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| 3.7 great | Erwann S. STAFF | November 24th 22 |
Japanese blackgaze with a vocal delivery that sounds like Envy's? Hell yeah, where was this before 2022? With dynamic play and emotions pouring out of every riff, scream, crescendo, and blast beat, Island features some of the best blackgaze of the past couple of years. Now they gotta push their aesthetic up a notch to become more than "the baby of Deafheaven and Envy".
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| 4.0 excellent | ajcollins15 | August 18th 22 |
An extremely solid album that has a lot of what makes the greats of blackgaze and melodic hardcore sound the way they do. The harrowing black metal screams over the blissful and lush shoegaze-style guitars pair nicely with the overall melodic esthetic the Japanese band is going for. However, my biggest complaint with the album is how much the band wears their influences on their sleeves. Specifically, the shoegaze elements sound so close to kings of blackgaze ?Deafheaven? while the post-hardcore and melodic hardcore elements, especially the more spoken word bits, feel ripped right out of an ?envy? album. Still, this is a really solid album if you want that hardcore edge over your shoegaze guitars.
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| 5.0 classic | Lacking | February 21st 24 |
| 3.5 great | Zac124 | October 18th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | BeeRyan | September 8th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Hawks | August 16th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Emo | April 1st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dustx85 | January 20th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nisraak | December 31st 22 |
| 3.5 great | Sowing STAFF | December 17th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | November 10th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | hadriel | November 5th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | arf | September 27th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Darrrk0 | September 25th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Prancer | September 22nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | alamo | September 15th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | nash1311 | September 8th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | wwf | August 31st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | kevbogz | August 29th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | August 13th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | NBA | July 30th 22 |
| 3.0 good | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | July 28th 22 |
| 3.0 good | qt | July 28th 22 |
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