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Agree, 100%, true as hell, statement of the century, go on, can't get enough of this! Luv ya my Goatified Homeboy!

Wow, interesting
Is it comical?

i'd like to know that, too. is it? if the answer is spoilerish, pm me plz. i'd like to spice my waiting time up with some review like-info.

You guys were disappointed with Synchestra? I thought it was one of Devin's best albums yet. I read a few bad reviews for Synchestra and I just don't get it. Listen to it again. It's probably better than you remember it.

Ziltoid, i agree, is the best Devin album since Terria, i wont give anything else away yet!

You guys were disappointed with Synchestra? I thought it was one of Devin's best albums yet. I read a few bad reviews for Synchestra and I just don't get it. Listen to it again. It's probably better than you remember it.

synchestra was OK it had its moments but it dont compare to say infinity, biomech, or terria. or hell even physcist. IMHO

You guys were disappointed with Synchestra? I thought it was one of Devin's best albums yet. I read a few bad reviews for Synchestra and I just don't get it. Listen to it again. It's probably better than you remember it.

synchestra was OK it had its moments but it dont compare to say infinity, biomech, or terria. or hell even physcist. IMHO

Woah! I don't see that at all. I'm not going to say which is the best but Synchestra is easily on par or better than Infinity, OM, Terria, and Physisct. To me it has the biggest emotional impact. Could you be more specific on why you don't like it that much? I think some of you are judging it on the automatic if it's new then it's not as good as the older stuff rating system. Which sadly seems to be the music rating standard.

Seems as if Synchestra is extremely underrated around here. How odd.

And why is this thread not locked yet?

You guys were disappointed with Synchestra? I thought it was one of Devin's best albums yet. I read a few bad reviews for Synchestra and I just don't get it. Listen to it again. It's probably better than you remember it.

synchestra was OK it had its moments but it dont compare to say infinity, biomech, or terria. or hell even physcist. IMHO

Woah! I don't see that at all. I'm not going to say which is the best but Synchestra is easily on par or better than Infinity, OM, Terria, and Physisct. To me it has the biggest emotional impact. Could you be more specific on why you don't like it that much? I think some of you are judging it on the automatic if it's new then it's not as good as the older stuff rating system. Which sadly seems to be the music rating standard.

well, i can't talk for the others, but i totally agree with putting inf, om, terria and phsssst over synchestra. well, maybe not terria. and of course, i still dig synch very much!

see: with terria, but even more with ae, devin has changed his style of writing quite a bit. lots of us got into his music before that and dig the old records for the rather simple, but mighty melodies, the more "primitive" production and the fresher ideas. that's why i dig physicist so much: it's one courageous but simple idea, put into a clearly understandable record.
it's like he created the basic pieces for his musical world on those older records and now starts to work with them.

with the newer records, since ae, i often feel like it's just too much of everything, but at the same time not pointy or defined enough to hold my attention over the whole playing time. synchestra is mighty, contains bazillions of fine moments, and can surely touch you, but from the second half on, it also becomes a massively layered mountain of emotional heaviness that i can hardly enjoy. it kinda forces me into a state that i find hard to deal with. pulls me down in some way. i can understand that many people like that, though, but i'd love that record much more if it had more gaia/notes from africa and less judgement/lullaby.
synch would be one of my faves if he had left out those deep, slow and "tragic" parts in the second half of the record. but as it is, it's just too much of everything and too little of something definite. that's also the reason why i can't enjoy ae as a whole.

one word about the production. making city or infinity sound like they do was surely a hard task, and they are both loaded with sounds. but still, they leave some free space for the mind to explore. om is even so vast and cool that it literally cleans your head, although it's a really deep and touching record. but terria is already so compressed and stuffed that it can crush you, and synchestra is even more like that. this kind of sound works for phsssst or syl, but it hardly helps a record like synchestra.

well, you didn't ask me, but i just felt like being precise on that topic. maybe some of the older fans share my point of view.

and maybe, some of the pirates can tell me where ZTO stands from that perspective. maybe?

This thread is bad news. It must suck trying to be patient and not downloading the release when you know that Dev's harshest fan absolutely adores the album.

I dunno... I didn't really like The New Black all that much and this has me somewhere in the middle as well.

It's FUN. Don't get me wrong there. It's a very fun listen, very amusing, and the storyline is enjoyable.

