Momentum investors, or those who trade on technical signals, are quick to point out that "the trend is your friend," and that you should chase strong stocks higher until some sort of technical breakdown sounds an alarm and lights up emergency-exit signs.
Popjustice wrote that the breakdown sounded like tribal-techno, and the whole song was "a turbo-charged electrogothic wrongness anthem".
As previously said, this tuning is for much darker music, and makes breakdowns sound amazing.
The Labour Party is having a collective nervous breakdown that sounds and feels like the collapse of the Conservative Party in the John Major years.
The breakdown even sounds a little grungey in the Parisian's hands, made just a little more powerful by this sparser arrangement.
Dan Staige, of Metal Review, said that the instruments were "remarkably balanced and crisp", and his only criticism was that the "ultra heavy breakdowns" "may sound a little monotonous", but that "you will still bang your head".
The song pretty much stays the course (growled verse, barked chorus, repeat) for a bit, but just when you start thinking that perhaps it isn't going to live up to the promise of that initial Rick ta Life-esque growl, P.O.D. trot out a breakdown that sounds straight off the Harder They Come comp.
"Ashtray Heart" began with a chug that could have appeared on a Bo Diddley record, and then proceeded through a series of sections taped together unpredictably: one centers around a loud Mellotron keyboard; another sounds like an improvised breakdown; and another sounds like a funeral march lumbering along beneath Van Vliet's granular rasping.
"Whether it was 'nervous exhaustion' or 'nervous breakdown,' anything that sounded psychiatric was stigmatized at that time.
I think it was Julian Cope who suggested that hardcore punk was simply the result of American teenagers trying and failing to master playing Communication Breakdown, and that sounds wholly plausible.
