Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz
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MarsKid
Emeritus
April 7th 2020


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Well hey, 'good' is still a 3.0, which is a positive score!

Clumseee
April 8th 2020


1815 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This is still pretty great but I'm pretty obsessed with the new one.

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
April 8th 2020


26215 Comments


schmalds

Kompys2000
Emeritus
April 8th 2020


9467 Comments

Album Rating: 3.4

I can't handle much more than a single Schmalt at a time, so this album's a bit much for me

LunaticSoul
April 12th 2020


2403 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

this hits hard, but brave faces everyone hits hardest

SmashIsTheWay94
April 17th 2020


2251 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

damn after my first listen this is sounding way better than the new one

pollastrerostit
April 17th 2020


854 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

still does after more listens

onionbubs
April 17th 2020


21092 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah this is considerably better

MarsKid
Emeritus
April 18th 2020


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I'll [2] to that

onionbubs
April 18th 2020


21092 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

insane how well its doing for them tho reeeeally makes me wish i dug it more (also bc kick was a tremendous single and like nothing else on the album lived up to it)

madrigal30
April 18th 2020


1583 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

this is amazing. the new is a little less good.



MarsKid
Emeritus
April 18th 2020


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I think it got too overly-sincere, leading to some awkward lyricism and the choruses didn't have a bunch because of it. It's also a bit more subdued/not quite as fast-paced as this can be.

onionbubs
April 18th 2020


21092 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

think what's so frustrating about it to me (and is probably only frustrating if you care about like theory and shit so this criticism is probably not something a lot of ppl care about lol) is how hard it is for the songs to differentiate themselves when they're allll in the same key (7 of the 10 songs here are in d flat maj and the ones that aren't which are all in e flat were ALL OF THE FUCKING SINGLES) and are all going for the same kind of big chorus so there's not an ounce of diversity on the album which makes it so boring to me at points

madrigal30
April 18th 2020


1583 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i agree BUT the DbMaj into that bigass chorus alllllllllways works for them

onionbubs
April 18th 2020


21092 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

it definitely has moments where it does. generation loss is my favorite of those songs that they've ever done and it's chorus fucking HITS when it comes in, but it coming right after self destruction makes self destruction feel really redundant bc its chorus isnt even close to being as good. or how the reprise of all the vocal melodies on the t/t instead of being a big emotional payoff just kinda proves the point to me that the vocal melodies are super interchangeable

Ebola
April 18th 2020


4522 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

this one is definitely more varied and dynamic than brave faces, but both are stellar

MarsKid
Emeritus
April 18th 2020


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, I definitely got the formulaic feel off of that album. Sound and structure-wise, it seemed to play things too by-the-numbers.

Kompys2000
Emeritus
April 18th 2020


9467 Comments

Album Rating: 3.4

I don't disagree with any of you but BFE is still the better album for me lol

MarsKid
Emeritus
April 18th 2020


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Well it's emo haha, some stuff resonates a certain way, others not so much.

LunaticSoul
April 18th 2020


2403 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'l tell you why I prefer Brave Faces Everyone over Schmaltz.



Schmaltz's themes delve more on suicide / death, which thank fuck are experiences that only resonate with me from a distance.



The lyrics of Brave Faces are more of a commentary of the broken social elevator, and coming to terms with how all that makes you feel about life. It's more about disenchantment with the status of the world and the internal turmoil it makes you feel rather than just having "the blues"



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