Album Rating: 4.0

Wooooo such a great album. Love how the put Third of May like a centrepiece, such fantastic build up before.

Album Rating: 3.0

this is great, wowzers :o

Album Rating: 4.0

Nice one cyg

Album Rating: 3.0

makes me wanna rejam their other stuff, in case i missed sumthin!!

Album Rating: 4.0

I loved the Sun Giant E.P the other stuff can go fuck itself. Hipster indie yank-wank fest.

Album Rating: 3.0

hipster indie yank-wank has it's place imo :]

but yeah, i wasn't yuge on the other stuff so ~~~

Album Rating: 4.5

The intro song on this is amaze

The whole album is amaze

Album Rating: 3.0

still boring after third listen, just not seeing the appeal atm

I get that, this is the first time I enjoy this band.

Album Rating: 4.0

This thing just grows and grows. It might be better than Helplessness Blues...which means I'll have to bump this soon!

Album Rating: 4.0

if you need to keep time on me

Same, like some people already said; with each listen this thing is becoming more massive.

Need to bump it soon.

about to listen. betting this is boring af

this is so god damn monotonous... how do you guys tell one song from the next? there's so little variety or catchiness. helplessness managed to be as emotional without compromising catchiness.

20 minutes in and i've yet to hear one truly standout musical moment

3rd of may is the only song i enjoy so far. i keep waiting for a 'wow' moment in every song, hoping they'll build to something great and beautiful, and then... they just end, and i'm left thinking 'huh... is that all?'

even the shorter songs feel like they go on forever, meandering but not in an interesting way.

Album Rating: 2.9

agreed with the no variety comment honestly, every song is like pretty guitar - monotone, vaguely vocals with that vaguely indie accent - transition into equally unmemorable part at a slightly different tempo, probably marked by a different name in the track title because the band were worried we wouldn't even notice when the song sections end and begin

i feel exactly the same. a lot of the time, when there is a build or evolution, i'm excited to see where it goes, and then it just comes to a complete halt, played out with some barely audible strumming and vocals. there are so many of these quiet moments, and they don't utilize negative space in a very memorable way.

Album Rating: 2.9

would like this a lot more if the singer could hit more than one note ever, for sure

Album Rating: 4.0

I'd argue that whilst the album's transitions make it difficult to distinguish each song from the last to some extent -- at least to the extent that some might find it monotonous -- each of the songs has its own distinct character and set of ideas. In fact, I think it strikes a perfect balance between forming one large cohesive piece and ensuring none of the songs relies on the exact same principles of the last.

'I Am All That I Need' toys with its soft/loud dynamics, 'Cassius' has this odd ascending/descending arpeggiator thing, 'Naiads, Cassadies' has a pretty distinct groove IMO that I haven't quite heard Fleet Foxes do, all of which build towards 'Third of May,' and so on. Of course, each of the individual musical phrases very much sounds like the familiar Fleet Foxes formula, but I feel like its structured fairly impressively, and I keep finding these little odd little ideas that allure me to the album even more.