THE HARMONY CODEX

controversial one no doubt. some may think this record is the second arrival of christ and some may think it's electronic crap. I, for one, think this is a very overhyped, overblown disc, and if it had been released by any unknown artist, no one would be talking about it. maybe they would be asking where they got the money to put together such a big production, nothing else.

yes it has great production, yes it sounds great, but the MUSIC is just not that engaging, nor the MELODIES, I find nothing to be emotional, powerful, nothing. I really don't get all the fuzz about this one, people gathering to listen to this in some dark basement. like, imagine doing this same thing just to listen to 3 olivia rodrigo songs weirdly put together with a 10 minutes tangerine dream track.

loved some songs on the record, hated some other. It wants so bad to be experimental, but it's not. pick a song from grace from drowning, then connect it with a song from the future bites, voilá! we all know steven can compose a whole bunch of music on different genres, but I don't want the foxes playing with the chickens.

anyways, here the pros: - the pop songs are generally good, they sound great and make me happy when I listen to them on separate. rock bottom, man what a ballad and what a singer, I love ninet tayeb. what life brings is an okay tune, and time is running out is fine too (liked the mikael akerfeldt version better tho). - staircase is a great tune, mixing with all those 10 minutes of nothing, spoken word, infinite pretentiousness madness. I guess imposible tightrope is ok too.

btw no i'm not a hater of steven's work at all, au contraire, love the guy (even if he is a little pretentious here and there), absolutely a fan of his remixes to 70's prog, absolutely think fear of a blank planet is one of the best records on earth, bla, bla, bla. so i'm just sharing my honest, complete thoughts. I expected peak music but I received blandness and songs I don't like (or get, it's ok if you want to make me feel that way).

ALSO: actual brutal facts, oh man, really? terrrrrrrible song, you liked that??? really??? then I have a few recomendations for you: stop with the I-only-listen-to-prog crap and go listen Kendrick Lamar, MF Doom, or Travis Scott, cause man, just BAD RAPPING, bland, cringy-ass voice effect. worst sw song since idk metanoia.