Album Rating: 4.5
best defeater [2]
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Album Rating: 4.5
Lost ground ep is a certified five
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Album Rating: 3.5
lost ground >
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Album Rating: 3.0
that's obvious
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Album Rating: 4.0
I struggle to see the hate for this compared to the preceding releases. Sure, it's not as fresh, urgent, or arresting as Travels or the EP but it's still more of the same, which is really fun melodic hardcore/post-hardcore with peak drumming, catchy riffs, and a well realized, emotional narrative. I usually ignore the acoustic side, also.
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Album Rating: 3.0
It just kind of loses steam the further into the album it gets. The first 3 tracks are outstanding but after that it begins to fall off a lot
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Album Rating: 4.0
Just a taste thing at that point, I guess. Some of my fav tracks on this are actually Empty Glass (masterfully tasteful drums lead the whole track) and Cemetery Walls.
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Album Rating: 4.5
The bass on Cemetery Walls FUCKS
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Album Rating: 4.0
Right? And the really pretty bit with the guitar harmonics gets me every time.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Cemetery Walls in general is such an underrated track.
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I’ll still beat pits ass idgaf
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Album Rating: 4.5
Here to remind everyone once again that this is the best Defeater album. Just in case anyone forgot
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Album Rating: 4.0
wtf happened to this band
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Album Rating: 4.5
S/T was pretty good imo. They went out on a high note at least
Letters Home and Abandoned really aren't as bad as people make them out to be either
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Album Rating: 4.0
I never really cared for the acoustic tracks, but barring that i consider it my favorite. White Oak Doors is like top 3 Defeater for me, and 'At Peace' is really underrated too
Letters Home has some real standouts, but everything after this mostly sounds like a severely watered down version of their sound
also i'm so sad they never did a anniversary tour for this album
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Album Rating: 4.0
Letters Home had Bastards, Blood in My Eyes, and Rabbit Foot. All bangers.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I've come to really dig Letters Home. Abandoned is still in one ear and out the other though
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Album Rating: 4.5
Did they break up?
Letters Home was pretty nice in a vacuum, just an example of diminished returns. The highs are really high though. Abandoned definitely found them spinning their wheels though.
Defeater get a lot of hate in a similar manner to Deafheaven (though not nearly as influential, obviously) in that they deliver some really damn good music wrapped in aesthetics that are antithetical to whatever those genres are ostensibly about. The whole concept thing for them is a bit gimmicky at times (specifically, Abandoned really strains for purpose) and I do think they locked themselves in a bit by sticking to the same group of people, but I'll be damned if their storytelling ability isn't refreshing and pretty good, all things considered. Most hardcore lyrics are basically Live Laugh Love for the worst kind of straight edge guys, so the band sticks out even with sticking to the same storyline again and again.
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