This album is really damn gud; kinda meh on 2-3 songs but otherwise I'm happy. Production is a lot better than Greyview as well thank christ and the more melodic direction suits me grand.
Also peeps stating that Reverie/Immolation is too much of a contrast are weak, hard contrast or go home.
Looks like I have to try Stillworld now.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
@Art I 1’d this before it dropped lol. It’s not legitimate
Agree with everything Bubs and Outliers said. Those things also add to my displeasure here
@Venin honestly in this particular instance I’m not even dogging your taste lol I can see how someone would enjoy this. I’m more shocked by the general consensus by everyone that this is somehow 4+ material. I can see someone who likes this more than me giving it a 3.5 easy
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
To be more clear this isn’t inherently bad to me as much as it’s just terribly boring and this band is capable of much better creative songwriting
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“I can see someone who likes this more than me giving it a 3.5 easy”
Agreed. We’ve had a lot of fun here today, but jokes aside, shit either clicks or it don’t. And while we all know that, it’s not much fun for that to be every /thread
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Album Rating: 4.0
I wanted this to be the album that consumed my 2023 like greyview did 2020 dagnabbit. maybe currents will surprise me and drop something aoty worthy
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
yea i dig this hard but i would be pretty surprised if it ends up my aoty
ghost atlas this year PLEASE jesse i BEG of you
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Album Rating: 4.0
Without a Whisper fuckin slaps
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Album Rating: 3.0
Without a Whisper best track on this for sure
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I'd love to hear more Ghost Atlas, but i feel like the only thing that could beat this for me is a new MCR album that follows in the footsteps of The Foundations of Decay
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Album Rating: 3.0
I liked that song where the instruments and vocals get quiet and then the guitar goes bwahmmm bwahmbwahm
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Dawg, if mcr dropped news of a new album, I’d shit my 👖
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Album Rating: 4.0
False Meridian feels like it would've been a better closer, also the fact that they dropped the closer as a single doesn't help either
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
False Meridian as the closer woulda felt mad weird it didn't feel like a closer-type song. Elysium fits perfectly in that spot.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Whatchu mean, that last minute and a half in False Meridian coupled with the last 30 seconds of ambience feels like a better closer compared to Elysium's abrupt short breakdown, and then it just ends, also the buildup to the breakdown is much better on False Meridian
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I guess both could work but Elysium's grandiose, emotional feel just fits more as an end for me on albums like this.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I'm gonna 5 it anyways but I prefer their older stuff with atmosphere that actually gave the instruments room to breathe not this in your face overdose of djent.
Stillworld slaps as a strictly instrumental album. This would fall apart hard without Marcus.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Yeah I honestly prefer Stillworld as an instrumental. Vocals kinda get in the way on there at times.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Agreed, both can work, I just prefer the longer, more drawn out outro of Meridian
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Album Rating: 5.0
instrumental djent is dead besides animals as leaders and cloudkicker
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
true and tbf AAL kinda feels like techy wank for the sake of techy wank. Math rock type stuff is cool but if it lacks atmosphere and emotion it feels weak to me.
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