Album Rating: 4.0
most of the rest after shanty is a minor step down but it's all real good
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Album Rating: 4.0
Slab >
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Album Rating: 3.5
slab is still the best song they’ve made since pygmalion but yeah shanty is an easy second. need to listen again but the album is very easily better than the last one
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Album Rating: 4.0
So far this band didn't do a misstep with any album. I need to get their albums in physical form
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I liked this much more than expected, kisses for example felt underwhelming as a single but fit and flowed amazingly inbetween the context and feeling of the album as a whole.
shanty was my fave too. Vinyl ordered
Last album was a bit more poppy (not in a bad way imo) but this feels much more dreamy, yet still incorporating some modern elements
On second track I got afraid for a second it would turn into pygmalion but luckily didn't go in that direction
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simple as is I find the album art quite captivating too
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Album Rating: 4.0
Slaps hard. Band never misses. They may not be dropping albums at a fast rate but every one of them are quality.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I think their self titled is a hair stronger than this, but man do I enjoy sitting down and listening to a Slowdive album.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Album cover is very stoner rock
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Album Rating: 4.5
The Slab is my favourite, closely followed by Shanty and Chained to a Cloud. This trio are also some of my all time favourites as well. If these were an indicator of where they might go next then I’d be very happy. I love Skin in the Game as well, and Kisses is perfectly placed for some shimmering pristine Shoegaze pop. I’m all for a bit of Slowdive pop when it’s performed this well.
The pulsing keyboards of Shanty and Chained to a Cloud, and the controlled distortion and the krautrock drumming rhythm of The Slab are some immediate highlights.
The downsides for me: after the amazing start, the next 3 feel like a disappointment. Track 2 for an instrumental feels a bit premature. There is nothing bad about alife but in the company of other tracks feels a little average - just Slowdive doing good Slowdive. And I’m not yet sold on Andalusia plays. I get that they went for something a bit different with the closer, more naked vocal approach but I don’t know, the song just feels out of place. The Disintegration feel to the guitars is lovely but it just drags for me.
Overall, I still prefer this to the self titled. 3 classics, 2 excellent, 1 great, 1 good and 1 average. Can’t complain, and despite the slight negative view on some of it. I am enjoying this on repeat.
For the next album I’d like to see a balance between the likes of Shanty/ Chained to a cloud/The Slab and songs where Neil gets a bit braver with his electronics like In Mind and Missing You.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Can’t argue with that
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Album Rating: 4.5
Album is awesome, as expected
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Album Rating: 4.0
Tame Impala-ass drums on the opener
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Album Rating: 3.5
you're an impala-ass
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Album Rating: 3.5
the singles they put out for this album were great, can't wait to give this a spin
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Album Rating: 4.0
The Slab is some of their best work. I looove not listening to singles 😁
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Album Rating: 3.7
why does prayer remembered exist
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Album Rating: 4.0
It’s one of the best here
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Album Rating: 3.5
2nd half of this album was suuuuper nice
anyone else get some "How to Disappear Completely" Radiohead vibes from the first half?
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Album Rating: 3.5
prayer remembered was alright, alife is slowdiving-by-numbers pretty damn hard though. opener is aces
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