My review of Isis’ In the Absence of Truth
The NY Times has also reviewed this album; the critic has the challenge of describing the album to the general public. Thus, he paints with extremely broad strokes. It would be futile for him to reference Neurosis and Godflesh as I did. His references are necessarily non-metal: U2, Tears for Fears, Tortoise, the Grateful Dead, The Cure, Sigur Ros (Stylus’ generally indie audience would likely get all the above references, except for the Dead).
But he does a respectable job of breaking down how Isis operates. Would his review move an average NYT reader to check out the album? Perhaps on iTunes, but not necessarily at the record store (I have no idea who the average NYT reader is, but I’d guess he/she has an iPod and rarely buys CD’s now). I’m not sure my review does any better, but it’s interesting to compare the different approaches.
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Very nice!
You are on crack, my friend.
I think he’s right on the money, actually.