2008Apegenine Records
2.5/10
Hunz.
The very name brings to mind "Heinz" and "Hunts", and this might be more than simple coincidence. Hunz is really a lot like ketchup, if you think about it. That is to say, a little bit goes a long way. Ooh, demoscene! Wow, tracker music! Yay, ketchup! The novelty quickly wears off...(Read more at The Silent Ballet)
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Wow, you can cast about your opinion like a rotten piece of fish. But can you actually review? No.
ReplyDeleteeh, i disagree, but i can live with that.
ReplyDeletedid you actually read the entire review?
ReplyDeleteBut it's kind of like starting out a review for Brooks & Dunn by saying that you hate country music and then proceed to complain about how the slide guitar gets sickening after half a song. You don't really seem qualified to judge if you have such a prejudice and can't find redeeming qualities in the genre to start with.
ReplyDeletebut by that argument, any and all formulaic releases are critically successful just by merit of the fact that they upheld the paradigm of their genre. a haphazard smear of red and yellow - a child's fingerpainting of a firetruck - might be impressive for somebody who is 2 years old. in the genre of toddler fingerart, yes it is an opus; does that make it comparable to rembrandt or monet then?
ReplyDeletei don't like tracker music in general because to me it feels like a gimmick. it's the same reason why glitch doesn't do too much for me either - it's more about the medium and less about the art. i would much rather listen to the tried and true electronica + warbled vocals shtick of hors sujet or the british expeditionary force than that of hunz because at least they are captivating, at least they mix things up. my dislike of hunz had less to do with the tracker/demoscene "genre" and much more to do with the fact that there was next to no differentiation among tracks, that songs plodded along at their own masturbatory pace without ever going anywhere, and that there was no inherent urgency or tension to be resolved. some people like that sort of music. playing the part of this particular critic, i don't.
make sense?
Speaking of "masturbatory", the more you go on, the more you sound like a wanker.
ReplyDeleteah, i was hoping for a chance at bona fide discourse. guess i was just feeding the trolls. too bad really.
ReplyDeletewhoa mister, settle down.
ReplyDeleteDid this album offend you somehow? You seem to want to publicly BURN it rather than just shelve it with the rest of the crap albums...
Hey Andy. I agree with your views on tracker & glitch music. Can I ask who you like? I think you might have missed the point with your "formulaic releases" rebuttal though. You do come across as someone who's quite full of themselves. Unnecessarily wordy perhaps? My apologies if this isn't the case, just how it reads. Remember just because you don't like an album doesn't mean you can't do a good review. By the end it just sounded like a well-worded flame or rant.
ReplyDeleteAndy Kissner's music is very popular on the mastubatory discourse paradigm scene, so he knows what he's talking about. Expeditionary differentiation is endured akin to inherent excruciation when reading his blogs, you interminable trolls! Only a bona-fide ponderer would contrive this formulaic understatement.
ReplyDeleteto address the three anonymous' in order:
ReplyDelete1. no
2. fair enough point, i can see how it could come off like that. thanks for the feedback
3. lol
its just bad reviewing. inserting words like paradigm and haphazard isn't gonna give any more pertinence to how bad a review this is. When you dislike music, a good review would point out flaws. Now i think you should re-evaluate your position on reviewing stuff you ' hate '
ReplyDeletejust because i use big words doesn't mean anything.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm.... I'm not sure if this is a review so much as it is a rant. There is not even a hint of attempted objectivity here. I'm all for explaining why you dislike something, but if it's not informative then I don't see the point.
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