Album Rating: 3.5

I like this too much for a 4. But I'd feel guilty having this as a 4.5 and having Cities also at a 4.5. Maybe I'll bump both of them up. Decisions, decisions.

exactly the same for me dude. always thought about bumping this to a 4.5 but i already have cities at a 4.5, as you already said
nah whatever, its great. thats all that counts

Album Rating: 3.5

heh r0bbb I ended up moving Cities up to a 5 and this to a 4.5. I don't know, Cities still doesn't feel like a 5 but whatever.



Also, Lakes you are 100% correct.

Album Rating: 3.5

Again Lakes, you are so spot on. It's the poster child of that album just barely missing that extra something to make it a classic. I 5'ed it despite myself. I just wish instead of "Adelaide" they had something like "Impossible." That'd make the 5 really easy.

Album Rating: 4.0

Cities is a 5.

Album Rating: 3.0

its a 5

Album Rating: 3.5

I'd probably 5 it if "There is No...", "Hello Alone", and "Alexithymia" weren't so average.

Album Rating: 3.5

The only thing bad about Cities is Hello Alone, come on now. And even then it's more average than annoying.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah Reclusion and Alexithymia are both good too. Cities is actually pretty varied when you think about it, with the more synth-based songs like Reclusion and TiNMtLaL, the acoustic ones, the half-acoustic ones, the normal rockers, (*fin), etc.

That's probably what this album is missing for the final push to to a 5, instead of the crappy Take Me / You Belong Here (okay they're not that bad but they drag the album down a lot)

Album Rating: 3.5

Agree to disagree since I like everything on the album except those two. But yeah they're definitely missing some of the Godspeed/The Feel Good Drag tracks on this.

Album Rating: 3.5

Heh, they get the extra +0.5 for being Anberlin/having Stephen Christian as their vocalist!



I would love a Paperthin Hymn, but I hate the lyric "Complaints of Violins" when "Violence" would fit

so much better. But yeah that song and TFD are the best of NTFP imo

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you belong here is one of the few cliche poppy anberlin tracks i enjoy



take me as you found me rules



the worst songs on this are down and depraved and they're both good

Album Rating: 3.5

Depraved is good as all closers are and Down is awesome a la Unwinding Cable Car. How could you even...

Album Rating: 2.5

this is absolutely their worst album, i honestly don't know what people hear in this. lyrics are awful by anberlin's standards, the songs are so formulaic...everything just sounds tired. i hate to say it, but i think the switch to a major label killed them.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

lol wrong

Album Rating: 3.5

so wrong

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Yeah, this is definitely Anberlin's most mature and probably most diverse album up to date

Album Rating: 3.5

lyrics are awful by anberlin's standards

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have you read the lyrics to anberlin's first two albums come on

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Boys speak in rhythm and girls in code

doo doo doo doo

doo doo doo doo