REVIEWED: Cold Gobra by Limp Bizkit
Well, sometimes you have to put up with pointless garbage as well. Like - yeah, the album title is misspelled, my bad - this new album by Limp Bizkit. Few facts first:
1) Used to like LB circa Three Dollar Bill and Significant Other
2) Used to think LB makes (sorta) stylish music for the current crop of misunderstood raging youth with over-charged testosterone; i.e. pretty much relevant with the time
But that was then. When Chocolate Starfish happened, everything went batshit for them. It's too loud, too brash, too expletive, too showy, too idiotic. And a large portion of the blame pie falls squarely on Fred Durst. The F-word fest of "Hot Dog" for one is a good example of what exactly went wrong - either they lose focus on what made them appealing to listeners in the first place, or Fred Durst totally misunderstood the concept of mainstream acceptance with the freedom to do whatever the hell that he wishes, which is most probably it.
It has been argued many times before (by lots of people) that part of the problem with LB is Fred Durst - who is also at the same time the reason why anyone paid attention to the band in the first place. It's a double-edged sword that the band carries in their trophy cabinet. Wes Borland might be the creative driving force of the band as his fret work weaves the loose material of the rest of the band, and FD's loose brain, together into one coherent song piece. But it's also apparent that when left on his own (Bigdumbface come to mind), he is anonymous and muted. So after an unfruitful solo effort, and LB's apparent reliance and need of Borland, they patched things up and two albums was the result - and Cold Gobra is one of it.
If you're the kind of person who likes LB for the music, and the music alone (which would most probably be very rare), then Cold Gobra will please you. Well, that is if you liked them hard, unrelenting, and punishing, just like the olden days. But if you're looking for FD letting loose with his anger and capturing back the style and the flow of his earlier works then you will be thoroughly disappointed. He is just as bitter, maybe a lot bitterer now. He is just as angrier, way lot angrier now. And he is just as idiotic, way way lot idiotic-er. In the end, because FD is still the front and center of the band, none of the 13 tracks works. No matter how hard they try to recapture their former glorious days. And they did tried very, very hard.
Very hard indeed.
Well, sometimes you have to put up with pointless garbage as well. Like - yeah, the album title is misspelled, my bad - this new album by Limp Bizkit. Few facts first:
1) Used to like LB circa Three Dollar Bill and Significant Other
2) Used to think LB makes (sorta) stylish music for the current crop of misunderstood raging youth with over-charged testosterone; i.e. pretty much relevant with the time
But that was then. When Chocolate Starfish happened, everything went batshit for them. It's too loud, too brash, too expletive, too showy, too idiotic. And a large portion of the blame pie falls squarely on Fred Durst. The F-word fest of "Hot Dog" for one is a good example of what exactly went wrong - either they lose focus on what made them appealing to listeners in the first place, or Fred Durst totally misunderstood the concept of mainstream acceptance with the freedom to do whatever the hell that he wishes, which is most probably it.
It has been argued many times before (by lots of people) that part of the problem with LB is Fred Durst - who is also at the same time the reason why anyone paid attention to the band in the first place. It's a double-edged sword that the band carries in their trophy cabinet. Wes Borland might be the creative driving force of the band as his fret work weaves the loose material of the rest of the band, and FD's loose brain, together into one coherent song piece. But it's also apparent that when left on his own (Bigdumbface come to mind), he is anonymous and muted. So after an unfruitful solo effort, and LB's apparent reliance and need of Borland, they patched things up and two albums was the result - and Cold Gobra is one of it.
If you're the kind of person who likes LB for the music, and the music alone (which would most probably be very rare), then Cold Gobra will please you. Well, that is if you liked them hard, unrelenting, and punishing, just like the olden days. But if you're looking for FD letting loose with his anger and capturing back the style and the flow of his earlier works then you will be thoroughly disappointed. He is just as bitter, maybe a lot bitterer now. He is just as angrier, way lot angrier now. And he is just as idiotic, way way lot idiotic-er. In the end, because FD is still the front and center of the band, none of the 13 tracks works. No matter how hard they try to recapture their former glorious days. And they did tried very, very hard.
Very hard indeed.
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