does anyone else think it's too windy and not enouch fuit in her voice. By fruit I mean pureness and less raspiness. I dig the rest of the tracks but 'Ice Age' sounds too folksy for the direction they are testing.
I personally don't care for her vocals at all. I enjoy the music itself, and that's the reason why I even bother to follow this band, but her singing sucks and always sounds flat.
I don't want to go through 31 pages of posts so excuse me if this has been brought up but is there someone coughing at the 3:26 mark of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters?
I sounds like a 2 coughs and definitely doesn't sound like it should there. However, I can't believe they would have missed that.
**EDIT**
Ok so the coughing has been brought up. Still wondering if it's suppose to be there or not.
Last edited by Deepvoid; 11-11-2012 at 09:21 PM.
^^
sorry, my bad
caught a cold recently
There are about 4 different vocal tracks, including the cough, that I can count in TSORPM, the cough is there on purpose, I guarantee you.
I always did like that in Discipline, made the narrator sound hesitant to even speak his mind.
I honestly haven't heard the cough in the song at all. Granted, I haven't really listened for it yet, but I guess I'm just not very observant with those kinds of things.
Oh no, please don't start this again...^^^
Edit:
Got a message
"Your order Has been shipped"
Last edited by witte; 11-12-2012 at 07:45 AM.
i'm a bit worried that mine hasn't even gone into "about to ship" from amazon. i selected 2-day shipping and it's supposed to arrive tomorrow...
also, the price on amazon went up since i pre-ordered it, and is now $23.70.
Last edited by eversonpoe; 11-12-2012 at 08:38 AM.
Finally listened to it. I like it, there are some beautiful, droning melodies, there is the "Closer"-like Loop (and I have no problem with Reznor's looping phrase, don't see what the big deal is) and there is the discordant, menacing Speaking in Tongues. The Sleep of Reason is especially haunting, I feel like I'm being drawn deeper into a dream, getting closer to a huge revelation of some kind and right before I find out what it is, I wake up. The abrupt ending actually fits very well with this interpretation, so I don't really mind it (as some people apparently do).
Hope I don't get too many facepalms for posting a link to my review here
http://www.antiquiet.com/reviews/201...-with-an-omen/
I'm still not sure how people justify reviewing an album at 192kbps
Why's everyone so scared to post their reviews? We haven't run people out of town for having criticisms about the EP (yet).
I can't wait to get the records, look over the sealed packages for a little bit, and then set them with my other records, still sealed, and never play them because I don't have a record player.
Oh awesome, my first facepalm. I'd like to thank the Academy...
Last edited by gorast; 11-12-2012 at 01:33 PM. Reason: how is it different from the people in the merch forum that have a million versions of with teeth
Oooh yes you pinpointed why this one is my fave.
I like the rest of the EP a lot too, it definitely suits a particular mood, but it seems I'm in that mood this evening so s'all good.
Looking forward to the album a lot more now. Honestly, why in God's name did they pick Keep It Together as the single? Bizarre choice.
if you listen to music solely for the melodies; yeah. if you watch movies only for the plots, you could review them based on a cam-bootleg too. If you look at paintings only to see the subject depicted, it doesn't matter if you're looking at a crappy photograph under poor light of the painting. But art can be more than the sum of the parts.
I think your attitude (while totally fair) is completely incongruous with what music I like and how I like to listen to it. I love pop songs as much as the next guy (seriously, GANGNAM STYLE!), but sounds are important to some of us. And I think its clear that sonic detail was part of the enterprise here.
Last edited by screwdriver; 11-12-2012 at 02:38 PM. Reason: better analogy, second thoughts