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Uh... I've been listening to this and absolution a lot lately so enjoy. I honestly haven't given this version of the album a listen through, because the people I got the album from are liars, but it's the newer remixed version. Also got this one from YouTube and not my own music library, so let me know how the audio quality is.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly don't know how to feel about the remix, a lot of the changes in the mixing are great, but at the same time I can just hear the loudness war. It's like the best and worst of modern music mixing, but I still probably like the new version better. In a way, it feels more raw (especially songs like Hyper Music actually feel more "hyper").

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Woah, violins on Space Dementia! I dig it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Organ on Micro Cuts is really great, but they dropped the transition from Citizen Erased, why do they have to give and take?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

also HOLY BASS

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Absolution is probably my favorite album of theirs, but Origin of Symmetry is a very close second. They're both great albums. The Small Print is my favorite deep cut, and Plug in Baby is always great.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

ewwwww what did they do to the little clean guitar part in citizen erased? it had a bunch of reverb slapped on it visible-disgust

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

damn they really did kinda butcher citizen erased, i liked that lofi clean guitar a lot

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Some of the mixing decisions are horrible, but I also like some of them. My opinions are very mixed on the remix, they gave and they took.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My honest take is that I like the original better

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'll probably still listen to the original most of the time too, I like dynamics and the effects of the loudness war are felt with this mix. Do like certain things about the remix though, like the audible backing vocals on hyper music.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Absolution is great, idk exactly where the two rank for me but they are a very close top 2.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

the original mix of megalomania is one of those songs that just sends me elsewhere for its duration and it's so good.