Album Rating: 2.0
Bruh i loosen up any more my fucken pants r gonna fall down
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Album Rating: 4.5
good
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Album Rating: 2.0
H&G is banger city tho
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Album Rating: 4.0
Literally no clue how anyone who dislikes this could tolerate more than a third of H&G it's like all the most boring parts of post-CTS mastodon stretched to double album length
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Album Rating: 5.0
^this.
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Album Rating: 3.5
“Literally no clue how anyone who dislikes this could tolerate more than a third of H&G it's like all the most boring parts of post-CTS mastodon stretched to double album length”
The opener to this album (and I seem to be alone here, as I’ve yet to see anyone else express similar) is one of my favourite (and certainly at times my ACTUAL favourite) tracks of theirs ever. But as an album, it’s very patchy and feels non-cohesive. The general abandonment of concepts, that earlier albums up till CtS seemed to need, helped gel each as a unified statement. EoF brought that back somewhat (although I’m not a huge fan of that), but H&G did so to far greater effect, IMO; really heartfelt, and (mostly) great material that’s been their most consistent release since CtS.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Hey I'll def concede to this not having an overabundance of cohesion COUNTERPOINT neither does any other album of theirs bar Leviathan
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Album Rating: 3.5
^ Well, their first four were thematically inspired by elements, the last two specifically by awful shit happening to their loved ones. I genuinely feel that even the loose conceptual frameworks of their first records, held each together as a listening experience start-to-finish.
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Album Rating: 4.0
You could make a strong case that awful shit happening to loved ones has been this band's primary lyrical concern since Crack the Skye and if this departs from that MO then i don't think it's by all that much
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Album Rating: 2.8
Remission is defs cohesive in a meathead one-or-two-gear kinda way
but the appeal of Lev/BM is kinda adjacent to teh janky Mars Volta scrambleramble, so cohesion is a secondary concern as long as the thrills were there. CTS made the fatal error to polish that shit up and take it to epic/majestic places that had not nearly as much business on that silly silly roadmap. take Mastodon seriously and you've missed the boat bby
by which token, H&G is also a meme album yes
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah lol "cohesion" felt like the wrong word for playing-loud-heavy-songs-loudly-and-heavily but I'm very much in playlist-building mode rn so fair shit to any rebuttals in that vein
Also @isis good shout on Tread Lightly definitely a personal favorite of mine too
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Album Rating: 2.0
'Literally no clue how anyone who dislikes this could tolerate more than a third of H&G it's like all the most boring parts of post-CTS mastodon stretched to double album length' (2). Word
leave CtS alone tho, they actually delivered on their promises of cohesion and 'polish' that time - lightning in a bottle for the 'don post-Blood Mountain, even if I prefer the previous 'era'
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Album Rating: 4.5
"take Mastodon seriously and you've missed the boat bby"
so you should love this album
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Album Rating: 2.0
I like what I like bruh, cope
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Album Rating: 4.0
THIIIIS TIIIME
THIS TIME
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Album Rating: 3.0
diamond in the witch house is a jam
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Album Rating: 4.5
I genuinely don't understand why this isn't universally loved
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Album Rating: 3.5
Idk, just kinda feels like this is when they started phoning it in a little. Still really solid i think.
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Album Rating: 3.5
it's all disconnected and doesn't have the song-to-song immersion of Leviathan through Crack the Skye. it's a fine album but it comes on the heels of a pretty definitive run of high-concept prog metal classics, and the ambition/scope just isn't there anymore. Mastodon has every right to just make something fun, but I haven't felt the magic since 2009.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I can see that, this definitely has a more impulsive party vibe that I really appreciate
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