Album Rating: 4.5
Definitely going to order it after payday. Stag do in Munich on Thursday and am going to well and truly skint myself as a result. I'm a bit trepidatious tbh......too old.
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Album Rating: 5.0
That'll be a lot of 🍻
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Album Rating: 4.5
This album just gets better, richer and more satisfying on every listen. Mistakes is a hell of a song.
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Album Rating: 5.0
my mum loves it...me too
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need to give this and curtains a visit, been a decade
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Album Rating: 4.0
Digging into this one now... Nice stuff so far but perhaps a tad samey? Will def take some time to settle in.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Tiny Tears" is a real beaut. Love how much more action the strings get on this album compared to the debut.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"My Sister" is about as good as spoken word monologues get. A tragic story but also darkly humorours.
She went blind at the age of five. We'd stand at the bedroom window and she'd get me to tell her what I saw. I'd describe the houses opposite, the little patch of grass next to the path, the gate with its rotten hinges forever wedged open that dad was always going to fix. She'd stand there quiet for a moment. I thought she was trying to develop the images in her own head. then she'd say:
"I can see little twinkly stars like Christmas tree lights in faraway windows, rings of brightly coloured rocks floating around orange and mustard planets. I can see huge tiger-striped fishes chasing tiny blue and yellow dashes, all tails and fins and bubbles."
I'd look at the grey house opposite, and close the curtains.
^ That last line, combined with Staples' delivery, is so funny to me for some reason.
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Album Rating: 5.0
yeah, they're labelled miserable bastards but a very Brit sense of humour lurks beneath the surface
they went one weirder on long spoken word monologues on the track 'Chocolate' which also has some funny lines
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Album Rating: 4.5
My Sister is a classic
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Album Rating: 5.0
rationally speaking it's their best spoken word one by far - beats 'Chocolate', 'Ballad of Tindersticks' and '4.48 Psychosis'
but I prefer 'How He Entered' for whatever reason, just got into it at exactly the right time
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Album Rating: 4.0
The opening trio (not counting "El Diablo..." which is basically an extended intro) are all really fantastic. On paper "My Sister" should be hard to fit in the flow but somehow it just works couched between the two epic ballads of "A Night In" and "Tiny Tears".
The strings really shine on this one too, much more so than on I. A wonderful nocturnal atmosphere too, this is the kind of album it feels wrong to listen to during the day.
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Album Rating: 5.0
The special edition had a Live CD included and the strings on that are incredible
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Damn, this is really getting under my skin. Absolutely love it.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I don't like this as much as the debut, but god damn My Sister is better than anything on it, and maybe also better than anything on Curtains bar Another Night In which is probably in my top 10 songs of all time
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Album Rating: 5.0
Another Night In is a ripper
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my sister is amazing
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Album Rating: 4.5
God I love this album
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Album Rating: 4.5
Man the older Matt Berninger gets the more he sounds like this era Stuart Staples
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