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Canvas

xTryggvix | Iceland | 02/03/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is what I would call brilliant. This is one of the coolest CD's I have ever heard really. This is what got me started in hardcore, and it really didn't just get me started it pushed me so deep I am affraid (glad) that I wont ever get out. This has been one of my favorite CD's for the last (at least) one and a half years and I know it isn't about to move. Canvas has many fans here in Iceland who I know love this CD too. Buy this CD! I strongly recommend it.
Thanks Canvas for griping me and for taking me into the world of core... Your memory will live on!
xTryggvix"

Very VERY underappreciated

professorwyrd | Irmo, SC | 05/24/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As I have stated before, hardcore is very unforgiving to the creative artist. I purchased this cd in factory sealed brand new condition for only a penny, A PENNY!!!!! The same applies to their previous, more metal album. It is just sad to see that a budding genius like this is blatantly opposed and snuffed out before it even blooms fully. Canvas was almost there. Although the beginning of the album has a lot of basic hardcore played at midpace, you will be very suprised after reaching the middle of the album. They begin to pull in lots of samples, play in a more doomlike fashion and add in instruments like violins, accoustic guitars, turntables, and a child's playset! This isn't like the splatter experimental of the Daughters, but it makes up for it in its depth and composition. I can see why most hardcore fans can't stand this. 'Artcore' bands have to deal with a lot. Candiria has to pull in fans from other styles and creates a volatile crowd of art intelectuals mixed with drunken, vicious scensters. Spread the Disease was in such a conforming environment that they dissolved after only a sample little of electronic static. Daughters have to make themselves so intense that they can still keep in the fans. CANVAS!.... Slow metal sung with half-hearted Offspring vocals and breaking off into accoustic ballads, techno-static instrumentals, and SOFT PARTS - few are the fans of this band.One can only imagine what they could have created if they stayed together and put out just one more album.
The world loses some of its meaning when we lose artists like this. We need to learn to be supportive of those who dare to travel off the path into the threatening wildereness of artistic abandon."