Album Rating: 4.0
xwx is what Grimes wanted to do with SCREAM but it doesn't sound like ass
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Album Rating: 3.5
xwx is definitely better than SCREAM but Art Angels crushes this. Yeule has potential but softscars was a small step backwards; and if we ARE comparing them to Grimes (reasonable given they have said she was an influence), their best so far is a level below what Grimes was doing a decade or so ago.
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Album Rating: 4.3 | Sound Off
there are a lot of reasons why Art Angels has aged poorly re. production standards, songwriting, unimaginative (and often unnecessary) guitar shoehornings, gimmick genre fusions and so on, and while this album makes a positive counterexample to most of them, the number one reason why I hardly ever go near Grimes nowadays (including the handful of songs I rate from her) is that her entire schtick both on- and off- record smacks so much of a scatty dilettante who genuinely loves music but has next to nothing meaningful of herself to put into it beyond her preferences for stylistic hodgepodge. The majority of Art Angels tracks are vapid jingles with (at best) a good hook and distinctive vocal stylings, whereas even at their most vaporous on Sero II, there's such an incomparable level of emotional gravity and (key songwriting point!) thematic focus to the average Yeule track that a comparison with Grimes feels kinda unfair by nature
tl;dr this is probably my least favourite Yeule album, but the personal narrative is so much more meaningful than anything Grimes has ever had to express in her music that we don't even need to open the can on the advantages it boasts re. writing/stylistation/prod or debate aesthetics
especially when both the albums either side of Art Angels are considerably better
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Album Rating: 5.0
Whatever, this bangs
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Album Rating: 3.5
Sadly, what appeals to you as Yeule's "emotional gravity" comes across to me as inauthentic performance art; it feels like disingenuous faux-sincerity and it was what stopped Glitch Princess from transcending its influences (that and the unintentionally hilarious intro and slow burn of the first few tracks). For me, Yeule's artifice holds them back, even if it persuades some.
As for Grimes, we disagree wildly, but this thread is about Yeule so best left alone.
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Album Rating: 4.3 | Sound Off
Pfft at least Yeule has an identity to perform beyond reciting the latest additions to their MAL profile
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Album Rating: 3.5
There's definitely truth in that. Grimes has become incredibly tiresome and I'd much rather have a conversation with Yeule.
And what Yeule's releasing now is way, way better than anything Grimes has done in ages.
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Album Rating: 1.5
Yool
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Album Rating: 5.0
…yeah
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Album Rating: 4.0
They're coming to my town in a couple of months, really curious to see them live and wonder what sort of audience they gather
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Album Rating: 1.0
Here I am to post Johnny's fav comment of all time:
softshit
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Album Rating: 4.0
I do like both this and Art Angels, was just making fun of SCREAM than one is an hilariously bad track
Is the other yeule stuff like this then? I kinda loved softscars. Thought it was going to be some glitchfest abstract hyperpop thing based on album art/name but I was way off it was very immediately catchy and pretty. Ghosts is one of the best songs i've heard all year.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I definitely think you should listen to Glitch Princess. It's a bit edgier, and in my opinion takes a few tracks to really get going, but it's their best so far I think.
Others on this thread are a lot better acquainted with their music though...
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Album Rating: 4.5
The cover of Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl she just did for a movie is very good
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