Album Rating: 4.0
This tho works.
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Album Rating: 4.3
The Untouchables and Internal Landscapes are the best by miles...Beginning and the End and Storm before the Calm are solid, and the rest is kinda forgettable
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
they're just too fucking cheesy
the way the last track opens with GOODBYYYEEEEEEEEEE is just nauseating
well, after the even more nauseating and trite speech about going to heaven and everything being super duper happy and warm, it's just too much
not that this record is innocent of wrongdoing, dreaming light and presence do really push it sometimes
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Album Rating: 4.2
Anathema have always been melodramatic as fuck though but I agree Internal Landscapes is too much
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Album Rating: 4.0
the beginning and the end is so good
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Album Rating: 4.3
I've always found the "There's a fire in the sky..." part too convincingly powerful to condemn for being cheesy tbh
Hehe Dreaming Light pushes it so far that I can only enjoy it for being cheesy :P Never cared much for Presence (or Angels Walk Among Us), and I've always enjoyed how the second half (minus Presence and Hindsight) is relatively cheese-free
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Album Rating: 4.3
Nice dig, Art
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Album Rating: 4.2
Dreaming Light is flawless
Angels is really irritating though
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
that's the problem with weather systems, all of it is too much, every single aspect of it is trying /so fucking hard/ to squeeze an emotional response out of the listener and none of it is necessary - at any one given time you have a huge obnoxious vocal section, a huge fucking orchestra or big, bombastic rock instrumentation and frankly you only need one of them at once to get the point across. and yet, the album fires on all cylinders for almost its entire runtime
plus the production just cannot keep up with everything going on and sounds like a compressed, over-wrought mess. i don't get why other people don't see this and why it totally destroys the record for me, it utterly lacks restraint.
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Album Rating: 4.3
"trying /so fucking hard/ to squeeze an emotional response out of the listener and none of it is necessary"
Tbh I agree but still enjoy it (to a limited extent), given my agreement), but since Anathema have always been founded on emotion, I can see why a lot of fans liked that approach
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Album Rating: 4.3
I think the difference between us (Noctus) is that you see it as a bad album because of your reasoning, whereas I see it as a good album that is dragged down somewhat by that reasoning
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Nice dig, Art"
thanks bruh
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Album Rating: 4.2
This album works over-hard to elicit an emotional response just as much as Weather Systems does its just (slightly) more subtle about it
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
i think it's a lot more subtle about it but w/e
it could be true that i'm looking at this with nostalgia-gaze but i think that's as valid a reason as any other to like an album
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Album Rating: 4.2
Fair enough. Weather Systems was the first Anathema I heard outside of a couple jams off A Fine Day to Exit so same with me
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
can understand it being more impactful in that case [:
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Album Rating: 4.2
This is definitely the superior album though no arguments there
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Album Rating: 5.0
I love her vocals in summer night horizon. They really add oomph and variety to the song.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Weather Systems completely opened me up to music in general so I definitely have some nostalgia for it, doesn't mean The Beginning and The End isn't possibly their best song though, that fucking solo
I love Presence and Angels on this tbh, the keys in the first are so atmospheric and mmmmmhhhhhh
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Album Rating: 4.5
the beginning and the end is so good [2]
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