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Review: Aerial - The Sentinal
Aerial - The Sentinal Originally released 5 Nov, 2007.
Let’s face it, Post-Rock, while wonderful and beautiful, is one of the easiest genres to make a cliched album in. The kiss of death in making a post-rock album is being charted as “Explosionsy,” implying that your album sounds somewhat like the acclaimed and innovative post-rock band Explosions in the Sky. This seems like a compliment. But its not. It implies that your album is a copycat, a generic rip-off, not worth buying, not worth listening to.
Aerial’s The Sentinal is explosionsy. The guitar riffs are played out. The amount of trem picking will blow your mind, but not in the good way. Tone is alright, but nothing the average bored 14 year old with a delay peddle and some simple distortion couldn’t figure out.
The addition of vocals attempts to create a unique album, but instead forces the sound of the album to an unusual, half post-rock half shoegaze form, the quality of both being so low that it will not appeal to either sect of music fans.
Despite all this, the album is surprisingly listenable, especially the fist few songs. The progression from Heads Gone into My God, Its Full of Stars is actually quite nice. As the album progresses, however, the tracks become more and more cliche, so much so that by the last song your wondering if the band didn’t just record one song, then copy it four times to make a whole album.
Overall, this album is barely worth a rapidshare download, let alone an actual purchase. Decent, perhaps, for background music at a party or pissing off music snobs for kicks, but not good for serious listening or contemplation.
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