Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

they've got that difficult formula of crushing beauty down to a science.. album of the year [2]..

Album Rating: 4.0

Band has awesome artwork.

They seem real deal as well thank the Lord!!! I knew it, you just can’t fake this stuff.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

AdolfChrist - yea, the off-kilter portrait theme they've got going is stellar as well..



zaka, that's that Detroit working class anxiety right there.. no art school shittery..

Album Rating: 4.0

WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WHAT YOU'RE GIVEN

Not a brat to be found. They’re in London next month. I’m probabaly going to go. Exciting!

Album Rating: 3.0

Didn't do much for me on first listen. Hope it grows.

lol. Bless ya Boney.

Album Rating: 3.0

I don't have much knowledge of their influencers or the style they're working in so inevitably some of the nuances will probably be lost on me.

It’s born of having to get this stuff out not adhering to ‘influences’ ‘conceit’ or sycophantic claptrap.

Saying that this is the sort of thing the NME shites themselves over.

Album Rating: 3.0

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to get at but if you're saying what I think you're saying, I don't mean to say that they're derivative but just that they're operating in a well-worn style and that because of that, some of what is making this good or interesting for some people likely comes from the way that the band is approaching that style but that that's an element I inherently can't appreciate fully.

A band either is or it isn’t.

A collective who have the same passions, ideals, musical interests and who form and create naturally, impulsively and on instinct.

A band doesn’t ‘adapt’ or compromise, or restrict itself. It’s not amenable to the surrounding dross.
If a band were to say ‘let’s sound a bit more like so and so’ it’s not a band it’s a sham.

Robbie Robertson of The Band once said this clever thing "There are two types of bands. First, the 'hey, I got a guitar for christmas, guess I'll start a band' type; and second, a collective of actual musicians coming together to create music."

can you cite? seems kinda dumbly reductive but i'll give the benefit of the doubt in the event that i'm sorely lacking context..

I'm paraphrasing, of course. I'll dig around and give you the link.

oh there we go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnd0oNQ-W-A

yeah, the context there is a tad different, but I think his words apply

ah nice, quick on the draw

It's actually a nice interview in and of itself...

Album Rating: 4.0

jamming Under Color. immediately liking it better than No Passion, which was also good.

Album Rating: 4.0

Second listen and we're up to a 4. Drumming thumps.