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| Neek'd: La Dispute
Got into this band reluctantly and slowly but by the time I got to their last album, I was ravenous in listening to everything they'd done, especially since the EPs were so rewarding. | | 10 |  | Touche Amore/La Dispute
Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World
Yeah okay, so we might as well get to the bottom of this early on. I admire La Dispute's early sound, but it just doesn't do much for me. It's technically good and well executed, but when it comes to emotional music, I'd rather it actually, yknow, sound emotional than loudness and heaviness acting as some kind of suppressant so they don't get their masculinity questioned for having feelings. Well, that and every song here adds nothing new and sounds kinda samey, even if on their own they all range from pretty good to really good. 3.2/5 | | 9 |  | La Dispute
Vancouver
My biggest problem with this EP (or album? idk) is it's uniformity. The closer and a few other tracks serve as nice, interesting hints for what's to come, but it's very clear that they're just trying to plow their sound into the ground as hard as they can. I could barely tell when songs changed the first times I listened to it casually. 3.2/5 | | 8 |  | La Dispute
Here, Hear.
Really breaking the mold for the band early on, this is by far the most experimental or at least un-melodic of the three EPs, and while it's really interesting, it definitely suffers for it. Still, it's cool, engaging, and for it's short runtime I certainly can't complain that they took a daring move like it to change things up. 3.4/5 | | 7 |  | La Dispute
Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
The first album I heard from them, also succeeded in making me uninterested in carrying through with the rest of their discog until people kept nagging me to check Wildlife. But regardless, this is a really good album. It's gorgeous at times, it's extremely well made, it's just not the kind of delivery that affects me emotionally and I was never pulled into it the way I was with their later releases. 3.7/5 | | 6 |  | La Dispute
Tiny Dots
Some great instrumental work from the band that is only expounded by the lovely acoustic-style live recordings that make up the second half. Don't hate me, but I honestly prefer some of these live versions to their original tracks on Wildlife. Overall, it's a solid, if jumbled, release that's really gotten too much hate on here. 3.7/5 | | 5 |  | La Dispute
Here, Hear. II
Starting to get more musical than its previous counterpart, there's some genuinely lovely bits of this that are combined with the same experimentation of before. However, this one is actually just fun to listen to outside of being fascinating like the original, which in my eyes is a serious improvement. 3.8/5 | | 4 |  | La Dispute
Wildlife
Essentially what made me go, "Okay, I should probably got into this band now." It takes the monoloithic slabs of rock from the first and crafts them into more emotionally engaging and varied works. It may not be as monumental as their debut, but it's what I needed to understand what they were doing and where they were coming from. "Safer in the Forest" is goddamn godly by the way. 3.9/5 | | 3 |  | La Dispute
Rooms of the House
Maybe it's just where I was at at the time when I was listening to this, falling in love one week and then having my heart torn out the next, but I kinda just fell in love with this thing. Well, more specifically the "Woman" duology, which exude such a feeling of love and loss simultaneously that I was immediately caught up in it. The rest of the album does incredibly well with its more melodic and laid-back sound compared to its predecessors, no less interesting and yet more varied and engrossing emotionally. There's something about this one. 4.1/5 | | 2 |  | La Dispute/Koji
Never Come Undone
Just downright gorgeous and moving throughout. 4.2/5 | | 1 |  | La Dispute
Here, Hear. III
Every one of these tracks is among the best La Dispute have ever conceived. This is them at their most varied, most melodic, and most inspired. Each song brings something new to the table and absolutely slays at it, all culminating at the beautiful heartache of "Twelve." Don't think anyone could ever convince me that this isn't the best thing the band has ever done. 4.3/5 | |
neekafat
06.18.18 | Sorry Zombie :c | Papa Universe
06.18.18 | Rooms over Wildlife? That's blasph... actually I'm okay with that. | neekafat
06.18.18 | "Woman (in mirror)" hits me so hard man | CugnoBrasso
06.18.18 | As much as I love their music and I can understand the hype, I can't stand Jordan's voice. I've been listening to Vega and Altair for years, great record, but the whiny vocals ruin it for me. | neekafat
06.18.18 | Clearly it didn't completely ruin it if you've been listening for years haha, check Rooms! | sixdegrees
06.19.18 | essential darlingcore | SteakByrnes
06.19.18 | Cannot stand this band | Scoot
06.19.18 | their sound has aged like bagged milk | neekafat
06.19.18 | Well? | SteakByrnes
06.20.18 | yee | neekafat
06.20.18 | Zombie didn't even comment :c | SteakByrnes
06.20.18 | smh Zombie wya my buddy my pal | neekafat
06.20.18 | Maybe he hates me now | ZombieToyDuck
06.20.18 | hmm interesting order, but your ratings are pretty solid so I can't complain too much | neekafat
06.20.18 | What did you think of Vancouver Zombie? |
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