Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

For me this album became a great example of how you sometimes just have to be in the exact right situation for any given piece of music to click. I didn’t appreciate this very much on my drive to work or while shopping at target but the end of sleep came on as I was driving down an empty street at night, leaving behind the last 3 years of my life and it really hit different. I love this list but it lives and dies by the randomized. Some days it misses but days like this it really transcends.

Fantastic post rock album by the masters themself. No other act knows how to go from some subtle introvert spare notes in slow tempo to all-in disrupting noise and tension and go back again. Great soundscapes and sounds: "cinematic" and "breathtaking in its grandiose beauty".

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Very impressive. 4 stars.

Static sounds exactly like getting plaque and tartar removed from your teeth. The rest is pretty good. 3

Was there an entire group of peripherally-metal types that all finished together recently? This shit, Karnivool, Nightwish, an early Stooges album possibly? All dropped in the last few days, and all slightly off the mark if you just wanna fucking rock. This band has a fucking dumb name, and they were one of those bands that infected heavy metal message boards in the mid-2000s. Every second insecure, scene tourist, I'm-more-than-just-a-metalhead type pretended they were fantastic. These guys, Skinny Puppy, Aphex Twin, Mogwai, Boris, Sun O)))))) etc etc you get the idea. Just boring post-rock stuff that does the exact same post-rock stuff as Mono or whatever. An hour of droning on, sounding exactly as you'd expect, thrilling... someone, I guess? It's like their main purpose as musicians is to give self-conscious heavy metal nerds something non-metal to say they like. Does anyone outside the "I like all kinds of music!" metal crowd listen to it? Anyway: not now cunts, I'm listening to ARMOURED SAINT. 2/5.

As far as artistic music goes this is up there with some of the more talented, unique albums. This felt closer to a movie score than a typical album. The ups and downs through the songs built tension and made it much more dramatic than a regular album. Overall it’s one of a kind and I can see why it’s considered so great. For me it’s more of an instrumental arrangement that is impressive but not something I’d listen to much. 5.5/10