Hey people! Well, here’s my review… I’m not too inspired today, and i'm quite tired actually, so I’ll try to be, at least, clear, for I won’t be really technical!
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Machine 15: When it started I felt disappointed, as I expected something more… I don’t know, something like Farewell my hell, harder… When the voice started, I felt… fear! But then when the song went on I quite liked it. 7/7.5.
Done is done: Is that abstract noise made by strings? It really scared me at first (yeah, this CD scared me a lot the first time I listened to it lol!). I like this song, but not much. Is a bit slow… and strange. I had to listen to it three times to start to like it. 6/6.5.
Detox: omfgwtfbbq. Yeah, that was what I thought when I listened to it. It’s the most poppy song I expected to hear from them. I mean… dude!! But it’s really sticky, I have to admit the other day I was all day singing it!! Too promotional, in my opinion. They’re trying to get more fans, obviously. That’s what every band does in a point. 4.
Vicious circle: Aaaaaawwww!! It’s strange to hear this kind of song from Millencolin, but I don’t care about that. It’s to cute not to like it. When I listened to it, it reminded me of Novo, so I thought it would have probably been written by Madz. Who knows. One of my favs from the album. 8.5/9.
Broken world: One of da songs! I don’t know why, but I like it. It’s… different. Though the quote “get out of the broken world and start a band” scares me… When I listened to that and then I saw that the last song’s name was “end piece” I expected the worse! It reminded me too much to “the end” by the Beatles… I hope it doesn’t mean anything! 8.
Come on: Wtf is this? Honestly, has Nikola been doing some trips to the countryside or something? It has affected his mind. 4.
Centerpiece: Eeermmm… They didn’t have enough songs and thought it was a cool idea to make an 11 seconds long song?
Who’s laughing now? When I listened to Mathias playing it in the studio videos I thought: hell, that’s a good one! And it didn’t disappoint me at all! 9/9.5.
Brand new game: Yeah dude, when I listened to this in the website I prayed for all the songs of the album to be like this one!! Frikin awesome. 9.
Ducks and Drakes: As I said before, too much countryside for Nikola. With Come On, one of the worst ones. Though it goes better while it goes by. 5.5/6.
Turkey paradise: Not much to say about it… 6.5.
Route One: I think someone has already said it, but I must agree on this: this song sounds like Mathias! I think it’s pretty cool. 8/8.5
Danger for stranger: It was one of my favorites when I first listened to the album. It catched my ear. The chorus is pretty sticky too, but not on the way Detox is, of course. 8
Saved by Hell: Another slow one! I find it beautiful, but listening to the beginning I would have said it is something by Nikola’s solo. It reminds me of his last single, the one whose video is Nikola playing drums all the time. I think he’s kind of bored of punk-rock. He had to start a solo career to make the kind of songs he felt like doing, and though he kept on working on Millencolin, I think it kind of bores him now, like he’s really changed and needs to make some other kind of music. Maybe it’s just my imagination. Anyway, I like the song. 7. *EDIT* All the Nikola thing is been said before. Sorry, I hadn't read all the posts. IT looks like we all have more or less the same opinion on a lot of things!
End piece: When I listened to it I thought my neighbors were putting down their kitchen or something. 0, for making stupid “we need more songs and we don’t feel like doping anything so we are going to make some noise and that way fill the 15 songs we must do” pieces.
It’s been ages since the last time I made maths, but it feels like it has a quite good mark, doesn’t it? I’ve needed some days to get used to it, but now that I’m familiar with all the songs I can say that, even if it’s not their best album at all, it’s not bad. Not as good as I would have expected from them, but acceptable.
*EDIT* I've taken a calculator, and taking the lower marks on the ones i was -/-, it makes 6.95, and with the high ones 7.19 (of course taking of centerpiece and end piece). So yeah, a "B" more or less.
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