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Apr 19, 2018To be blunt, Tesseract are entirely too reliant on ambiance as their "secret sauce." Where a proper use of ambiance can add a pensive tone or an opportunity for emotional reflection to a song, Tesseract rely on it both as cohesive glue on nearly every track on Sonder and as a melody replacement. It's simply not enough.
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Apr 19, 2018Not so much leaping between time-signatures as entire time-zones, the gristly riffs and ambient metal meanderings of ‘Sonder’ strive for a kind of stoic, sombre enormity, but they clash badly with Tompkins’ often slick pop vocals.
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Positive: 13 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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Apr 21, 2018
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Apr 21, 2018
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Jun 21, 2018Disappointment. Boring, nothing more to say. I thought that Polaris is the lowest point for TesseracT, but...