Back in the day I was writing in a zine called the Crass Menagerie and I was assigned to review My Fruit... The review has since been lost in the many reformatting and non-backed up failures of hard drives of my PC at home. But I found it online, and apparently you guys gave me a headfuck of massive proportions 
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"Can you believe that I have no idea what to make of this album? I have been reviewing for a few years now and I have to admit that I have not been so unable to say what an album is really about. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL have been able to totally confuse me like I have not been in many years, I am usually a very grounded, logical person. MATW are weird as you can be while being very limited in their exploration. Let me clarify that, they are using very different song structure and unusual instruments but they stay within a doom-goth-death frame, unlike another weird band like Mr Bungle who one minute will play ska then the next metal then whatever they feel like. Maudlin of the Well are different in a very Neurosis way but in a totally different context, instead of hardcore they are doom. They use clean, male and female, as well as death vocals very efficiently. I have a very hard time knowing if I like it or not. The novelty aspect is very interesting but I am not sure that the music really appeals to me, even after many listens. There are some very nice melodies and decent heavy riffs but I am not sure it all fits."
http://kzsu.stanford.edu/~hannah/m/maudlinofthewell.html
:"Can you believe that I have no idea what to make of this album? I have been reviewing for a few years now and I have to admit that I have not been so unable to say what an album is really about. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL have been able to totally confuse me like I have not been in many years, I am usually a very grounded, logical person. MATW are weird as you can be while being very limited in their exploration. Let me clarify that, they are using very different song structure and unusual instruments but they stay within a doom-goth-death frame, unlike another weird band like Mr Bungle who one minute will play ska then the next metal then whatever they feel like. Maudlin of the Well are different in a very Neurosis way but in a totally different context, instead of hardcore they are doom. They use clean, male and female, as well as death vocals very efficiently. I have a very hard time knowing if I like it or not. The novelty aspect is very interesting but I am not sure that the music really appeals to me, even after many listens. There are some very nice melodies and decent heavy riffs but I am not sure it all fits."
http://kzsu.stanford.edu/~hannah/m/maudlinofthewell.html
