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Stefan

So you've tumbled upon the incontrovertibly noisy and conglobulated mass that is Ruin's Refusal Fossil. If you have ever heard one song by these crazy Japanese, you'd know that this is not for the faint of heart, or faint of ear (although being hard of hearing might help you appreciate the album.) Two thirds of this album is new material and the other is older stuff played live, and concerning those, for the most part stick with the originals (Except a brief intriguing Prog Ruins-style medley with many a tunes you should recognize.) Despite Ruins' rough sound that just melds together, they really do some interesting things, mostly with rhythms, that can't necessarily be put into words. I'll give this album three stars for the good material (Title Track, Uskilsdos Zaimm, Eccentric Ditch, Sill Life, Heraklion.) The other stuff... ehh, it kind of sounds like a noisy and conglobulated mass, if that makes any sense.

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bartymj

As they did with previous album Hyderomastgroningem, insane Japanese band Zeuhl mix their regular brand of thrashing around in a small room full of instruments, with more refined (but still heavily Avant-Garde) genuine compositional talent. The title track gives the impression that you're in for some chaos, but at Stara Planina and Eccentric Ditch we actually have something that's almost on the verge of catchy. Much of what follows though is noise and nonsense I'm afraid! That's followed by live versions of some previous tracks - of no more interest than the "studio" efforts. As a musical trivia quiz, check out the 3 minute prog rock medley at the end.

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RUINS Refusal Fossil ratings only

• Tauhd Zaïa
• Faaip_De_Oiad (... thisistherighthole)
• drain-o (Jacques Brenier)
• syfon (Andrzej Topolski)
• djf (David)
• hristy (hristian marinov)
• Glore (Lorenzo Gentilini)
• Angel3mil (Angel Emil)
• Zem (Jake)
• CillianIsDecent (Cillian Walsh Skelly)
• DonovanPunch (Donovan Punch)
• Mirakaze (Mira) SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Eclectic, JRF/Canterbury, Avant/Zeuhl

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