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"Because we all think we know what, say, love is. But try to explain why you love that thing you love to somebody who thinks that thing is shit and you’ll get the sieve through which Shining squeeze their ideas. It’s not so weird that the first track of this fourth album reclaims the title of the band’s third album -- this band thrives on the gravitas of kitsch. But kitsch is sort of everything, and to understand why this album is fucking astounding, you need to understand why some ageing relative takes so much solace in Dalton figurines, or why Warhammer and coin & card role-playing shops still thrive in our MMORPG society, or why “In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster” (once an album, now easily consumable!) can move from shifting metal time signatures to serious techno keyboards to funk bass cowbell manipulation to sludge-core bridges adorned with hilarious rock guitar leads to feedback to a nauseating flute assault to heavy organ chords to the opening riffs again with the flute playing overtop to a wild jazz/rock/metal/Si! Sa!/bass cluster-fuck to that gorgeous drum-led outro that shifts and spills and anticipates its own demise with a soaring eulogy."

en dit is maar een klein stukje van de recensie schuine streep essay over de beste plaat van 2007 tot nu toe. klik en lees een artikel dat qua benadering en weirdness kan wedijveren met de muziek - en dat vind ik gigantische prestatie.