Crossover - Pythagorized
Crossover is a strange band. They’ve been around forever (founded in 1997) and this is their latest full-length album, their third overall. The first half of this LP is absolutely unlistenable. It’s a giant ball of ideas that doesn’t mesh well. The song structures are all fucked up and it sounds like they threw everything up against the proverbial wall to see what would stick and then used everything. Once you get to the sixth track, though, things improve. The songs still have some problems, but nothing like the first five. “Proplasma of Bow” sounds like they wanted to be Cradle of Filth. “To Amasi of Egypt,” the seventh track, has an odd electronic intro bit that sounds horrible but otherwise continues the vibe of the previous song. The best track on this whole album had to be “Father North” [a translation of the actual Greek title -Editor], which was so much better than the rest of the songs that I would have scrapped the remainder of this and just released that one as a single. That song by itself is a ten. Everything else is crap, with the first half of this album being so bad that I rate it in negative numbers. This release has the worst case of schizophrenia that I’ve ever seen. It’s like they literally didn’t know what to be. “Father North” is a great song, but it isn’t worth buying this album just to get it. This is the reason so many people used Napster back in the day. They wanted one song and didn’t want to have to pay $20 for it. If you can download just this one song from iTunes, I’d say go for it and flush the rest of this album down the toilet with the rest of the shit.
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