Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand
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LightAndGlass
July 24th 2022


1716 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Man, this is a lot worse than I remember. The title track is the only one that I really fuck with. All the clean vocal sections on here feel so phoned in.

vult
July 24th 2022


3421 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah I remember The End being the strong point of this, but then again I love Lights so that’s prob why.

veninblazer
November 21st 2023


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Am I seeing slander?

onionbubs
November 21st 2023


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

def not nearly as good as i thought it was in high school



do not agree that the title track is the sole shining moment here tho lmao that song has always sucked

veninblazer
November 21st 2023


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This whole album is a journey for me ngl. Love the concept, love the narrative, songs like You're All I Have are exactly the type of kitsch I love in this style. Still my favorite Silverstein album.

Title track owns and The End is possibly their best song.

onionbubs
February 14th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

this would be such a dope 10 tracker. 14 silverstein tracks is way too many tho lol

LightAndGlass
February 14th 2025


1716 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Was annoyed they played American Dream on their 25 year tour. That song sucks hard. Vices didn't do a whole lot for me either. It's weird how much this album grew off me since I liked it a lot when it came out.



Edit: The End was great live though. I think it was the first time I've heard them play it.

onionbubs
February 14th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah this definitely grew off me a lot over the years, though i do still like it. american dream is one of the worst songs on it though yeah

vult
February 14th 2025


3421 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah this falls flat for me. Always thought this was one of the worse Silverstein albums, cheesy writing, not many great hooks, etc.

vult
February 14th 2025


3421 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I’m a Short Songs type of girlie

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
February 14th 2025


115222 Comments

Album Rating: 3.8

DAMN!!!

onionbubs
February 14th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

been jamming them a lot this week because im stupid and thought antibloom was supposed to come out today and not next week lmao and i hate to say it but i kinda lowkey think thats true to a degree about a lot of their stuff. like they have their bangers but all their albums are plagued by cheesiness to a degree and their hooks are so repetitive across their catalog i swear ive heard the same patterns reused as much as four or five times, even on their better albums



i still like them (well, up to about 2017), they have a good handful of huge bangers that i love, and they still majorly slapped ass live when i saw them a week after the worst album they'll ever put out, they know how to play the old tunes like a machine, but i feel like i've kinda come to terms w them mostly being a playlist band for me these days

vult
February 14th 2025


3421 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

They’re like, the quintessential core playlist band. Few bangers throughout their career which makes their live set pretty strong but overall they have like a C+ catalog. That’s why I love short songs because it’s snippets of their strengths as a band without being repetitive or too cheesy, plus half of it is covers anyways. They would be an really strong full time short song band if they tuned the heaviness back up a bit.



I still very much enjoy them and have seen them like a dozen times over the years so.

onionbubs
February 14th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

lmfao yeah. you could make a banger condensed catalog of 4 or 5 albums out of their best songs but they have over 10 albums so its not an amazing ratio

vult
February 14th 2025


3421 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

My jaw hit the floor when they announced the double album cycle

onionbubs
February 14th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

the absolute last thing they needed lmao hoping for 3 good songs each maybe

veninblazer
February 14th 2025


20047 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I still love this to death

LightAndGlass
February 14th 2025


1716 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

The only Silverstein releases I truly love are their first two albums but I dig their EPs from before that too. Everything else has basically been just pick the songs I like off each album. They've for sure always had a cheese factor to them but it feels like it's gotten worse and worse until they've gotten to where they are now.



In the vein of Short Songs, their cover of Rodeo Clown by Lifetime is one of my favorite tracks they've done. It's probably one of my most listened to songs by them.



Just sucks it feels like a lot of their new songs over the past 8 years have felt phoned in. Lots of palm muted power chord verses without a lick of creativity.

onionbubs
February 15th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah musically theyve regressed a lot over the last decade. paul marc joining gave us like one album of inspired riffs and then its been mostly phoned in since



most i like any of their albums is probably rescue although it still has most of their usual problems its just catchier and rips a little more viscerally. knows its place well

LightAndGlass
February 17th 2025


1716 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Couldn't really get into Rescue since Shane's cleans annoyed me a bit during that time but The Artist is hands down one of the best songs they've ever made. I think I've only gotten to hear it once live too, which is a shame because it rips.



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