08-18-2016, 11:33 AM
(08-17-2016, 12:03 AM)Blood Music Wrote:(08-16-2016, 05:22 PM)hugo Wrote:(08-16-2016, 09:50 AM)Blood Music Wrote: I still can't figure out what I think of "Arcturian." Hated the track premiere(s). Saw them perform tracks off it live and wasn't convinced. First listen through the album, it was a lot better than I expected but still the production bothered me a lot. As time goes on, I've been spinning it more and more. Honestly, can't decide what I think of this album. :|
Dude I actually just played this a few days ago and was blown away by side A, like, I REALLY REALLY loved it. Then got distracted by a dragon in Skyrim during side B so I can't recall if I liked it or not. But yeah it is a grower. Production is shite, though.
Haha, yeah I really feel like it's a supreme grower, very few albums worked on me like that. But yeah, production stops it from being a masterpiece, sadly. They've had some pretty dank production on earlier albums too, which is why I wanted to do that live album - there are so many tracks in that live album that sound better than the studio releases imo!
Think they wanted "Arcturian" to sound as, well, Arcturian as possible - that is to say, like their other albums which haven't exactly had the best production values. Guess that's such an important part of being Arcturus, dunno really. Anyways as far as I'm aware the production is very much intentionally what it is.
That said, I like the album a loooot. But I'm a huge Arcturus fan so guess I'm biased :3
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