Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
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grannypantys
January 18th 2025


2603 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

remember when this album used to get a new review every month?

LightAndGlass
January 18th 2025


1786 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

FWIW, I don't think any of Brand New's albums are really one time listen records where you can form a real opinion of it. It took me tons of listens to even get into Deja beyond a couple songs.

veninblazer
January 18th 2025


20069 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

kinda just one of those things where like, even if that's true, do i really want to let myself fall in love with an album so personal after knowing what the writer and singer's done to people? do i really want to concede defeat to a predator?

less importantly, do i really want to concede defeat to the elitist "patricians" that used to bash all emo music and hurl slurs in my direction because I liked stuff they didn't?

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
January 18th 2025


121638 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Man I used to love this band so much but they just don't hit much for me anymore.

onionbubs
January 18th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

tbs > brand new is your best contentious take maybe ever venin lfg

veninblazer
January 18th 2025


20069 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

hell yah. TBS just hits a lot more for me, esp those first three albums

i think i'd even put the first straylight run album ahead, existentialism on prom night is a classic

zakalwe
January 18th 2025


42219 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Get to absolute fuck

onionbubs
January 18th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

im a tbs weirdo and think the sapone produced 2010s stuff is their best, been reppin tidal wave since the day it came out and its only aged like a fine wine since. louder now prob rounds out my top 3



that said i probably like science fiction more than any tbs album and self titled less than your favorite weapon but

veninblazer
January 18th 2025


20069 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

oh the 2010s work isn't bad by any means i especially remembered enjoying happiness is, but yeah the first 3 is absolute peak to me, louder now is my 1, tell all your friends 2 and where you want to be 3, then happiness is 4

ovmunster
January 18th 2025


216 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

liking TBS more than Brand New is like liking Coldplay more than Radiohead. or Puddle of Mudd more than Alice in Chains. I just cannot fathom the credibility gulf between the one band that originated from this scene that showed grandiose artistic ambition versus their generic peer that just made commercial slop.

onionbubs
January 18th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

the extent to which this band was artistically ambitious is overblown anyway and their first two albums before they has those ambitions are more or less useless so sometimes its just the tunes that matter

zakalwe
January 18th 2025


42219 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Brand New are Puddle of Crud

veninblazer
January 18th 2025


20069 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Coldplay's first two albums I can sorta put up there, but Muse's first four all contend with Radiohead's best IMO

Puddle of Mudd has maybe 1 song that is up there with AIC but it's up there with Facelift era not Dirt or S/T

Brand New was cool the few times I listened prior to 2017 but i really can't imagine myself letting this in beyond vaguely acknowledging it's a cool album after the aftermath of what happened with jesse, whereas something like Louder Now is hooks for days

unclereich
January 18th 2025


14380 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Goated

Emim
January 18th 2025


39189 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I would bet if there were no allegations you'd rate this higher

Emim
January 18th 2025


39189 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

"but Muse's first four all contend with Radiohead's best IMO"



Also lmao. First two are good rest are garbage

veninblazer
January 18th 2025


20069 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

possibly? i mean i'd still hate the elitist way people act when propping this up against other albums of its style

absolution is pretty much the 1b to origin of symmetry's 1a

onionbubs
January 18th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

absolution rules what the fuck lmao

Futures
Staff Reviewer
January 18th 2025


17941 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

i mean i really like taking back sunday but pretending they have the same artistic merit as something like this is kinda wild. this is absolutely unique from indie/emo at the time in this style.

onionbubs
January 18th 2025


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

its an apples and oranges thing, just that one is better at being apples than the other is at being oranges



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