Review / 200 Words Or Less
Entertainment
Gender

aDistant/Stickfigure (2008) — Sean K.

Entertainment – Gender cover artwork
Entertainment – Gender — aDistant/Stickfigure, 2008

Dark, moody, atmospheric rock from this Athens, GA four piece. Sounds like outtakes from The Cure's Pornography but if Simon Gallup was on ludes instead of acid. "Patroness" tries hard to capture the spirit of Joy Division, but somehow ends up reminding me of a Gary Numan tune. There's enough musical ability to rise above the fray, but next time the style needs to rise above 80's mope rock.

6.5 / 10 — Sean K. • December 21, 2008

Entertainment – Gender cover artwork
Entertainment – Gender — aDistant/Stickfigure, 2008

Related news

Gang of Four: Entertainment, anniversary, the end

Posted in Splits on October 7, 2024

Puscifer's Sessanta V2.0

Posted in Tours on September 23, 2024

Maynard James Keenan and the Sessanta EP

Posted in Tours on March 25, 2024

Recently-posted album reviews

Sexfaces

Bad Vibes OST
Slovenly (2025)

Best thing about writing reviews is finding out about new stuff that I otherwise might not have heard. Also writing reviews for bands that aren’t friends of mine is pretty cool but when I hear a band I really like, like Sex Faces, it makes me want to be friends with them, I can't help it! I’m not even halfway … Read more

Unseemlier

I Have A Screw Loose, Somewhere
Sell The Heart Records (2025)

What does Unseemlier sound like? I've been mulling that question as I listen to I Have A Screw Loose, Somewhere for a while now. As I listen to more and more Sell The Heart releases, The band is from Boston, but seemingly influenced by late '80s DC. It's heavy, but more with hardcore-like vocals shouted over moving, building guitars and … Read more

Personality Cult

Dilated
Dirtnap (2025)

I had a hard time starting this review. I can’t help coming back to the fact that it sounds like Marked Men. It does, maybe intentionally so, as Dilated is the second of Personality Cult’s albums that is produced by Jeff Burke of Marked Men and Radioactivity. But I don’t necessarily like to say a band sounds like another band … Read more