Album Rating: 2.5
babe you 5'd AMSP and Dragon New Warm Mountain don't spiel about cohesion here
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Album Rating: 4.5
Moon shaped pool is amazing
This is outstanding
Some people have cloth ears.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Some people only want bleep bloop from Yorke now, anything else is regressive :/
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Album Rating: 4.5
What a sad state of affairs
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Album Rating: 2.5
No amount of bleeps could save this drab fluff
Feel that it's core demographic are the same people who thought that the latest Mogwai getting #1 was an augur of rock music's enduring significance
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Album Rating: 4.0
Rock music does have enduring significance tho
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Album Rating: 2.5
Sure it does
It also has a sizeable cohort that recurrently cries wolf on toothless washups
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Album Rating: 4.0
I’ve buried many previous Radiohead affiliated projects but this is genuinely good
There’s stuff on this album as good as ‘All I Need’, ‘Daydreaming’…anything on King of Limbs for sure
There’s nothing ‘god tier Radiohead’ like OK Computer or Kid A but loads here the next rung down (like the tracks mentioned before) imo
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Album Rating: 4.0
I can understand people saying ‘these boys are repeating themselves a bit’ but the time to make that argument was after ‘Amnesiac’ really - if you’ve stayed on board past that then really a bit of cannibalism has always been on the menu
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Album Rating: 2.0
Rock music will remain relevant to me because there's such a vast array of stuff from the 90s I still haven't checked yet... but now?
Yeah, relying on washed-up legacy acts to ignite it with any sense of wider significance seems like wasted effort
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Album Rating: 4.0
there's about as much good 'electric guitar' music as anything else around I'd say, I'm not convinced electronic or hip hop keep 'getting stronger' year on year...or result in any massive significance, music just remains a more niche thing in the 2020's outside of a still just about functioning 'pop/chart factory'. This album is more than comfortable among that setting.
you just don't really get truly world straddling acts in any genre now, not like you did through the mid to late '80s, '90s and early '00s
I wouldn't single out 'rock music' myself - the definition of 'relevance' in music has shifted massively full stop
I just worry you could list a top 20 'biggest bands' now and you'd be looking at Tay Tay, the 1975 or Imagine Dragons or some such - nothing anyone you'd probably chat to yourself would actually choose to listen to. Maybe Drake would feature? Not sure....and there in lies the rub.
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Album Rating: 2.0
I wasn't just talking about the mainstream, the idea of 'mainstream' music being relevant is practically extinct
everything has shifted towards niche communities, freedom of choice etc.
so yeah sure, but I'd have to stretch the boundaries of 'rock' to find much to enjoy lately even if I was dig a little deeper and I certainly haven't been finding it via the avenue of 'legacy artists'
I'm not extending this to 'electric guitar music' outside of the mainstream, far too broad
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does this riff and what have you
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Album Rating: 2.0
"it tends to generate a gentle relaxing toe tap, before they nod off" - however, a couple of the residents commented on the band's lack of energy - "7.5/10, retirement home monthly"
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Album Rating: 4.0
They're ageing gracefully is the truth - the more 'rawk' songs from The Smile debut and the more upbeat electronic tracks by Thom aren't the best.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...but this is the music these cats should be recording in 2024.
Also, if this qualifies as 'rock' then I'd think quite a lot of electric guitar music out there would qualify - I mean the 'post-rock', 'post-punk' and 'art-rock' scenes are pretty fertile tbh if that's your thing and this is sort of aligned to that. Even discounting The Windmill Scene (eh) you have what feels like a hundred well known English or Irish post-punk/post-rock bands
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Album Rating: 2.0
I was just taking the piss
I absolutely do not want anything energetic from these guys now, so this is the theoretical 'direction' they should take in that sense.
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Album Rating: 4.0
yeah fair enough, this isn't a masterpiece but my worries that it might be a sort of auto pilot 'phoned in' nothing slowly evaporated as enough depth and natural atmosphere shone through I guess
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Album Rating: 3.5
tbf if this is the result of someone 'phoning it in' then they've had one hell of a career.
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Album Rating: 4.5
As a side project it’s fucking terrific.
As for the relevancy of anything in pop culture, it all went down the shitter years ago. Nothing of true significance with a staying power to last generations has been released for years despite what some saps offer up.
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Album Rating: 2.0
What a myopic opinion, no one knows what lasts for generations until the generations are past
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