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Fax Arcana

The Ritual In Routine
2004
Alone

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Review by: Jesse
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Published on November 12th 2004

Holy cow this sounds terrible. I'm talking like the singer from Disturbed awful, because that's what this guy sounds like. Like the fucking singer from Disturbed. I guess that most of these guys are in screamo bands, or used to be. Either way, this is some uninteresting shit. The bass sounds so apathetic, like it doesn't even want to be played, or the guy is ashamed of playing with this band. The guitars are trying to do this artsy-shit where they just noodle around bending at random intervals: think "One Note Song" by Tenacious D. Honestly. This band took a one minute and twenty three second long joke and made a six track EP out of it.

Their lyrics don't make up for it either. "Come to me naked and unashamed. Let me whisper an oblivion in your ear. I'll be the clot in the marrow that sickens your song. I'm the blood up the sleeve." Way to be vague and not the least bit poetic. "When did wake the asp in me with a passion for blasphemy and this so-called craft for crooked nails?" Hey, dipshit. THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE. You can even claim poetics as an excuse for your terrible sentence structure because there is nothing poetic about gibberish meant to be poetic.

Evey song sounds the same. There is no structure or sense to it, which is bad because there is supposed to be. The press sheet said that I'm supposed to "Think Bobby Knight throwing a chair, without the verbal abuse." Tell you the truth, all I can think about is how much I'd rather be making a burrito or playing some Contra III: The Alien Wars on my SNES emulator. In fact, that's what I'll do.






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    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 22, 2004 at 4:34 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    i think this guy is not very perceptive.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 19, 2004 at 1:26 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    this record fucking rocks..think of a cross between the honor system and and hint hint. fax arcana are the bomb. you should defenitly check it out...p.s note to the reviewer: YOU KNOW NOTHING

    Posted by Jesse on 2004-11-14 22:22:57
    My Score:

    To respond to the guy below me:

    I get sent all the records that are so bad that everyone else refuses to review them. Seriously. Those are what Scott sent me. We'll see how Brian runs the show when my next package gets here.

    Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 14, 2004 at 6:53 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    what the fuck...why do Alone Records releases keep getting sent to this ignoramus

    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 9:44 PM (EST)
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    oh man i would have fucking laughed so hard if people weren't trying to watch a movie 2 feet away

    this score is for something else really clever that i'm not clever enough to think of

    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 3:29 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    Score is for Contra 3 and jesse's recent reviews.

    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 11:50 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    Score for the Contra games

    Posted by Jesse on 2004-11-13 11:23:20
    My Score:

    Tell you the truth, I can usually sell them for like 25 cents.

    Posted by bemused on 2004-11-13 01:07:44
    My Score:

    Jesse you must have an awfully big 1 star cd collection by now

    -Chris-

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 at 10:42 PM (EST)
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    Jesse is by far the sloppiest "Staff" reviewer on this site. Seriously, he sounds like the douches over at www.punkbands.com. I love it.

    Posted by bogey4 on 2004-11-12 21:25:12
    My Score:

    Score is for Jesse developing a unique style of reviewing that is consistantly entertaining.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 12, 2004 at 8:59 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    HAHA. How come you can always tell by the band name and album name that the band completely blows. Maybe its just me though.

    Posted by lou on 2004-11-12 19:57:18
    My Score:

    another review i knew was from jesse in the first two sentences. again, not that i'm complaining...

    Posted by swingline on 2004-11-12 19:37:26
    My Score:

    this is the shit my friends write in their profiles. horrible "poems"

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