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22 December 2023
Writing a music review can be really fucking annoying sometimes. You’re responsible to keep in mind that, if it’s good, you want people to get it and listen to it for themselves. So you need to mention some things about it. You can build up a scenario or an atmosphere for the reader to relate to, but you gotta let them know some things about the band, right?
I mean, if you’re only into Christian death metal, and I told you South’s new album kicked ass, you might buy it. Then you’d get all hot-pissed because it ain’t your precious Christian death metal (which it isn’t). I kinda have to let you know what it is at some point, even though I’d much rather just free-write about my day and all the shit I’m dealing with, and how the record is allowing me to pen some beautiful piece of what’s on my mind without interrupt. It’s giving me these little four minute atmospheres to wander through while I scribble down the sad, terrible, perplexing news my good friend confides in me-- each song ending at the perfect moment, so I don’t get so lost in what I’m doing that I sink into some pseudo-depressed catatonia.
The South’s With the Tides is a mix of all the things you liked about The Smashing Pumpkins before Billy got fat and pretentious. It's all the stuff you dig about U2 when they’re actually making decent music-- not pop drivel, though I did like their last record. And it's a bit of that ferocious, emotional screaming that lazy-eyed dude from Radiohead does on Kid A, which is the only album of theirs I own.
With the Tides is musically interesting. It sounds like they took great care and concern in what sort of presence each instrument would have in each song, and when to throw in something completely left-field-- like a harp or a banjo-- without it sounding freakish and inappropriate. The sappy, abstract nature of their lyrics-- which normally has me rolling my eyes harder than a Democrat at the Republican National Convention-- sounds like it belongs in this music, especially with the careful delivery the lines are given.
Jesus,.. I really like this. Someone must have pushed the “Send Vinnie Good Music” button this month. Get your own copy of it.
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I mean, if you’re only into Christian death metal, and I told you South’s new album kicked ass, you might buy it. Then you’d get all hot-pissed because it ain’t your precious Christian death metal (which it isn’t). I kinda have to let you know what it is at some point, even though I’d much rather just free-write about my day and all the shit I’m dealing with, and how the record is allowing me to pen some beautiful piece of what’s on my mind without interrupt. It’s giving me these little four minute atmospheres to wander through while I scribble down the sad, terrible, perplexing news my good friend confides in me-- each song ending at the perfect moment, so I don’t get so lost in what I’m doing that I sink into some pseudo-depressed catatonia.
The South’s With the Tides is a mix of all the things you liked about The Smashing Pumpkins before Billy got fat and pretentious. It's all the stuff you dig about U2 when they’re actually making decent music-- not pop drivel, though I did like their last record. And it's a bit of that ferocious, emotional screaming that lazy-eyed dude from Radiohead does on Kid A, which is the only album of theirs I own.
With the Tides is musically interesting. It sounds like they took great care and concern in what sort of presence each instrument would have in each song, and when to throw in something completely left-field-- like a harp or a banjo-- without it sounding freakish and inappropriate. The sappy, abstract nature of their lyrics-- which normally has me rolling my eyes harder than a Democrat at the Republican National Convention-- sounds like it belongs in this music, especially with the careful delivery the lines are given.
Jesus,.. I really like this. Someone must have pushed the “Send Vinnie Good Music” button this month. Get your own copy of it.
LEARN MORE HERE.
PURCHASE THIS OR SIMILAR ITEMS
artid
1606
Old Image
6_1_south.jpg
issue
vol 6 - issue 01 (sep 2003)
section
entertainmental