Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Never bought into a Foxing album but absolutely love this.

Album Rating: 5.0

I have to say I think this has surpassed NMG as my favourite Conor album - NMG has some misses and I don’t think this does

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Also, the sample of my boy JD Harmeyer carried a lot of weight in endearing me to the project.

lol this project is called Smidley

Album Rating: 3.0

You guys are stoned. NMG is full of earworms. There's so much atmosphere, so many gorgeous melodies and hooks. That album is huge. Grand Paradise alone slaps the shit out of this entire album.



I don't really think there's a bad track here but Heaven Knows I'm In Hell is a nothing track, and after 3 spins I'm not dying to keep listening to Breaking My Own Heart, Do You Still Love Me, or Canto of Queens. In Poor Taste and Farewell are pure gold though

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

That loud ass open hi-hat on farewell commands my complete attention every time

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Bolth halves of this really need each other for counterpoint so you don't really get how beautifully the front leads in the back until you've listened to it a time or two

Album Rating: 4.0

Yr silly Rowan I love u u silly goober



Farewell is the best song here for me

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Any guesses What popped into my mind after reading that exchange?

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah I’m on board with NMG being dope as fuck. I love that record.

Album Rating: 4.5

Very. Does Conor have any other side projects that we know of? Or is he featured on any tracks that I might not know about?



Pretty sure I’ve only ever heard him in Foxing and Smidley



And the album release show for this in STL sold out in a heartbeat : (

not gonna lie, I am pretty blown away at how good this turned out.

When he dropped the title track as a single, I did not like it one bit but I love it in the context of the album. This is probably like a strong 4, possibly a 4.5 for me. There's something special here and it's a real 180 from the other Smidley album, which was essentially just a pop rock effort

I feel like I'm the only person in the world who thinks Dealer is a practically faultless record. Never bought into NMG outside the opener (which admittedly is a top 3 Foxing song) and DDTM is... fine?

About a third of the way through this and I like it? I think?

NMG is in my top 10 favorite records ever so I’m looking forward to this

Really relaxing record

NMG is a frustraringly inconsistent record. The highs are stratospheric, but unfortunately there are a lot of lulls and stretches that don't really justify themselves

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

"the back half is where this really comes into its own, but a couple of spins and you see how important the first half is in setting up the themes and offering up the feeling of tension and impending chaos that the phrase “here comes the devil” should hold"



The transition between tracks 2 and 3 is doing a lot of that setup work for me; as a whole Another Devil is probably my least favorite song here (which says a lot because it's still a banger) but its outro just yanks back the curtain and makes it clear that you have a very good reason to feel unsettled, followed abruptly by Do You Still Love Me's intro pretending it never happened through its sheer nonchalance. It creates that sinister undercurrent that keeps you on edge through the next few tracks, which might otherwise lull you to sleep (or at least into a false sense of security), and without it the repetition of "nobody likes to be made to wait" in Table Rock Antichrist wouldn't seem nearly as threatening

Album Rating: 3.0

Agreed Dealer is great and a bit overlooked

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Table Rock Antichrist is a nice Sufjan Stevens tune with a bonus Young Jesus atmospheric outro. Lovely combo.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I think if you slipped that in the middle of Carrie and Lowell, no one would notice