Liturgy - 93696 ALBUM REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
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93696 not only stands as one of the best avant-garde metal albums you’ll hear this year, but also serves as a conceptual retrospective celebrating 10+ years of music from Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix’s Liturgy.
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FAV TRACKS: DAILY BREAD, DJENNARATION, CAELA, ANGEL OF SOVEREIGNTY, HAELEGEN II, ANGEL OF HIERARCHY, RED CROWN II, ANGEL OF EMANCIPATION, 93696, HAELEGEN II REPRISE, ANGEL OF INDIVIDUATION, IMMORTAL LIFE II
LEAST FAV TRACK: ANANON
LITURGY - 93696 / 2023 / THRILL JOCKEY / LITURGY
9/10 www.theneedled...
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
I like the image of Anthony neatly folding his yellow flannel in his baggage as he goes on vacation
I put my hamster in a sock and slammed it against the furniture
He scrunkles the red one in his pocket
You didn’t hear about the divorce?
@@TippyHippy What a beautiful statement
@@TippyHippy RIP
The homeless Fantano era has been interesting so far, I must say
Bro just went “🚫🏠”
Isn't the correct word for this is "houseless"?
Is he moving?
@@veganjotaro you didnt hear about the divorce?
@Crisp no, it did cross my mind when I read the comment, though it seemed like they were never going to split apart but I guess that wasn't the case, I feel sorry for both, but hopefully it was all in good terms.
One of the best album of the year, I still prefer 90210 but Travis truly killed it with this one.
Lol facts
👏👏🗣🗣WE FORGIVE U TRAVIS!!!
So true
"IT'S LIT(URGY)!" -Travis on this album probably
W 😂
Love how all these 9/10 records like this album, Scaring The Hoes and Lana's Ocean Blvd all dropped on the same day
I don’t think I’ve ever seen him hand out this many 9s in such little time. It’s still only the first half of the year too… pretty exciting!
Honestly same. I thought giving STH and Ocean Blvd a 9/10 back to back was insane, but here we are with a third one
The holy day.
That was a crazy day. The Swans single dropped that day too
@@jerrys1 Everyone wanted to realise good stuff that day.
Fantano: "93696 is a 9/10"
Liturgy: (Drops 1036106)
Fantano: Holy sh-
Brilliant.
Can't believe I audibly laughed at this bruh I gotta stop abusing drugs fr
It's a reference to bits/kHz. 96 leave you at some -75 dB while bitness doesn't matter nearly as much with some -96 dB maybe. 96 kHz is enough to enjoy the music. The rest doesn't matter, but DSD of 128 and above really delivers. Edit analogally.
40 years later still phenomenal lp and review, rest in peace Anthony
Yeah but haven’t you heard about that tell all with all the accusations???
It's a shame he had to go that way... who knew a potted plant could be so dangerous.
@@YTJVVVyeah but that’s what happens when people invite THAT many circus members and gardeners to compete in such a deadly way
This meme has already gotten super old and super bland
anymin watching thess ar 2387™?™
Liturgy being their own genre checks out
I'll assume that one black metal YT channel is now gonna have field day with a new grift material🤭
It's cause people get mad when you call them black metal, even tho other projects just a weird are still considered black metal
@@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435 You mean Hipster Black Metal? that guy is absolutely awful, basically a far-right asshole that hates on any music that wasn't recorded in a shed in a forest and isn't TRVE KVLT
@@andrei11dr Thats because to many black metal is an ideology/bubble that doesnt accept outsiders. Deafheaven 10 years ago got insane amounts of hate just for trying something new.
@Devilbhro the Savage Deafheaven's sound wasn't even that new or weird, groups like Agalloch, Alcest, Borknagar, Altar of Plagues and Blut Aus Nord where doing similar experiments way before Deafheaven came out. The only reason Deafheaven got shit was because they were somewhat popular, which is pretty ridiculous considering that even people who don't listen to metal know the cover of Transylvanian Hunger
Haven't listened to the album but yes I agree it is a 9/10.
7/10 for me, it was a bit longer than it needed to be and the pacing was a bit rough but some parts of it were really great. If it was around 40 minutes of the better parts then it would be AOTY contender for me.
Really? Can you please explain how the song “daily bread” is anything but annoying, out of key, and absolutely unbearable to listen to? Sounds like a meth head trying to sing. Not to mention the vocals are clipping hard as hell.
Found Lil B’s account
SCARING THE BROS
t's a raging strong 9 to a lit 10 for me. I love the orchestrals this time and think they're integrated better than on HAQQ or origin of the alimonies. As are the wild experimentations and electronic elements. The production reeeally elevates it too. Album absolutely fucks.
