Album Rating: 4.0
This is great to me now since I can feel the emotional aspect of the album but if I couldn’t relate or wasn’t feeling like shit I’d probably think this is boring. I think it really all depends on your mindset when it comes to the more stripped down intimate stuff like this.
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Album Rating: 4.0
A fair point and definitely agreed. This is a huge "lyrics album" and it requires a little bit of known empathy/shared experience.
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Album Rating: 2.5
How much experience has this broad had by 18/19 years old when she penned these toons?
Three failed marriages and five kids?
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Album Rating: 2.5
'At 16, she finished her homeschooling curriculum and went to college at a private Christian school she describes, only half-jokingly, as a "cult." By 17, she had dropped out of school, returned home, and begun to face a period of difficult transition in her life.'
She spent a year at Sunday school and came home...who has the rights to the movie?!
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Album Rating: 4.0
I mean you can experience traumas and abuse emotionally/ physically/ in any way to any extent at any age. I’m not saying this is saying anything that hasn’t been said in music but the amount of honesty and heartache that translates through her descriptions of whatever it is she went through feels very genuine. The atmosphere is the perfect sparse setting for her voice and lyrics to take center stage but that’s just my opinion.
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I mean it might be genuine-ish, in she's very sad/troubled, it's just not very interesting because the context she's coming from - saying deep things like 'love is mostly war'...sounds a bit like 'singer/song writer' "I'm supposed to say things like these" dress up to me but whatever, I'm banned, what do I know?
I'd rather someone just said 'f'ck off and get out the thread' than ban me which seems a bit over dramatic for a 2.5 rating but this site does seem increasingly prickly at the mo, all the characters/witty users seem to have vacated permanently :/
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Album Rating: 4.0
Sowing you should check Julie Byrne :]
I agree this is more of a lyrics/mood album. "I'm Not Scared" is just gorgeous, one of the big standouts for me. some of the tracks don't do as much for me but all in all this is really nice
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same! "I'm Not Scared" is a soty and what keeps pulling me back. I find the overall mood compelling enough that individual tracks don't shift my enjoyment, I want to hear the full thing.
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Album Rating: 4.0
^basically, this 100%
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Some of this is absolutely magical and then some of it is just utterly dead boring
Gonna listen with the lyrics tonight and see if that helps
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Album Rating: 4.0
yeah I'm not skipping any tracks or anything. I just find "I'm Not Scared" to be the most immediately gripping. those lyrics.. that piano..
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Pitchfork are on-point when they describe this as "the musical equivalent of a whole day spent under the covers." That ruminative loss of time is embodied so effectively in the album's pacing. It's an album at peace with its wasted space; I can't fault someone for finding that boring.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I totally get that sense from this album too. Can totally see someone wondering what the appeal is but there's something about it that I find so easy to sink into.
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This album definitely has a very transportive quality at its best moments
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Album Rating: 4.0
indeed. just keeps getting better for me! will prolly land at a 4
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i'm mulling over 4.5, it's my fav singer/songwriter this year
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Album Rating: 4.0
Niice. It's becoming one of my favorites already as well :-)
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Opener's a beauty.
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Album Rating: 4.0
yeah this just keeps getting better
I love reading the lyrics with it
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Album Rating: 3.5
I'm Not Scared fucked me up on first listen
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