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This album is not going to win the band many new fans, but it is certainly a treat for the converted.
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There's less brooding menace and more giddy insanity -- without ever giving way to total chaos.
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'Suspended Animation' is less a compendium of songs and more a splurging, raging, raping jazz metal fusion machine, weaving in samples, gong noises and assorted cartoon horror.
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A fascinating blend of the macabre and the lighthearted, something that will appeal to anyone who appreciates the darker side of both comedy and music.
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Suspended Animation, on the whole, is a technical marvel; a kaleidoscopic foray into death metal, Looney Tunes sound effects, and an alarming balance of slapstick and pathos.
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So is Patton a charlatan or a genius? While Suspended Animation doesn’t exactly settle the question, it’s shitloads of fun trying to find out.
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Though Suspended Animation boasts 30 tracks, it only runs some 40-odd minutes, and those are some of the most densely packed and bombastic minutes you’re likely to find on a record this year.
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Alternative PressIntensely bizarre cartoon music. [May 2005, p.178]
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UncutHilariously frenetic, perpetually distracted. [Jun 2005, p.116]
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Although this LP is sequenced into tiny fragments of varying speeds of mood, the LP feels like one super-caffeine express fairground ride.
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Fucking insane, whatever way you listen to it.
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Miniatures of spaghetti-western spasm and speed-of-light viscera.
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New Musical Express (NME)A 30-track nonsense-o-paedia of speed-metal twatabouts. [9 Apr 2005, p.58]
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With today's cartoons darker and more violent than ever, I'm sure cartoon music could someday sound as though influenced by Suspended Animation, but I highly doubt any rock music will.
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The WireIt begins as quite a thrilling ride. But at this level of concentration, ten minutes feels like an hour; it soon becomes enervating. [#255, p.55]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 14
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Mixed: 1 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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BingoI.Sep 15, 2008this album is great!
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DavidF.Jan 11, 2008I found this to be their most accessible release yet, and almost gave it a 9.
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AaronHSep 2, 2006