SCARING THE CONSERVATIVES
trans-ition
THIS IS ALL I WANTED! THANK YOU
Mid taste in music HAHAHA just kidding love you BRAD.
Three albums released on the same day all getting 9s is wild
93696/10? That's gotta be a new record!
Hahah w comment underrated comment and pretty unique and probably the only comment that made me giggle in this comment’s section video. Even do I would prefer a comment that has few emojis to the mood but this is was good as well. I would give this comment 8/10.
This greenscreen setup reminds me of the old reviews with a tighter angle where the album cover would bleed behind his glasses lmao
@7:50 regarding infinity, EXACTLY my thoughts. can't stop listening to the album and going "how much intense can this song get???" it just keeps building!
That yellow flannel gonna need a wash soon with the amount of 9's dropping this month
So glad that the band have been steadily getting more recognition over the last few albums. Been a massive fan since Aesthetica but felt like everyone just wrote them off after the infamous manifesto
In terms of musical composition, Haela has to be approaching creative genius. Absolutely brilliant.
Approaching??????
my guy it's literally just kinda shitty melodic black metal with glitch elements, of which are SUPER easy to do (you literally just adjust the speed of a sample in Ableton without changing the pitch, anyone can do it). if this sounds good to you you REALLY gotta listen to some stuff with better, "composition."
@@heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382 give me recommendations please
@@heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382 Shut up dork
@@heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382 What do you gain from being reductive?
The fact that he can carry 2 different flannel shirts in his luggage is insane. No one has ever done that before. Can't believe I'm witnessing history unfold before my very eyes. What's next? 3??
It's true. I tried to do that one time and the TSA confiscated my luggage and violated me behind close doors as punishment.
Fantano got inspired by 93696 so much that he transcended his room
This was such a freaking fun listen.
God damn, this album is incredible. Easily a contender for album of the year, for sure.
No way bro just greenscreened his usual setup 💀
Love how he listed the genre in the description as "Liturgy"
you only gave this album a 9 because if you reviewed it four more times you’d have to give it a 3, 6, 9, and 6 respectively
Liturgy being their own genre speaks volumes…
Sometimes you know you'll like an album based on the art alone.
the cover is pretty ugly ngl lol
@@swanswanswanswanswanswanswan thank you
i find it fascinating how similar this feels to alice coltrane. maybe branca even. beautiful transcendent striving overtones.
I preordered this and listened to it on the first day. Haven't gone back to it because, while I really liked it the first time around it takes SO FUCKING MUCH mental energy and attention to truly digest, but you also kinda have to listen to it front to back for the full effect. I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who felt this way.
8:18 When you have your phone on silent but it starts ringing on the desk
Hope you have her on to discuss the new project! Your last interview was great!
Too late I already gave it a 9. This time you're the one copying me Anthony.
This album sounds like a demon being tortured, but the demon kinda likes it.
Let me guess... Yellow Flannel he likes it.
Let me guess... It's one of those glitchy noise albums.
is this the 9/10 year
but honestly a lot of very solid yet varied music this yeae, cant wait to see the first 10's of this year (if we get any)
This year has been so great for music already
OMG HE REVIEWED IT WTF !!! THANK YOU FANTANO!
instantly as i was listening to Djennaration i was absolutely hooked. this album, and band as a whole are outstanding.
How the FUCK isn't Antigone II on your favourite tracks
Haven't listened to it but the cover looks cool so I agree with your score
ananon is amazing. it being in in worst tracks couldnt be further from the truth
Right? Especially with Red Crown II in the favorites
One of your best reviews imo, loved it thank you!
Fantano greenscreening himself into his own room is a pretty funny touch
I'm soooo excited to see them live in Chicago this summer. Been a fan since HAQQ came out in 2019.
60 years later and the only thing of him o remember is his deleted hospice review
Melon man looking like a glitch in the simulation on this one
Ikr
you now love 700 albums according to the loved list playlist. nice
somehow you holding a microphone just makes this review hilarious
can not believe how moved i was by their live music 100/10 recommeded, super ultra excited to catch another set.
Damn the camera quality has gotten so better, and it’s also kinda weird seeing him in a greenscreen
It’s lit…urgy
Aye Cal?
Very interesting album! Can't wait for the version without the mountain lion in the background!
