Perhaps I should get one thing straight right away, Nintendo core is a style of music I simply don’t get it. Call me old-timer or whatever, but just the prospect of a bunch of guys churning out a technical hardcore-influenced sound with bits of computer game effects included is enough to make me cringe.
Still I approached Journal’s second album with an open mind, yet just as I predicted this Sacramento four-piece fail to change my opinion. The overall impression I get from “Unlorja” is basically of a band piling riffs and arpeggios on top of another ones without a sense of focus or song structure.
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