Title: I just don't get it....
Product review: I understand the concept of this music, but the execution is flawed beyond belief. A hybrid of post-rock and free jazz inspired noodling, this album is gleefully all over the place. The vocals are cryptic, mumbled and repetitive. Loops of ambient guitar work and drum flourishes color what feels like a very Chicago art-jazz style beat poetry reading.I think there is an impulse to say that if a record is doing something different, that's enough. But with this record, it just isn't the case. This album doesn't work: it self-destructs, sometimes violently. If you want to hear this sort of thing done right, check out Storm and Stress' "Under Thunder and Florescent Lights", a much more thoroughly thought out free jazz/post rock hybrid.Pretentious, over-rated, less fun than "Portable Model Of", less beautiful than "How Memory Works", this is Joan of Arc's most ambitious album, and also their worst.
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