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   I'd like to post a response to Grobsch's (aka Flavio's) review of Edensong's album the Fruit Fallen.
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=191095

I think the review should be removed for the following reasons:
1) It goes against guideline # 1 in it's use of English.  The English is very broken and the places where the reviewer doesn't seem to be using an online translator fails to back up concrete reasons why they dislike the album.  Also, the reviewer has used a phrase I wouldn't consider English to describe the band.  That phrase is "tim-tam-tum."  This can not be found in the dictionary and even if if looked up online can only be found on sites in Italian and Portugese.  The reviewer is from Brazil, go figure.  Also, when the reviewer tries to back up his/her reasons, the English is incomprehensible.  the reviewer says:

Most people forgot what was progressive in the past. Just add a flute behind the vocalist - which cannot stop to sing a second - please stop to sing!!

What does this mean?  That a singer should stop to sing for a little when a flute is playing in the background or that the flute shouldn't be playing when a singer is singing?!?!  Does adding a flute while the vocalist sings make it progressive rock of the past or is it the opposite? This is completely incoherent.  I'm thoroughly confused.

2)  It goes against guideline #4.  It is not intelligent and not considerate because it fails to back up why the album is "annoying," refers to the album as a "practical joke," with no basis for why, and continues to compare the album in levels of annoyingness.  Here is one example.  The reviewer states:

The second song is called The Baptism and its as annoying as the first one.

This is the only remark the reviewer has about the song Baptism.  When the reviewer described the "first one," comments like, "Neo Pop Annoying Prog with Rush resemblances and other instruments like flute,"were made and do not help reviewers understand the piece.  What does "neo pop annoying prog," mean, and how does it resemble Rush?  What if the reader doesn't know Rush.  The Rush resemblance should be described.  Then the reviewer comments on the 4th song saying, 

" When I reached the fourth song, The Prayer, even though is less annoying but still far from being a good song, I was almost giving up. I started to think I got the wrong album. Perhaps it was a pratical joke somene did to me."

The reviewer has yet again clung to the annoying level comparative strategy, claims it's far from being a good song without basis, and tops it off with lines that reference listening to the wrong album or it being a practical joke.  I'm sorry, that's just terrible commentary.

3) Lastly, this review goes against guideline's 5, 6, and 7. #5  Keep the review pertinent to the specific album concerned.  The reviewer says, "I miss Gentle Giant," randomly without making any comparison to Edensong.  #6 - This doesn't even benefit a reader who wouldn't like this album.  It is useless, as it makes general statements like ," The Sith Day, the sixty song, the same, just the same." (I guess referring to the same tim-tam-tum sound as the predecessor piece).  The reviewer should also check their English here as a reader might interpret this piece as a reference to Star Wars  (The Sith Day?) with a sixties style to it (sixty song?).  The song is called the Sixth Day and is the sixth song on the album.

Guidline #7- I doubt this review will make sense within five years today.  It doesn't even make sense now with all of the reasons I have stated.

I hope you consider my response and request to move this outrageous and incoherent review of Edensong's album the Fruit Fallen.  Thank you very much.