Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

you don't like bad music.



but i also don't believe that this is a 4.5

Album Rating: 4.0

probs a 4, you're right < 3

Found some of this very boring and gratingly repetitive but it has some good tunes too. It's love, oslo, a longer moon, the room it was, nothing without you, and open rain are all great, and everything that isn't those is kind of bad. Gonna give it more listens but prob like a 3.5 for me.

Album Rating: 4.0

I found this to be pretty uniformly great, but even if you didn't I'm happy you took away a handful of songs to enjoy. This strikes a perfect balance between melody and reckless energy for me.

Yeah it's a more mature blend of their two signature styles, which is great because they can be a bit all-in on one style on past albums.

i heard dylan baldi eats red meat.

Album Rating: 3.0

That’s why we separate art from the artist

Album Rating: 4.0

Don't sleep on 'A Longer Moon' if you enjoy extended guitar solos FYI

I will never understand how people tolerate Dylan Baldi's voice but more power to ya I guess

this is pretty great on the whole, took a few listens to really sink in tho. don't think it's their best but it's perhaps their most focused and cohesive sound to date

Songwriting is, uh, 'good' but I can't tell if the comparative simplicity is considered restraint or symptomatic of an accelerated writing process. 'A Longer Moon' is a personal highlight though, the dissonant guitar figure cuts through some of the more sugary melodies well.


Piano tone they chose gives the album a big springsteencore energy

Incidentally, remember when Attack on Memory came out and everyone spat on 'Stay Useless'. Haha, yeah.
This album.

Album Rating: 4.0

"this is pretty great on the whole, took a few listens to really sink in tho. don't think it's their best but it's perhaps their most focused and cohesive sound to date"

That sounds about right (focused and cohesive). The melodies are pretty subtle but addicting once they get their hooks in you. Not objectively on the same level as Attack on Memory, but probably their most sheerly enjoyable record for me personally.



"'A Longer Moon' is a personal highlight"

Hell yeah. The guitars on that song are so good.

Album Rating: 3.5

pretty good album

Album Rating: 4.0

Cool to see the average for this climbing. Objectively I think it's pretty clearly their 3rd best, behind only Attack on Memory and Here and Nowhere Else. Personally I prefer this to either, it's a lot more enjoyable.

love that cover art

Album Rating: 4.0

Me too. It's what drew me back into this band after I sort of fell out of love with them for a while. I'm happy I came crawling back ;-)

gave this a full listen through and really ended up digging it! I got weirdly some alkaline trio and smith street band vibes at different parts. Going to give it a few more listens.

Album Rating: 4.0

The user a few comments up who said the pianos give this Springsteen vibes was dead-on. I can definitely hear the Smith Street overlap at times, too.

Played this 4 times this morning while doing chores and I've really come around to it. It doesn't seem especially great upon first listen but the whole package flows very well and the choruses get embedded in my mind the more I play it.