*Insert obvious joke about Fantano literally giving the album a 9.3696 out of 10 here*
Crazy that three 9/10 albums were all released on the same day, March 24, 2023
Anthony, you should review the new Nickle Creek album, get some bluegrass in the mix
Damn 3 9s all dropped on the same day
Fantano just received his bulk order of 9's from ebay.
the yellowest flannel
This album is a 10 and possibly the best album of all time
Anthony screaming Liturgy deez nuts to blast beats is not a review
I can’t believe he brought he’s red AND yellow flannels on vacation for emergency reviews
I didn't even realize there was a new liturgy album out. I'll have to grab that.
a 9/93696 seems harsh anthony but i respect your opinion
I can definitely appreciate 93696 as a work of art. It's definitely that. There's definitely intention and meaning and poetry to be found here. But I guess for me, it feels deliberately unapproachable. The lyrics are literally incomprehensible without looking them up, songs sometimes go on for ages without any clear sense of direction or progression, and the quality musicianship is just drowning in an avant-garde ocean of glitches, weird mixing choices, and deliberately blunt and grating musical passages. And it just keeps GOING. Maybe if you've watched Hunt-Hendrix's online lectures you'll have an easier time understanding what she's going for, but for me, this was the first time I actually listened to a full Liturgy album all the way through, and I just felt like I was tied to the back of a truck and dragged along a ride to a destination I couldn't recognize. In contrast, Ashenspire's "Hostile Architecture" from last year (which you gave the same score) managed to be experimental and dark while still actually being an engaging listening experience for me, and not just because I could actually comprehend the lyrics and themes, but also because it had the good sense to not overstay its welcome. THAT album deserved its 9/10. As depressing as it often gets, I still sometimes just put it on to listen to when I'm in a particular mood.
But I can't imagine I'll ever give 93696 another listen. I didn't HATE it, or even really DISLIKE it, but it was very alienating and it didn't really seem to have a point to the alienation. After five songs, I just had Genius open the entire time so I could actually understand what Hunt-Hendrix was screaming, because otherwise it all sounded basically the same, and in my opinion, if I need secondary resources in order to even have a tentative grasp on what an artist is trying to communicate, the art isn't really doing a good job of communicating itself. I kept wanting the album to draw me in, but it just wasn't happening. Every interesting point on the album is sandwiched between monotonous guitar riffs and a painfully overused skipping glitch effect. And that's to say nothing of the whole Ark Work tie-in, which honestly just feels like homework. If Hunt-Hendrix wants to artistically explore the nature of divinity and other metaphysical concepts, more power to her, but it feels like it ought to come from a place that's trying to help other people understand and feel these largely intangible concepts through the power of music. Instead, it just kind of comes off as massively self-indulgent philosophical wankery buried under 90 minutes of well-composed and expertly-performed (but mostly indistinguishable) metal interspersed with occasional flares of classical instrumentation.
And I mean, sometimes there's a place for self-indulgence in art, but 93696 seems to exist in this space where it presents itself like it has something really important to communicate, but it also paradoxically doesn't want to communicate it IN THE MUSIC without several layers of seemingly unnecessary obfuscation. Almost as though Hunt-Hendrix expects the listener to already know what they're getting into. And at that point, who is the music actually reaching and affecting? A bunch of metalhead philosophy majors and fans of Hunt-Hendrix who already read through the Ark Works and watched all the RUclips videos and read all the lyrics?
The album is impressive and clearly full of passion and deep thought, but I can't imagine a situation where I'd recommend it to someone who hasn't already listened to it. The only people I can imagine enjoying this album have probably already listened to it five times.
6/10. Above average and ambitious, and if you're one of the thousand or so people who've actually done all the homework leading into it, I imagine it can be transcendent at times, but it's unnecessarily long and too thematically vague to actually stand on its own as an album in my opinion.
Yeah, this should not have been your first Liturgy album. Totally get that it’s a very challenging album and it’s definitely not for everyone. But maybe you could try some of their earlier, more digestible works and come back to this one.
@@c4gam1ng12 What would you recommend starting with?
@@c4gam1ng12Follow-up a week later: I ended up just listening to the entire discography back to front. I'd say my favorite is "Origin of the Alimonies", and it also happens to be the shortest, so that probably would have been the ideal jumping-on point. I'd say that if a person listens to "Alimonies" and is curious to listen to more, "H.A.Q.Q." and "The Ark Work" are probably tied for second-best in my mind. "H.A.Q.Q." if they liked "Alimonies", "Ark Work" if they say they don't like the screaming vocals.
I'll also say that after marinating in Liturgy's acquired taste for a week or so, most of my original criticism of "93696" still holds true, but I've learned to respect and even appreciate that Hunt-Hendrix actively wants Liturgy to be at least a little bit inscrutable. I still just think "93696" is far too long and lacks the strong thematic resonance I felt with "Alimonies", which I consider to be a genuine 9/10. That said, I could maybe be talked into a light 7 if this truly ends up being the final Liturgy project, which would lend it a lot more meaning as a sort of book end to all the projects that came before, which is definitely a dimension I could not grok before on my first listen.
Thanks for encouraging me to keep with it.
my thoughts exactly. though, I've never been into Liturgy even in my peak black metal phase. I respect the artistry, but it's not for me.
