The face of nightmares, man…

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Iain Mew: “Something violent coming.” Let me know when it arrives, it might liven things up a bit. As it is, this is even more boring than the 80s synth-pop covers were.
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Edward Okulicz: Prime Manson was a beacon of amusing schtick and occasionally wicked basslines to a bunch of teens, and a source of mild tsk-tsking from their parents. Now his fans are the parents, and their kids would laugh at the prospect of this as being threatening or even a good tune. Such is the passing of time, the changing of the zeitgeist and the increasing difficulty of writing a hook and spooking people. The rhythm of “No Reflection” is, fittingly, so stilted you’d assume Brian Warner is so aged he needs a walking frame to get around these days.
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Brad Shoup: The torporific arrangement and editor-free lyric stream reveal the title to be a double entendre. This guy used to have an actual rhythm section; what happened?
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Jonathan Bogart: Once upon a time a schaffel beat meant something. This was before Katy Perry killed it forever.
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Andrew Ryce: I guess that last album was kind of tolerable, in a lecherous, “watch me molest my girlfriend as I croak all over her” kind of way. It wasn’t unlistenable. Neither is this one, but the distorted radio-rock guitars aren’t doing it any favours, and neither are the raspy wordless nothings that seem to smother the edges of this tune with a topcoat of “creepy.” It’s not exactly terrible, but there’s barely even a melody here aside from a hint of descending scales — at least if it were a mess it would be interesting to listen to.
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Alfred Soto: I’m sure Rob Zombie writes better songs now.
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Pete Baran: Oh Marilyn. Vampires were like, so two years ago. And to think you were actually good at dystopian rock!
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Michaela Drapes: In case you’ve become tired of the endless recent tweeifictation of all things vampire (or “dark”), Marilyn Manson would like to remind you that the shadowy, twisted, unlovable part of his soul has no reflection.
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