Best TMV Studio Album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Torn between De-loused and Amp, but gotta choose the latter. Been listening to it a lot.

Amputechture is great but I still stand by Frances.

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OpethGuitarist wrote:

Deloused, for me, is by far their best album. I think their "punk" sound fits them more aptly and works much better for them than say "Viscera Eyes" which is a decent but not really entertaining attempt at being Pink Floyd.

Being Pink Floyd?

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AMputechure hasn't passed deloused in my opinion just yet. Maybe after a few listens it will, but as of now, Deloused by far

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Frances the Mute gets my vote. When I really concentrated and listened to it in detail, I finally realised its status as a masterpiece.

Wow, I can't believe Amputechture has such a lock on this. I'm just giving it my first listen so I'll wait to vote, but disregarding Amputechture I'd pick Frances The Mute.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

Deloused wins easily IMO.

Brilliant record

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Frances.

I accidently voted Amputecture when I meant to vote for Deloused.

The new album is far from perfect, but I love the direction they're going in. If they continue to make songs as great as "Day Of The Baphomets", their next album could be their masterpiece.

Kleynan wrote:

Oh whatta hell! I pick Amputechture. Volta keep expanding their sound, and the adding of brass instruments fits very nicely.

They had quite a lot of brass on Frances too (Miranda and Cassandra in particular

).

De-loused suffers from a slight "sameness" problem - it's soometimes hard for me to distinguish a song from another. It's cohesive and a convincing punch in the face, but it's not as multitextured as the following two.

I've listened to Amputechture pretty intensely and... yes, it's... it's extremely good, I mean... it's everything you would expect and more, and it can either give you a headache or leave you mesmerized and wanting to hear it again and again (or both). But I just can't seem to like it as much as Frances.

Songs like "Meccamputechture" and "Viscera Eyes" and even "Tetragrammaton" after a while are a bit too linear, which can become observable after a few listens. Not much chord variation or rhythm changes in them, although they add layers and layers of things by the end of the song. I see that as a small fault of the album, whereas in my book Frances is the perfect example of an album that is anything but linear.

Right now, Frances has literally everything I can dream I want to listen to in the course of one album, so I choose it as my favourite. Still, Amputechture is definitely the best of 2006 so far and a wonderful experience to have.

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Poll Question: Which is your favorite?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Deloused in the Comatorium	14	[34.15%]
Frances the Mute	9	[21.95%]
Amputechture	18	[43.90%]
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