Album Rating: 3.0

Sorry, dude this would be an easy 4 with some editing, but as it is, it's testing my patience. I'll give it a further chance during the weekend, I guess if we get some grey and rainy days here, my mood will fit this album more.

Album Rating: 4.5

"Behind My Eyes" could go on forever for all I care

easily the best song. i prob would 2.5 this bc i genuinely find it boring after multiple listens (and i also love stuff many find to be boring) but i’m not gonna do it bc i don’t want it to be true

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I don’t understand why everyone rates the second song as that much better than the rest.

for me i think the dynamic was set by how much i didn’t like the first song. it’s also well within the parameters of golden era stripped down slowcore and resonated with me in a way that rhp1 did the first time i heard it. but ultimately i do blame my love for it on my disdain for the first song as i am one greatly affected by first impressions

Album Rating: 4.5

It's not; I was just having a moment with it ;-P

"Until" and "Raise Me Up" are perhaps my favorites.

and also it never really goes much further beyond “songs that sound like the first song” and “songs that sound like the second song kind of” and on an album with mostly 8 minute songs it just gets old

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Ranked/Rated:



1. Reveal [5] the last two minutes are the biggest emotional hit here

2. Spaces in Between [5] a less angsty Drop by RHP and almost as good

3. Behind My Eyes [5] yes, it’s good

4. Thousand Miles [5] this one is more SKM ‘Tonight in Bilbao’, great late night atmos

5. Colours [5] would like another shorty like this here, golden instrumental coda

6. Until [4.5] nearly perfect, just not quite

7. Closure [4] does the job, it all comes full circle

8. Raise Me Up [4, maybe 3.5] intrigues me and sounds like a dark RHP tune (Mother etc) but on an album of smooth transitions this sometimes sounds a bit ‘off’. Overall like it though

Album Rating: 4.5

I think my ranking would be something like this:



Behind My Eyes

The Spaces In Between

A Thousand Miles

Closure

Until

Reveal

Raise Me Up

Colours

Album Rating: 4.0

'Behind My Eyes' might become my new favourite song of all time. I don't think a song has ever clicked with me this much so instantly - it's so beautiful, I just can't stop listening. The song reminds me a lot of Sun Kil Moon's 'Tonight in Bilbao' and maybe the piano of 'Micheline', but it's dreamier and more peaceful. Could listen to it forever.



Edit: I now see Doof already compared another song to Tonight In Bilbao on this very page. Safe to say the album borrows a lot from RHP and SKM.

Album Rating: 3.5

Doof’s ranking looks extremely accurate to me - almost disconcertingly, bizarrely on point in fact. It’s on a level that’s questioning my own stance on everything music related and possibly the meaning of life too.



What does this mean? 🤔

Album Rating: 3.0

Seems like a lot of people are digging this

Album Rating: 4.5

@Doof, Raise Me Up is a bit weird but I like the variety it provides in the back half and the ending of that one really makes it for me, one of the most emotionally intense passages here.

I mean seriously:



Am I strong enough to carry this?

Or too weak to let it go?

Album Rating: 4.5

Ok as much as I kind of want to agree with Doof that "Behind My Eyes" isn't the best here by any significant margin, that one especially is hitting harder and harder with every listen. The lyrics are absolutely perfect.



"We are wakening our lives together;

We are unmaking everything we’re ashamed of"



fuck



"Take what’s left behind my eyes;

Whatever you can find, refine it

And make it in to something beautiful"



Fuck



"And lead a little with your light;

The level of my light is paler now

It is paling"



FUCK



"Raise your eyes;

Hold the reins with your hungering hands;

Heave your heart from the weight;

And let life break through to us;

Let life make new to us;

Let life taste true to us;

Because sometimes it’s so hard to find"



FUCK

Album Rating: 2.5

No swearing pls

Album Rating: 3.5

Something tells me Boney might going through some things. Stay strong buddy.

I think I could probably relate to a couple of the lines in this if I squint hard enough to be fair, which is admittedly quite the rarity. Powerful stuff, although it wouldn’t work without that voice/delivery mind.

Album Rating: 4.5

Nah Demon, I'm fine, I'm actually just an emotionless husk who lives the gamut of human emotion vicariously through music and literature and has a particular predilection towards the more negative emotions within those media.







On second thought, maybe I'm not fine...

Album Rating: 3.5

Hmm, that definitely sounds somewhat familiar. Haha.



…well I’m not emotionless per se, just weirdly unbalanced in that sense. I get effected by things I’m in no way attached to instead of those I perhaps should. I’ve always veered towards the darker side of lyricism/music in general, optimism in times of adversity is fine, unbridled joy is completely lost on me 😂

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Nice lyric choices Bone.



“Whenever you’re not in sight of me, whenever the arms of darkness breach, wherever you are the light will reach, wherever you are the light will reach {swell}….oh Ophelia, I’m strong enough to lift you up!” plus lovely fem backing vox



“You know my colours, you span the best of me, but you could never understand … a human …. heart” into epic touching acoustic guitar coda

Album Rating: 4.5

Good choices too Doof. That ending of “Reveal” still hasn’t quite clicked for me, but I still love the song in a 4/5 level kind of way.

But overall I am really loving this whole thing. Nothing hits me quite as hard as “Stages” but (as can already be told) I’m connecting with the lyrics a lot more than I did on Wider Than the Sky, and I think I’m developing a stronger emotional connection to this one because of that.