- Record Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
- Release Date: May 5, 2009
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Each offering here is meter-perfect and crafted instinctively to flat-out destroy the boundaries of rock music.
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Cryptomnesia is a tough, rugged, and wildly ambitious set of far-reaching--sometimes overly so--compositions reflecting the rapid growth of one of the new century's most genuinely talented and visionary musicians.
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The album makes a thorough, nerve-tingling plunge into the Mars Volta’s maelstrom available to shorter attention spans.
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Awe is in the ear of the beholder, sure, but after being predictably pounded into the ground for half an hour by Rodriguez-Lopez/Hill et al. and their bag of heavy tricks, it's hard to tell if we're meant to walk away impressed or oppressed.
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The album is pure homogeneous shitheap of stream-of-consciousness turgidity nonsense that strives to be different and to take you “somewhere else” but in the end really just ends up being hilariously bad and hilariously derivative of his past work and despite the frequent “so-weird-it’s-almost-cool” moments it still just plain sucks hardcore.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 15
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Mixed: 2 out of 15
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Negative: 5 out of 15
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Aug 20, 2022
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SimonBMay 23, 2009