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>>>Is it any good? Well, spatial noises as far as art is concerned is a matter of mood - at the moment it's okay, but if I were in a shitty mood, I'd say this were just aural jerking off, and advise the guy to sell hot dogs or cut lawns for a living.<<< I HATE reviews like this - review-guy, we don't give two shits about your mood, OK? I don't know you, don't have any reference point for evaluating how your moods correlate with what is and isn't artistic. Your job is to help describe the music. If there are any obvious errors, then feel free to highlight them, if there is an overall lack of coherence, describe it. But don't bitch about someone else's hard work because it might not match your mood sometimes!!!!!!We don't need your advice over career choices or anything else. Do your job!!! I really need to put up a dos and don'ts of reviewing on my site - there are so many lame writers out there dismissing what we do because they think they are charles shaar murray... It's infuriating - reviews can be so enlightening. Even bad reviews can be helpful if they are objective and constructive. But stuff like this is nonsense. Thanks for posting it, Scott, I'll remember never to send that guy a CD of mine... Knowing how connected people can be with their music, it's almost scary that there are writers like this out there coming out with stuff like that. I've got students who'd be destroyed if someone wrote like that about them... I had a really thowaway mention in a Schizoid review recently from some guy who said that I just did frippertronics with a bass, and hey, it's a way to make a living, I guess - it's just lazy writing. If it had been an actual review of my gig, I might have written to him, but as a two line mention in someone else's review, I'm not really in a position to complain... It makes me all the more appreciative for the clarity and wisdom of so many of the reviews that originate on this list itself. grrrrr Steve www.steve-lawson.co.uk