Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Collide > This > Selfish Machines > Flair [4]

This isn't nearly as front-loaded as Collide or Selfish Machines so that's a definite improvement.

Album Rating: 3.5

Mercury, its just you

This review reads like its a 3.5

Album Rating: 4.0

Cautiously optimistic, listening soon. Plz don't suck.



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WOHWOWHOWHWOH I LIKE THIS

Album Rating: 3.5

Its a nice boi listen. Nothing I see myself listening to repeatedly for years, but something I may come back to at some point

Collide was my first PtV experience, this being my second. Maybe I'm missing the point, but I don't understand how any of this is interesting. Can anyone rec some bands in the same genre/s who do a substantially better job? Curious to give these sorts of bands some airtime, but my experiences so far have been really dull.

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't think you're really missing anything. I ignored these guys for years because their music video thumbnails in recommended YouTube videos were infuriating and I assumed they played highly derivative emo/post-hardcore shit.



It turns out a lot of their music was infuriating, but 1/3rd of each of their albums was a huge guilty pleasure due to highly addictive melodies and energy. But a lot of cringe. A loooooot of cringe.



While they remain a guilty pleasure, it's less painfully-so on this album. Despite the genre, they did mature quite a bit over the years and streamline the sound. I think this is easily their most consistently enjoyable album. It's still PtV...it's still embarrassing to have leak from your car windows, but this shit is just too energetic and catchy for me to hate, even though I think I should.



Like others have said, there's a couple of filler tracks on here, but they're MUCH better than the filler on their older stuff that previously made me cringe and skip the tracks. And the good stuff more than makes up for it.

PTV are one of those compilation bands for me. I just grab the handful of tracks I dig from the albums and never worry about any of the other stuff.

This album is pretty good overall, but I'm only going to be listening to like four tracks from it.

Album Rating: 3.5

I keep going back to Collide after jamming this.

Dive In through Floral are pretty great. It gets pretty boring after that though. Not bad at all, there are definitely some good melodies here and there, just not a very enticing listen.

Album Rating: 3.5

Opening 4 tracks are awesome

5-7 are also pretty good (but not as great)

album drags on track 9 through 10 (gold medal, bedless, sambuka)

and then the album closes out pretty well with song for Isabelle



Cut tracks 8 through 10 and maybe rearrange the track order so its not as front loaded and then I'd appreciate the album as a whole more.

this is garbo

Album Rating: 3.5

Circles sounds so much like Jimmy Eat World and Cartel had a kid. In the best way. Those verses though. Sounds straight out of Jim Adkins playbook

Album Rating: 4.0

Eyyy I knew I wasn't the only one who heard some Jimmy Eat World in here. One song kept having me think that during the intro riff, but I kept not looking at what was playing. Probably Circles.

Album Rating: 4.0

Dive In might be my favorite song of theirs.

Album Rating: 4.0

Gold Medal Ribbon and Song for Isabelle....some of my favorite songs so far this year. I am so pleasantly surprised by this.

Someone pulled the plug on the drummer... He was a total beast on CWTS. On this one there's Texas Is Forever, which is the best song on here, but other than that his performance is completely uninspired. Which sucks, because I'm a drummer and loved what he did on CWTS, even played his drum parts myself.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, it's not too memorable besides in the fastest songs here. I find it pretty serviceable though.



On a high note, this still isn't getting old for me. Guilty Pleasure Gold.

Album Rating: 3.0

Dive in, Floral and Fading, Gold Medal Ribbon, Circles are all great. This album has grown a lot on me, but it still isn't quite as fun as Collide

Album Rating: 3.5

^ agreed