Good review Sowing. I've missed these guys. To me they've always been hit or miss, but their good songs are really, really good.
I remember reading a review here in like 2008-09 and running to YouTube and seeing the video for Embers & Envelopes and cringing so fucking hard and being instantly turned off by the video, but here I am 10 years later with that song still in my head.
I also didn't know this was out yet, so I've got something to listen to tonight. I'm prepared for some bad tracks at least.
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Album Rating: 3.5
wow, surprisingly really liking this upon first listen. the production is fantastic, and the only bad song is the Overview. there are couple cheesy moments here and there (like wtf is that intro to No Promises) but overall this is beautiful. gonna 4 it initially, we'll see where it goes from there
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Album Rating: 3.0
I reviewed this after 4 listens across about as many days, but hopefully I can find more time to see if this grows. There certainly were beautiful moments.
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Album Rating: 3.5
dave's voice can get a little annoying at times, but honestly I can't find anything wrong the last 6 tracks. the album starts weird, but gains consistency as it goes on.
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Album Rating: 3.0
agreed with that much for sure
back half dominates
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Nobody's mentioned it yet, but I really dig Our Love is a Painted Picture.
Not sure what to make of this yet, but I'm a longtime Mae fan. I seem to have a higher resistance to their cheesiness than most.
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Album Rating: 3.5
that's a great song, for sure.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is growing on me so much. Still don’t like The Overview much aside from the prechorus, but I like pretty much everything else going on here. The 5 song stretch from ‘5 Light Years’ to ‘The Race for our Autonomy’ is excellent.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
sings chorus is so cheese but sO good
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Album Rating: 3.0
So general consensus agrees: cheesy but still good
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Huh. Did one spin last night. I liked it more than I was expecting. It's too bad there's tracks like The Overview that ruin the momentum and make it a hard all-the-way-through listen. Might grow on this one. Some surprisingly nice song compositions. I like the string arrangements too, and I usually hate them because they feel forced.
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Album Rating: 3.5
listening again right now. I just skip The Overview and the No Promises intro, everything else is great.
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I found this album to be meh I like the 3.0 EP much better.
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Album Rating: 5.0
sowing this shit is pretty sweet cant believe ur so lukewarm
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Album Rating: 4.5
this is a classic
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Album Rating: 2.0
I’ve always loved Dave and all, but this is probably the worst thing he’s done. Opener is great as well as some of the older singles like Painted Picture and Let It Die, but really outside of those 3 tracks, I don’t like much of anything else. The Overview is flat out terrible and one of the worst songs I’ve heard this decade. I was gonna go see them back in November for this tour but wound up having to back out last minute. Kinda glad I missed it tbh.
I saw them for the 10th anniversary of The Everglow though and they played that album start to finish and it was fantastic.
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Album Rating: 3.5
now I want to see the acad 5 review of this, because this, while good, is nothing compared to The Everglow or the highlights of morning/afternoon/evening
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Album Rating: 2.0
Yeah I’d say this is worse than Afternoon, and it was my least favorite by quite a large margin until now. The Everglow, Evening, Morning, Destination Beautiful, and even Singularity are great though, and pretty much in that exact order.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
seasons piano suite>everglow>rest of evening>destination beautiful>this>morning>singularity>afternoon
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Album Rating: 3.0
not sure what to make of this album. i agree with the sentiment that some songs are really good, and others are super duper cheesy. i love the 3/4 time on "a race for our autonomy" though
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