From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9313 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, July 14 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9313 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Designers!Over 7000 Landscaping Designs, Instructions & Videos ["Ideas4La] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:34:04 -0400 From: "Ideas4Landscaping" Subject: Designers!Over 7000 Landscaping Designs, Instructions & Videos Designers!Over 7000 Landscaping Designs, Instructions & Videos http://landsccapingideasa.za.com/3Zfdz-8BbbW3QJJZDH_OCLIQG53T7wviVOztxHOwp02PJJvcQQ http://landsccapingideasa.za.com/qCCgOS7Ryb8i2_vg-ddTtpgvfKiMVWn12bCqiAcLhmCkAf82uQ reviewers also commented on the accompanying alternate reality game. Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times, praised the album and game concept as "a total marriage of the pop and gamer aesthetics that unlocks the rusty cages of the music industry and solves some key problems facing rock music as its cultural dominance dissolves into dust." In relation to the declining music industry, Joseph Jaffe of Brandweek commented that such "mysterious marketing measures are what's desperately needed to gain attention in this uncertain era of distribution dilemmas and sagging sales", also commending acts such as Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead for being "more innovative than marketers". Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B+, comparing it to The X-Files and calling it "A sci-fi concept album whose end-of-days, paranoia-drenched storyline has been disseminated via the Internet". It also stated: "Amid its carefully calibrated sonic assaults, Year Zero has a number of tracks that will stop you in yours. Sometimes, it's a matter of dropping the volume Even his use of electronics has shifted to a new level Is the truth in here? Dunno, but Reznor's claim that 'I got my violence in high def ultra-realism' sounds like gospel to us." On the fictional world depicted in the album and promotional campaign, the Cleveland Free Times commented that the album's fictionalized world and characters "often seemed heavy-handed and forced", but also conceded that "its clotted claustrophobia suited its subject matter". Ann Powers added, "The songs on 'Year Zero,' each from the perspective of a character or characters already existent in the ARG, draw a connection between the music ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9313 **********************************************