Deadmau5 Album Reviews

[Susie]

I did this because Deadmau5 is my all time favorite musician and I wanted to express my feelings about his work as I myself a Mau5 fan.

[spoiler=Project 56]
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Project 56 was the start of Joel's life as Deadmau5 after being formerly known as Halcyon441. This album was meant to be 56 short little songs that are around 1min-3min long. Joel definitely did do quite a lot of different sounds during this album making it worth listening to. But it sounds way off from his usual Progressive House/Electro House stuff he produces today. Many people do not know of this album from Deadmau5. For me it is one of my most favorite albums he has ever done. If you are a big fan of Aphex Twin then this is the album you'd like. you can easily hear the Aphex Twin inspirations in the song "Almond Question", and he even referenced Boards of Canada in one of his songs, which were one of his biggest inspirations in music. Though the feel of the album can get lost from the song known as "A song about squirrels" which plays a sample that goes "I f**ked a squirrel in the @$$"
[b]Recommended Tracks: Almond Question, 80 Something, Bored of Canada, and 15 Minutes.[/b] [/spoiler]

[spoiler=Random Album Title]
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Random Album Title was the album that was the start to Joel's house music era. This is the most well respected album that he has released. Most of the hardcore mau5 fans would say that this is his best album. This album was the one that got him more popular and got him more mainstream, but it didn't get him too highly known. This album contains the famous song "I Remember" which he did with producer Kaskade, and vocalist Haley Gibbs. Haley's vocals are for sure beautiul and very calming, but I don't think that this song is really the one that sold the album for me. If you ask me I prefer the remix he did of Morgan Page's The longest road, but that's a whole different story.
Out of all the album's Deadmau5 has released this one has the most emotion in the songs. Though you wouldn't recognize the emotion unless you were a huge electronic music fan. But when you think of it, there's no surprise to this seeming towards how you can't be easily bored by any of the songs and there aren't any sort of electro-bass wobble type songs that get old and boring after a week of listening to it. All in all this album deserves all of the respect that it has.
[b]Recommended Tracks: Alone With You, Brazil, Arguru, and Not Exactly.[/b]
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[spoiler=For Lack of a Better Name]
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For Lack of a Better Name was Joel's comeback album that led him to his fame and success. Most mainly becuse of the song he did with Pendulum's Rob Swire known as "Ghosts'n'Stuff" I would trash this song because it doesn't demonstrate what Joel can do as a producer very well, but admit it over half of you mau5 fans out there had gotten hooked because of that song. This album had lost some of the emotion that Joel gave in his other album, but still though he makes up for it with the song "Strobe". The album has more electro/techno inspirations added onto it which take away from that feeling you get from Random Album Title, though if you listen carefully enough you can get some sounds out of it that can be a bit relaxing. I'm not meaning to sound hateful towards this album, I think that it's really great, but I just wish that Joel didn't leave behind that feel I got when I first heard "Random Album Title".
[b]Recommended Tracks: Strobe, For Lack of a Better Name, and The 16th Hour.[/b]
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[spoiler=4x4=12]
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This is my least favorite album by Joel. I feel as if he did sell out a bit on this one. The whole album is just bass-type music (within the exception of "Everything Before"). Added onto it are the two songs he did with Sofi, her vocals are incredibly annoying and take a very long time to get used to. As well as "Raise your Weapon" which starts out as a nice beautiful track and then turns into dubstep/electro. Even Deadmau5 himself admited that he just made Dubstep because it was cool at the moment. I have no problem with Bass-type dubstep/electro music, but it gets so old and boring very quickly. Most of the hardcore Mau5 fans think that this album was terrible but I personally think that Joel deserves credit on this one for stepping outside of his usual, and I did find this album enjoyble for a little while.
[b]Recommended Tracks: Cthuhlu Sleeps, Some Chords, Right This Second, and Everything Before.[/b]
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[spoiler=>album title goes here<]
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This is Joel's newest album and his most surprising, if you do not follow him around on his unreleased works. The album cover is quite different though I am quite shocked that he put his cat Meowingtons on the front cover, but it still is quite predictable, if you've seen his youtube videos which have Meowingtons appearing quite often, and he even named his tour "Meowingtons Hax Enabled" or something like that.
I felt that this album is a little bit boring, at start but once you listen to it a couple of times it kinda gets onto you. "The Veldt" was once good, but it got dead and boring quite quickly. "Professional Greifers" I couldn't care less for. Though I think the major dissapointment with this album was "Take Care of the Proper Paperwork", I was really hoping that he'd release the original version of this song (Known as "Don't Forget About the Paperwork"), but I still do like this version a lot as well. I feel as if this album is a big improvement from 4x4=12, but not the easiest to listen to, if you're too used to his EDM stuff.
Alot of his fans aren't taking Joel too serious on this album because he's decided to step out of EDM stuff. I personally think that it's a great thing that he's been able to show how versatile he is by doing EDM related stuff, as well as completely different stuff. Though there are the few songs that really ruin the emotion and ambience of the non-EDM stuff, and it's a shame on how the track placement was put. I'd really appreciate it if Joel decided to do a whole album of non-EDM songs instead of killing the feel of them.
[b]Recommended Tracks: Take Care of the Proper Paperwork, Closer, and Telecommunications.[/b]
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