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- Summary: The second album for the supergroup of musicians from such bands as Mogwai, Pantheist, Gonga, and Electric Wizard.
- Record Label: Invada
- Genre(s): Rock
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Positive: 5 out of 7
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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The guitar-led epic soundscapes, choral chanting, woeful strings and portent keys on their debut ‘A Love Of Shared Disasters’ are still present.
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UncutOver the course of 80 compelling minutes they roam laggardly through rural post-rock, prog, folk, ambient and doom metal pastures without ever trying your patience. [May 2009, p.80]
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Alternative PressFloyd kick the shit out of 99 percent of the current post-rock crop, so you can't fault CBP for clinging to Picasso's claim that "Good artists copy; great artists steal." [Jun 2009, p.104]
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The contrasts, themes, and sheer eclectics of the album make for something that any one person can listen to, and relate to.
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The 77-minute epic is absolutely far too long for some. But it is certainly worth sticking around for, even if the third track--a three-part, 18-minute 'Time of Ye Life/Born For Nothing/Paranoid Arm of Narcoleptic Empire'--appears daunting.
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MojoThis 77-minute abbreviation includes the 18-minute triptych 'Time Of Ye Life/Born For Nothing/Paranoid Arm Of Narcoleptic Empire, typifying CBP's simmering conflagration of Mogwai, Godspeed! and The God Machine. [May 2009, p.109]
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Despite these head-scratching derailments, 200 Tons of Bad Luck brings the gloom in Biblical doses.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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CarlSJun 1, 2009
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SmazzK.Sep 10, 2009Perfect post-rock. The new Floyd....well closest yet.
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