Album Rating: 4.0

i'm gonna jam this before I check the new one, Plunge is one of my favourite summer jams

1. What They Call Us - 3.5/5. As Doc succinctly put it, a context-bound track. Great opener, but average Fever Ray / The Knife song. That’s ok because average for them is still great for anyone else and it sets a familiar tone.
2. Shiver - 4.5/5. Incredible. No notes.
3. New Utensils - 5/5. Wild even by The Knife standards. Just absolutely mind melting track. So good it hurts my feelings. Top 5 Fever Ray song material.
4. Kandy - 5/5. Perfect in a very different way than New Utensils. Familiar like the opener but instead of middling this is a Knife/Fever Ray GOATer. Pass This On 2023. Probably will be song of the year. This one also hurts my feelings.
5. Even It Out - 4/5. Weird song. If it’s weird for Fever Ray/The Knife then you know it’s really weird. Trent’s input is very apparent and it makes it sound like a NiN track featuring Karin. It’s been a while since we’ve heard guitar on a Fever/Knife track and the industrial and post punk influences kind of make it feel a bit at odds with the rest of the album. It keeps growing though regardless.
6. Looking For a Ghost - 2.5. This is Self Titled / Deep Cuts era The Knife quality. Problem is the bar is too high for this shit now. Song is derpy as fuck and I can’t make myself like it. If it was on either of those early albums I would probably see it differently, but here it is not the one.
7. Carbon Dioxide - 3.5/5. Radical Romantic’s To the Moon and Back. Except not as good. Still really good but as the singular song here that really stands out as a Plunge-era cut, it’s just not as exciting as stuff that sounds new, or sounds like a welcome throwback to The Knife.
8. North - 3/5. Also context-bound imo. It’s a nice atmospheric song that works in the albums favour. Trent’s input is extremely evident here as well but it’s less jarring. A good “intermission” or moment of release of tension.
9. Tapping Fingers - 4/5. I could see this one growing to a 4.5 pretty quick. It’s not as immediate as shiver or new utensils but it just gets better every time I hear it. Benefits from Norths “cooldown” making the climactic peak even more satisfactory. It’s the true “ending” of the album to me. I love it.
10. Bottom of the Ocean - 3.5/5. A quintessentially “The Knife” outro. It’s a good meditation on the rest of the album. It serves its purpose and doesn’t need to be anything more than it is. Context-bound once again. Bookend choices here were very thought out and make the album come together as a whole very nicely.

Final rating: 10/5

Album Rating: 3.0

Man this thread got my reminiscing of the Mezz days…





Really really excited to check this new record out from the sounds of it

That’s a very topical thing to bring up because I don’t blame a single person who may still have a grudge against me from the mezz days that’s my own fault 1000%

Album Rating: 4.5

Ghost is in last place for me too. I like the opener, although agreed that the context of its placement helps massively. The closer is just kind of 'there' but yeah, fine again due to placement as an outro - bit overlong mind.

Even It Out is ALMOST up there with Shiver / Kandy for me, loved if for spicing things up a little with something somewhat unexpected... definitely the best album stretch.

Album Rating: 4.0

Did the math and Potsy actually thinks it’s a 3.85

Yeah but I can’t rate in 0.1 increments so it rounds up to 5

Album Rating: 4.5

when will this site take a leap into present day and allow us to rank albums by emoji

👍/🤯

Album Rating: 4.5

what the fuck is mezz

Album Rating: 4.0

Some defunct Sput Clique that isn't Casual Convo Crew



Despite being named after Massive Attack's Mezzanine, most of them don't even like it and are like metalheads?

Album Rating: 4.0

Anything on the new one better than Market Square Heroes?

Album Rating: 4.5

'Some defunct Sput Clique that isn't Casual Convo Crew'

casual crew >

The melody’s on Looking For a Ghost sound like something I would have made on my Maschine when I was like 17 just dinking around with a midi keyboard, it’s so fucking bad

Album Rating: 4.0

Pft you call me a cistard for saying I’m not big on the opener and here you are calling a track so fucking bad smh. I do agree tho that it’s not amazing, which is a shame because I like pretty much everything else about that track

Album Rating: 5.0

love u pots

Album Rating: 4.0

Anything on it as good as Sold Baptism?

Album Rating: 4.5

Think of something that’s proper good

It’s about as good as that

Album Rating: 4.0

Well it’s a start. I’ll take it.

Album Rating: 4.0

this mf sounds like what Just Juice Bubbles tastes like

Wtf is just juice?