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someone
Contributing Reviewer
June 2nd 2023


6624 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

certainly disjointed in pacing and production, but the songs individually are really tight. needs a full volume, headphone experience to get that head-cradling, holding-back-tears Death of a Salesman type experience

tectactoe
June 2nd 2023


7361 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I thought the overall flow here was excellent, start to finish.

juiceviaorange
June 3rd 2023


1051 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This album is so awesome. To be 6 for 6 in this day and age is really a marvel. Such a special band.

juiceviaorange
June 3rd 2023


1051 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Gonna give this a 4th spin and then looking forward to it playing around with the rest of the litter on shuffle

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
June 3rd 2023


16639 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i must have listened to this 10 times today

MillionDead
June 3rd 2023


5326 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

"Band constantly has insanely great album art."



Joe Casey's a wiz with a Xerox machine.

juiceviaorange
June 3rd 2023


1051 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I love how all of their albums have a central image that's a face of some kind...creates a nice bit of consistency while each cover is still very distinctly its own

juiceviaorange
June 3rd 2023


1051 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Also, Greg Ahee is one of the most underrated guitarists doing it

MillionDead
June 3rd 2023


5326 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

He literally talks about that art direction in this cool interview I linked in the Relatives thread.

someone
Contributing Reviewer
June 3rd 2023


6624 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

imma link the interview here, just so people can see it easier



https://youtu.be/w4dlYEsUuEk

MillionDead
June 3rd 2023


5326 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

NEW INTERVIEW



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQAaTWAeN-k

anat
Contributing Reviewer
June 3rd 2023


5753 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

this fuckin rules

anarchistfish
June 3rd 2023


30329 Comments


Tip the Creator is good

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
June 3rd 2023


16639 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

very good interview

Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
June 3rd 2023


5892 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Monster of an album

MillionDead
June 4th 2023


5326 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I'd say it's a logical continuation of what they've been doing. Strong, simple images, featuring faces. The black is starkly contrasting previous designs but it's also the color of mourning.

anarchistfish
June 4th 2023


30329 Comments


Album artwork is great. Nothing here really hitting me like Agent or Relatives though

someone
Contributing Reviewer
June 4th 2023


6624 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

it's a bit of a cheat for Protomartyr, i think. it's all really good, but they cannot make shit music, even if they tried. so like i really enjoyed this album, but Agent and Ultimate Success, and especially Relatives, are so great that this is just kind of in the playlist now, among the other to-be-played-of-shuffle Protomartyr songs

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
June 4th 2023


9813 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"I prefer the best songs by all those bands to the best songs by this band."



I dunno IDLES have no staying power at all, I couldn't imagine listening to one of their albums more than 3 times

MillionDead
June 4th 2023


5326 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I've definitely heard Brutalism and Joy as an Act of Resistance a bunch. I probably only listen to them once or twice a year these days. Protomartyr are pretty consistently in my rotation.



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