But as for the music itself, I can't help but think it sounds a little rehashed. There are parts that so instantly called to mind Night, Funeral, Pixillate, parts of Alien etc. that I can't help but think that it's just reusing old ideas where it fits. It just doesn't grab me musically like some of Devin's classic releases. And he's still not doing is amazing soloing anymore like on Terria and AE

Once again, don't get me wrong - this is a very fun listen, I just don't think that musically it has a lot of replay value for me. I dunno.

Although the humor is there, I didn't think of it as a fun album. It's really slow and dreamy. Fun would be like Sunshine and Happiness. this album has no Sunshine and Happiness.

Anyway, no leak talk allowed I think. I just had to add some yang to the yin in your post. Hopefully Coma comes and deletes this soon.

synchestra was OK it had its moments but it dont compare to say infinity, biomech, or terria.

Ziltoid, i agree, is the best Devin album since Terria, i wont give anything else away yet!

That's a bold statement—especially considering Devin has released some amazing music since.

And why do so many people here have this doomsday outlook on threads. The moderation here is way too heavy-handed sometimes. Just create one spoilers thread. People are going to download it. We know this. I know that sort of promotes downloading, but less so than someone going "WHOOHOO! OMFG! Teh Ziltoid has leak3d! LOLZ ROFL. You know where to find it! FTW!" A spoilers thread is much more supportive of the music and Devin, I think, than simply allowing threads like this to run a few pages only to be deleted.

As much as I hate downloading, it happens. Just give people a corner to whisper in.

You guys were disappointed with Synchestra? I thought it was one of Devin's best albums yet. I read a few bad reviews for Synchestra and I just don't get it. Listen to it again. It's probably better than you remember it.

synchestra was OK it had its moments but it dont compare to say infinity, biomech, or terria. or hell even physcist. IMHO

Woah! I don't see that at all. I'm not going to say which is the best but Synchestra is easily on par or better than Infinity, OM, Terria, and Physisct. To me it has the biggest emotional impact. Could you be more specific on why you don't like it that much? I think some of you are judging it on the automatic if it's new then it's not as good as the older stuff rating system. Which sadly seems to be the music rating standard.

well, i can't talk for the others, but i totally agree with putting inf, om, terria and phsssst over synchestra. well, maybe not terria. and of course, i still dig synch very much!

see: with terria, but even more with ae, devin has changed his style of writing quite a bit. lots of us got into his music before that and dig the old records for the rather simple, but mighty melodies, the more "primitive" production and the fresher ideas. that's why i dig physicist so much: it's one courageous but simple idea, put into a clearly understandable record.
it's like he created the basic pieces for his musical world on those older records and now starts to work with them.

with the newer records, since ae, i often feel like it's just too much of everything, but at the same time not pointy or defined enough to hold my attention over the whole playing time. synchestra is mighty, contains bazillions of fine moments, and can surely touch you, but from the second half on, it also becomes a massively layered mountain of emotional heaviness that i can hardly enjoy. it kinda forces me into a state that i find hard to deal with. pulls me down in some way. i can understand that many people like that, though, but i'd love that record much more if it had more gaia/notes from africa and less judgement/lullaby.
synch would be one of my faves if he had left out those deep, slow and "tragic" parts in the second half of the record. but as it is, it's just too much of everything and too little of something definite. that's also the reason why i can't enjoy ae as a whole.

one word about the production. making city or infinity sound like they do was surely a hard task, and they are both loaded with sounds. but still, they leave some free space for the mind to explore. om is even so vast and cool that it literally cleans your head, although it's a really deep and touching record. but terria is already so compressed and stuffed that it can crush you, and synchestra is even more like that. this kind of sound works for phsssst or syl, but it hardly helps a record like synchestra.

well, you didn't ask me, but i just felt like being precise on that topic. maybe some of the older fans share my point of view.

and maybe, some of the pirates can tell me where ZTO stands from that perspective. maybe?

Thanks for your opinion. Impressions like this let me into the mind of a Synchestra hater. I guess I can defiantly see the layered and compressed criticisms but I really like that and I hope Devin doesn't listen to that advice. Synchestra and Alien are unlike any album I've ever heard before in the Omniverese. I almost feel the exact opposite as you for Judgement and A Simple Lullaby. The emotion is just so stirring on those two.

The album is so perfect that I almost feel like a fool for picking out standout tracks like Hypergeek and Babysong. Plus you can add the whole Alien/Synchestra 2 part combo to the mix that gives Synchestra even more depth.

I think a lot of people's problem may be that Synchestra is just too good of an album. The production and emotions are so soul crushing on Alien and Synchestra that many may be turned off by it and in search of lighter fare.