Burnt by the Sun - The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good
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Artist: Burnt by the SunEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Music Label: Relapse
Soundtracks:
- Abril Los Ojos
- Washington Tube Steak
- Battleship
- Forlani
- 180 Proof
- Untitled
- Arrival Of Niburu
- Patient 957
- 2012
- Untitled
- Spinner Dunn
- Pentagons And Pentagrams
- Rev 101
- Untitled
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Free Music Review: Not so perfect...and not really all that good, either.
Hit: 2 Stars
I've had on-and-off feelings about getting this album for a couple of years, but I finally got up my spirits and bought it today. Perhaps I had elevated my hopes for this album a little too much. Perhaps I was expecting another PsyOpus, or Dillinger Escape Plan. Whatever the case may have been, I was ultimately pretty disappointed with this album.
I'll come clean: there was far, FAR too much filler on this album. I normally hold back this conclusion (as many a person will foolishly accuse, say, an Opeth album of having too much filler) on many albums which have quieter moments or non-musical tracks, but unfortunately, THE PERFECT is basically *saturated* with filler material, to the point that the actual songs are overshadowed by it.
The intro, track 6, "Arrival of Niburu," and of course track 10, and the downright obnoxious closer all amount to almost 45 minutes - 45 minutes! - of filler. It's easy enough to skip any of them, to be sure, but if an album is truly good, one wouldn't have to skip anything. And with the exception of "Niburu," it's not like these are instrumental masturbations by the band - they're just really annoying sound effects and samples. Which brings me to the untitled track 10.
Track 10. Dear. God. Maybe I'm just not wise in the ways of "noise" music, but 40 minutes and 36 seconds - longer than all nine actual songs combined, mind you - of noise? It's almost completely comprised of a headache-inducing, monotonous hum, with a brief break past the 14-minute mark where a sample of a person talking about ancient South Americans and aliens, and the possible relation thereof, and then random samples of radio station tuning near the end, accompanied by loads of static. I'm sorry, but where is the art in that? Is this the band's way of being "mysterious" or something? And besides, how can one like an album where the filler takes up OVER HALF of the entire length?
And finally, the vocals, handled by Michael Oleander, are no better than average-quality metalcore screams. Little range, loads of "anger," and lyrics as profound as a sock lying on the floor ("Smells like/Bullsh*t/Smells like bullsh*t to me" - I rest my case) ham up each song.
The only thing that made me give this album more than one star was the fact that the guitars and the drums had an interesting setup. There were plenty of complex rhythms at work here, and some nice jazz-like tempo changes. In this respect, Burnt by the Sun is almost - ALMOST - a decent mathcore band; but with so much filler and no real direction, they distract themselves from being PERFECT, or even GOOD.
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