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THE SABIANS SHIVER THE MUSIC CARTEL |
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| The Sabians are a band of competent musicians.
But in music, as in a game of pool, the follow-though is an essential
part of the shot.
This band promises great things, presumably because of the fact that their frontman, Jason Marler, spent seven years of his life being introspective in a Russian Orthodox monastery. But they fail to deliver this sense of depth that they promise, and maybe that’s because they’re still hanging on to their past as former members of Sleep. |
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| While
this is The Sabians second release, and few surely heard their first,
they don’t seem to have much to say
for the last five years as a band. Ardently putting forth aggressive
prog rock melodies does not a good album make, and they seem to be resting
on their laurels as another hard-assed, Tool-influenced pseudo-metal
outfit. When in reality, they’re just plain depressing. Brooding and melodramatic music usually has something more to say than “I can wait patiently.” And most songwriters, especially educated ones who have spent almost a decade in a monastery with nothing to do, presumably, besides pray and read, should know that the phrase “slide of hand” does not quite mean the same as the words “slight of hand”. Again, “concede” is not spelled “concied”, and “ tear of” does not equal “tear off”. “Wheel” is not spelled “wheele” and “consequence” is not spelled with the letter “i”. There are many other grammatical and spelling mistakes in the liner notes, which leads me to believe that these slights are unintentional. But despite Marler’s deficient spelling (or at least his lack of understanding of word processing spell-check tools), the album is lacking in ways too enumerative to list. |
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----Alicia Koledin
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