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Space Jester
July 2nd 2018


11280 Comments


Was your day beautifully ruined?

Gyromania
July 2nd 2018


37468 Comments


Meh

XingKing
July 2nd 2018


16199 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

or was it.... melancholy?



ba dum tshhh

Space Jester
July 3rd 2018


11280 Comments


1. A Single Tear
2. Eye of the Quarrel
3. Under Duress
4. Melancholia
5. Arkhipov Calm
6. I Can Tell You About Pain
7. Eve
8. Wildlife
9. Murk and Marrow
10. Churches and Jails
11. Permanent Blue
12. Trigger
13. Broken by Light
14. Cannibals
15. Beautiful Ruin
16. Reptilian

Arranging these in a way that sounds natural is pretty hard but this is the best I could do. I think it works pretty well

DDDeftoneDDD
July 3rd 2018


22796 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

whyyyy!? lol ok tks

Demon of the Fall
July 3rd 2018


35524 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I prefer this to Dusk, but these tracks don't feel particularly creative when pitted against their older material.

XingKing
July 3rd 2018


16199 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Keeping Trigger and Reptilian on the tracklisting and not making Eve the closer lol

SpiritCrusher2
July 3rd 2018


6439 Comments


"they should do an LP worth of material filled with quick bangers like these"

so basically axe to fall until last two tracks


XingKing
July 3rd 2018


16199 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Wretched World is one of their all time best tracks too

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
July 3rd 2018


10447 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

"I prefer this to Dusk, but these tracks don't feel particularly creative when pitted against their older material."



Hmm, I agree to an extent. Funny thing is that I think these tracks work terrifically in the context of The Dusk In Us style Converge, cause they're nice and heavy but still controlled and textured to fit in with that more tentative body of work. Problem being of course that it's hard to fit these tracks in with the full album, and if you're not a fan of the album then the tracks having a certain cohesion with it at the cost of some energy or creativity isn't gonna mean much. If any of that makes any sense haha

JeetJeet
July 3rd 2018


12430 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Eve, A Single Tear, and Wildlife should've been the first 3 tracks on Dusk. Imagine opening your album with something as epic as Eve and then going straight into Single Tear. I would've nutted.

Space Jester
July 3rd 2018


11280 Comments


Sorry XingKing I’ll make sure to have your tastes in mind next time I’m making a fake album playlist 😘

Gyromania
July 3rd 2018


37468 Comments


Dusk is way better than this. This is too short and too unmemorable. Unlike their earlier short tracks (or even latter career short tracks like "Axe to Fall") none of this seems all that special to me.


DominionMM1
July 3rd 2018


21282 Comments


"Keeping Trigger and Reptilian on the tracklisting"

not all that strange. i too would keep the albums better tracks on there but that's just me.

SpiritCrusher2
July 3rd 2018


6439 Comments


"none of this seems all that special to me"

same. the opener is eh, the other three tracks are fun, but they wrote much better similar stuff in the past, this seems kinda uninspired. I'm still glad they put this out because that artwork is the bomb.

Mort.
July 3rd 2018


26085 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

this sounds really boring



i use my hair to express myself





Gyromania
July 3rd 2018


37468 Comments


yeah i'm prob gonna delete this. album art is the best takeaway from the experience

Space Jester
July 3rd 2018


11280 Comments


The tracks are pretty one-dimensional and nothing they haven’t done before. They’d be better worked into a full album but they’ve definitely done better tracks in this vein.

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
July 3rd 2018


10447 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Agreed tbh. I still dig though, I'm a simple man to please

Space Jester
July 3rd 2018


11280 Comments


Same, especially when it comes to Converge lol.

Gotta say though, Dusk In Us was a slight letdown even though I wouldn’t say it’s the worst Converge. Think they can do better with the next one



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