@@GordonSlamsay Over the last couple months, I've found it makes for surprisingly good background music while working (if you have decent headphones), so I actually find myself coming back to Liturgy more often than I initially expected.
Got this vynil, its so beautiful
Anthony if you need somewhere to live I'm sure someone has a spare room you can use until you get back on your feet
Hmltd review when?
My dyslexic ass had problems with that album title ngl
If this was called 10101 you would give it 10 Anthony
Can you review Ellie Goulding's "Higher Than Heaven"
Great Album... AOTY Contender for sure.
This new format is tripping me out
wow a lot of very high reviews lately
He just looks so strange with the mic on his hand. Great review!
A last masterpiece with the involvement audio engineer Steve Albini. RIP.
The composition on this album is just out of this world
Depeche Mode, Memento Mori, PLEASE
your shirt looks freshly ironed nice
here after discovering liturgy at primavera yesterday, absolutely insane live
Wait, isn't liturgy that band everyone absolutely hated a few years ago? Now everyone likes them. What happened?
I think just the black metal fans hate them, traditional fans, they hate deafheaven and all stuff they call " hipster"
In her interview with Fader, Ravenna said a lot of more vocal critics of her have actually apologized.
But also… they’re just good. There’s no way black metal fans en masse could hate them. If you listen to this and just reject it because of the manifesto that’s terribly unblackmetal of folks.
I still hate them!
This review is great, but ahhhh, oooo, the mixing ohhhh
I would like Liturgy if it weren't for the same vocal sounds over ...and over and over again. It's unbearable.
I saw them play this whole album live in queens the day before it dropped. It was incredible! The long passages were perfect for moshing to.
I was there! Right up front. I feel everyone that listens to them shd have the pleasure to hear it live first!
only red and yellow flannel this year!
What’s going with the camera view?
i seriously think you need to review olley toomey aka tutankhamun's self titled album, such a diamond in the rough
NF Hope Review, Royce Da 5”9 The Heaven Experience Review
When I read the description I was half expecting a 10
LOVE this album
Why is your entire background a green screen antnee
he's moving stuff around
why is blud not reviewing daniel caesers new album
If by light 9 you meant 10 I agree whole heartedly melon boy
Liturgy being it’s own genre eh? Wow
This has been in my queue for a while, I've avoided it because of the run time and maybe I'll just give it a chance.
Needs more Worm. Your recent reviews are severely lacking in The Worm type variety.
Greenscreen on the main channel?!
Bruh the new green screen look AINT it.
THE NEEDLE DROP ALBUM/EP/RATING/MIXTAPE RATING 2023
10:
9: JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes, Lana Del Rey - Ocean Blvd, Liturgy - 93696
8: Parannoul - After The Magic, Paramore - This Is Why, Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Tony Molina - Into the Fade, Model/Actriz - Dogsbody, Slowthai - UGLY, 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs, Navy Blue - Ways of Knowing, The HIRS Collective - We're Still Here
7: Weezer - SZNZ: Winter, Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here., Horse Lords - Comradely Objects, Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy, Skrillex - Quest for Fire, Yeat - Aftërlyfe, shame - Food for Worms, Kali Uchis - Red Moon in Venus, Fever Ray - Radicals Romantics, Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush Hall, boygenius - the record, tricot - Fudeki
6: Ab-Soul - Herbert, Sematary - Butcher House, JIMMY - *GHETTOLAND, Kelela - Raven, Gorillaz - Cracker Island, Xiu Xiu - Ignore Grief, Algiers - Shook, Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord...
5: Ice Spice - Like...?, Trippie Red - Mansion Musik, Sam Smith - Gloria, YLT - This Stupid World, Flume - Things Don't Always Go the Way You Plan, Liv.e - Girl In the Half Pearl, Logic - College Park, U.S Girls - Bless This Mess, Don Toliver - LoveSick, M83 - Fantasy
4: Miley Cyrus - Endlees Summer Vacation, Larry June & The Alchemist - The Great Escape
3: Mac Demarco - Five Easy Hot Dogs, Skrillex - Don't Get to Close, Fall Out Boy - So Much (for) Stardust,
2: Måneskin - Rush!, Macklemore - Ben, Rae Sremmurd - Sremm4Life,
1:
NOT GOOD: Hardy's the mockingbird & THE CROW, Lil Pump 2
NOT BAD:
Joke Rating: Melanie Martinez - Portals
I’m SO shocked this isn’t a 10
Ikr. And Ananon in the worst tacks??😭
I’d like Liturgy a lot more if Hunt-Hendrix wasn’t a blue link baby tbh
holding my breath rushing to the bottom of the description
YOU NEED TO REVIEW "LOW ROAR" PLEASE