Just come across a review for Maribel - Reveries. Whilst the text shows room for creativity, this word cloud I've made shows that most of the key words are just band-related and aren't really about the music. An interesting turn this has shown is that if you cut out all of the background information, it doesn't leave the review with much to 'visualise.' It's more a biographical review and that takes away from the image potential and highlights how much some reviews rely on the text element of their message.
Without all of the key words related to the band (i.e. Maribel, Reveries, Record, Aesthetics (the name of their first release)) and all of the words needed structurally (i.e. 'although,' 'much' etc.) all there really is is 'dreamy, stensil, radiantly, haunting' and so forth, which are very vague terms and almost rely on the text for a context, as I also noticed 'danger' on there, and I believe the review references a lack thereof, rather than saying the record sounds 'dangerous.' With a review like this, I think it would be much more interesting to create some original artwork which depicts the tone and mood of the album rather than try to simply replicate certain quotes, which may have been the case with my M83 review.
I was considering using this review for my experiment, but I don't think it's written well enough from a creative perspective - but then again, my project is designed to highlight this, rather than rely on something that translates well. Whether it works as a medium of replacement is what I'm trying to discover; but on first glance, I would say this particular review won't have much resemblance to the original text.
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