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Cretin - Stranger review




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Band: Cretin
Album: Stranger
Release date: December 2014


01. It
02. Ghost Of Teeth And Hair
03. The Beast And The Drowning Bucket
04. Knights Of The Rail
05. We Live In A Cave
06. Sandwich For The Attic Angel
07. Stranger
08. Mister Frye, The Janitor Guy
09. Mary Is Coming
10. Honey And Venom
11. Freakery
12. They Buried The Lunchbox
13. Husband?
14. How To Wreck Your Life In Three Days

Cretin! Damn that was a name I haven't heard in a while. I bet some things have changed (Oooh hoho!).

A few years back I found the debut just winking at me at the local store. While scared shitless for the hallucination, I bought the album out of curiosity. This wish to know more was probably inspired both by the so bad-it's-awesome artwork and the hilarious stories for each song. So when their sophomore album arrived at my virtual door, I was very curious to see how the band evolved (hah!) after so many years.

First of all, love the artwork. Dig the colors and texture. The music hit me hard the first time as well. The songwriting is way more varied and the guitar work is definitely more entertaining. The riffs are just killer now and the solos keep things fresh enough throughout the whole album. The vocals didn't change though (Haha? Ok, I'm done. Sorry). Unfortunately the same problem I encountered the first time came along. During the second half I just felt like I heard it already but I continued because I'm a professional *chuckles* and because I needed to read the next weird story (seriously, check some of the lyrics. Ghost Of Teeth And Hair is awesome). The difference now is that the déjà vu was felt much later than with the debut, all thanks to the improved songwriting.

So... Yeah. Cretin have clearly improved their music and image (:3). Stranger is a short and effective album to get your groovy and no-bullshit deathgrind fix and if they keep improving things at this rate I'm sure even greater things will arrive in the future.


Rating breakdown
Performance: 8
Songwriting: 7
Originality: 6
Production: 8





Written on 30.12.2014 by A lazy reviewer but he is so cute you'd forgive him for it.


Comments

Comments: 6   Visited by: 103 users
30.12.2014 - 06:12
J. N.
Account deleted
Hahaha, fuck you for all the mockery or whatever the fuck. Can you say "no", though?



Still haven't checked this album out, but I can remember I quite enjoyed the debut. But, this is even better?
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30.12.2014 - 10:49
Rating: 7
Ilham
Giant robot
Wow I didn't expect you to publish it so "soon". To be honest I started writing it because I was expecting you to throw the towel .

I didn't once mention the change. You showed your true colours you cisgender bastard haha. Album is cool by the way, nothing ground-breaking, yeah.
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30.12.2014 - 13:42
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Hey hey hey hey. The change was great. Full respect to her for doing what she felt was right. But I just had to have a laugh with it and considering they have songs like "daddy's little girl" (check out those lyrics), I don't think they would mind at all.

You dont get this chance every day!

And yes Johan this is much better than the debut.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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30.12.2014 - 13:49
Rating: 7
Ilham
Giant robot
Hey I was just joking .
I listened to it again this morning, and I realise I would have been a little mean if I had finished writing the review. It becomes very repetitive too fast in my opinion.
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30.12.2014 - 17:59
Alex F
Slick Dick Rick
I've seen this popping up on end-of-year lists all over the place, but for some reason I still haven't checked it out. Sounds like something I'd at least get some enjoyment out of, so I'll definitely give it a shot at some point.
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30.12.2014 - 18:07
Rating: 7
Ilham
Giant robot
Written by Alex F on 30.12.2014 at 17:59

I've seen this popping up on end-of-year lists all over the place, but for some reason I still haven't checked it out. Sounds like something I'd at least get some enjoyment out of, so I'll definitely give it a shot at some point.

Yeah it's literally everywhere. But to be honest it's not good enough to be in the top ten releases of every site, maybe it's just because it was released two weeks ago; it's fresh in their minds.
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