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Review Summary: A beautiful collision of distortion and despair. With Glamorous Thoughts, hardcore act Some Mistakes have given us a collection of dark, confessional, and very moving songs. Huge, emotionally heavy chord patterns, well-crafted guitar harmonies, and pained, raspy vocals all combine wonderfully to give the album a remarkable, and wrenching depth. But the album doesn’t leave it at that; Glamorous Thoughts’ songs are constantly moving, and seldom go to a place where they don’t belong.
Throughout the entire release, Glamorous Thoughts keeps switching things up. Frequent, and well-written riff changes abound, but sometimes that bleak (but beautiful) haze created by the guitars is removed completely, revealing notably bouncy bass lines, and letting the vocals build up even more momentum and power than they had before. This formula is used in “Households,” and it creates an absolutely impeccable atmosphere, bringing you inside and making you wish were as forlorn as the music itself, so you’d never have to leave.
But although in its entirety Glamorous Thoughts is packed with punchy riffs and excellent melodies, the album’s pinnacle is perhaps the ending build-up to its closer, “You Have Killed the Boy.” After its first few passages, all instruments but drums fade away, leaving just a simple kick and snare pattern. Then, a guitar line fades back in, along with the vocalist. Each time the vocalist begins another repeating of the same stanza, another instrument gets added back to the mix. There eventually gets to be so much going on that the final measure, the final climax of the passage could be described as nothing less than a tremendous, and beautiful collision of distortion and despair. All in all, Glamorous Thoughts knows what it’s doing; it pulls all the right punches, and damn, does it pack one marvelously anguished punch.
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eternium (4)
An emotional journey that ends with a sense of hope....
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I lovvvve that summary. Not quite sure why, haha. Nice review 
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thank ya
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Mhmmm haha you're a really good writer C:
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I think this band has something insanely good in em.
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nice review brick, though two minor things:
That describes the whole album pretty well, actually.
This sentence is pretty unnecessary, even redundant considering you previous line in your summary. I would just take it out completely.
Also, watch out for repetitiveness - you use the adjective "beautiful" I think 4 or 5 times in here, I think it'd definitely be worth going back in to change some of those descriptors to something more... descriptive? Good review nonetheless buddy. This sounds awesome, I'm definitely gonna have to check it
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nice review
this album rules
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Thanks, iFght, I'll try to fix it up.
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I replaced the "beautifully" in the first paragraph, got rid of the "that describes the whole album" sentence and replaced the "beautifully" in the last sentence. And you're right, I think all those things did the review a lot of good. I didn't get rid of the "beautiful" in the second paragraph though, because I like the alliteration it has with "bleak," and I added "all in all," where "that describes the whole album" was because it just seems like I needed some sort of transition there.
"There eventually gets to be so much going on that the final measure, the final climax of the passage could be described as nothing less than a tremendous, and beautiful collision of distortion and despair. Glamorous Thoughts knows what it’s doing; it pulls all the right punches, and damn, does it pack one marvelously anguished punch." just doesn't read right to me. So...yeah. Thanks for the tips haha
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favorite thing i own on vinyl. fuck yes atl area.
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These guys are nothing special. They just do the formulaic melodic hardcore sound very well.
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
Those post-metal influences yo.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Yes, Frank, they do do the formulaic melodic hardcore sound very well. Which is why this album is so fucking good.
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i wonder if i'd like this lol
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"Yes, Frank, they do do the formulaic melodic hardcore sound very well. Which is why this album is so fucking good."
yeah, but if you heard the bands who pioneered the sound, this would pale in comparison
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The fact that there's better bands/albums than this doesn't decrease the quality of this.
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"The fact that there's better bands/albums than this doesn't decrease the quality of this."
Yeah it does, because bands have done it so much better, so by comparison, this is nowhere between a 4 and a 5.
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Yeah, but when you rate albums, you don't rate them in comparison to other albums of their genre. You rate them based on the quality of that one album. Other albums shouldn't have anything do with your rating.
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So if I like Norma Jean(Botch worship), I should rate it the same as Botch?
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If you honestly enjoy it just as much as Botch, yes.
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"If you honestly enjoy it just as much as Botch, yes."
Ummmm..... no. If you hear Botch first, you won't rate it the same as a Norma Jean album.
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