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JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
March 28th 2023


60726 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

II is easily the best CC, even if the other three have equally great moments. Could see this being your fav if you bat for paranoid witch house, but II is just straight hits across the whole board

anode
March 29th 2023


2169 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

ill listen to II again but didnt strike me as revolutionary and more accessible. not sure what you mean by paranoid witch house. that a reference or something? all i will say is discovering wrath of god has nearly made finding out i have 3 herniated discs in my neck on monday bearable

Ryus
March 29th 2023


37141 Comments


witch house rules i love it as an early 2010s time capsule

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
March 29th 2023


60726 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

oh damn, rough to hear you've got neck problems :/

fwiw i definitely got the most out of this one when I was curled up in a 3 weekish depression bubble with almost nothing else except Cocteau Twins and the bleakest National albums on rotation, so maybe it is the best convalescent castles alb?

Shemson
March 29th 2023


4156 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I think this one is more solid than II but II has bigger peaks like Empathy which is their best stand alone banger imo

PunkerBlast
March 29th 2023


432 Comments


"Don't worry, dear Pamela
I'll do my scientific best to command your fleet
Don't worry, dear Pamela
I'll do my scientific best to command your fleet"

I just know the first and a little of the second.

anode
March 29th 2023


2169 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks Johnny. Listening to II again and very consistent, accessible and well written. III is just so evocative and grandiose and dark which is more my style

anode
March 31st 2023


2169 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This some of the most disturbing music I’ve heard. The drug fueled beats with the oppressively dark lyrics genuinely has me a little freaked out

PunkerBlast
March 31st 2023


432 Comments


I don't know a lot about the people involvied in this, but I had heard some bad things and how the original female singer was injured but still performed a show under the influence maybe forced.

Life can be difficult.

anode
March 31st 2023


2169 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah the fact that there was such a tumultuous relationship between Ethan and alice behind this music definitely adds to the darkness of it. And then the album cover….

samwise2000
April 24th 2024


1868 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

classic, aged super well. first 3 are all classics

anode
June 1st 2024


2169 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This review saying there’s too much reverb like it was a mistake. The over saturation was a choice to be experimental and enveloping and it works perfectly. Makes me think of when Gregg turkington said it was a mistake to animate escape from planet earth because people like to see Brendan frasers face



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