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Frippertronics
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

It's better, for one.

Tyler.
November 5th 2017


19021 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

lol

Frippertronics
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

please

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

lol [2]

Frippertronics
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

brb 5ing Skeleton Tree

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Now that’s a 5/5 kind of album

Tyler.
November 5th 2017


19021 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

i was laughing with yuo mot at you

Frippertronics
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"Now that's a 5/5 kind of album"



not even close, you couldn't even tell it followed the same blueprint this did until I pointed it Ben Kettle lmao

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I had only heard this once at the time, and Skeleton Tree follows its own blueprint. And “not even close” you have it at 4.5 :P

Frippertronics
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah!!



"follows its own blueprint"



To a point where people think it's too "out there" and "inaccessible" (from some accounts I've heard when it came out) although lo and behold, someone else already did a decade earlier.



Find it in your heart, you know it to be true (neither this or Manafon is a 3 or 3.5 though lmao)

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Skeleton Tree wins by default because it doesn't have anything like The Good Son, She is Not, and How Little... but the rest of this is excellent. Still not as good as Skeleton Tree tho, despite the similarities.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

except the Bailey songs are the best parts of the album???

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Why did I sense you were gonna say that

Frippertronics
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

because my inner contrarian needs to have an argument



(listening to them in a live context with added electronics would probably suit you a bit more though)

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 5th 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah the electronics on this are amazing at times

AnimalsAsSummit
November 6th 2017


6163 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

best david sylvian yeah



manafon is close to a 5

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 21st 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"Like blemishes against the skin... truth sets in"



Such a fantastic song, and really great lyrics on this overall. Had to bump up my rating while on my first full listen in a while, and noticed the average is at 4 now, which is cool.

AnimalsAsSummit
November 21st 2017


6163 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

every song is atmospheric perfection. inexplicably using glitch in the best way (ala that wonderous year, 2003), and synths that bring about such a gleaming sound of urban futurism, along w the guitars that sound like the folk song sounds of a far off human culture. all while sylvian offers some of his most emotional melodies yet recorded through intricate ambient layers and light percussion, as sublime as ever.

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
November 21st 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

That's a really cool description, and agreed.



For the Love of Life is a great song that was released just a year after this.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
January 2nd 2018


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

still best Sylvian



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