Album Rating: 3.5

I'd like to think Vessel isn't a Nazi like Matty Healy.

this is music for the 'inception is a deep film' generation


i have more

Album Rating: 2.0

I like when a group of people can collectively agree that something's pretentious

Album Rating: 3.5

This is music for the "people who aren't allergic to feeling things" generation.

This is music for the “i need my feelings poorly sung to me for me to feel them” generation

Album Rating: 2.0

Feelings as an empty performative

Album Rating: 0.5

"This is music for the "people who aren't allergic to feeling things" generation."



this is almost funny enough for new display name material



and brb asking chatgbt what's worse between making shit music and being a fake cult leader and making shit music and doing a real fake hitler salute

Album Rating: 3.5

Nah this sounds pretty real and heartwrenching to me. I get not liking Vessel's voice but so much of this criticism comes off as trying way too hard to find shit to hate to me. People give this stuff too much hell imo, it reminds me of back in the day when everyone would make fun of emo and scene kids.

Recently people dragged back up a scene from the BVB Knives and Pens video (I've never been hot on them outside of a few albums, but I see why they were so loved by the emo kids, Andy seems like a good guy and wanted them to not feel alone) and they said they couldn't take it seriously, but that is legit what emo kids had to deal with back in the day. The backlash to stuff like this being emotionally vulnerable reminds me of that. Wouldn't have been surprised if I saw this same crap flung at Loathe's "I Let It In and It Took Everything".

Album Rating: 4.0

don't remember seeing a lot of Sleep Token criticism that didn't come out as pure hater energy tbh

Album Rating: 3.5

This is like the 2023 equivalent to all the crap that teens would get for relating to Linkin Park and MCR.

every band youve listed has awful melodrama so err yeah

but i mean, nobody is bullying emo teens over it, just saying its not very good or tasteful

Album Rating: 1.5

“Feelings as an empty performative” (22222222222222284639349302472929)

Album Rating: 3.5

Nowadays, maybe. But it's probably related to why making fun of emo kids isn't "trendy" anymore. Ironically the "emophobia" back in the day was rooted in queerphobia, because emo kids would express themselves outside of traditional gender roles and the bullies would hit them back with mocking them for not falling in a box. Gerard Way himself even said he never fully identified with masculinity.



I'm glad we as a society have moved on from calling emo kids slurs, but I'm not happy with the assertation that our comfort music of this generation is somehow "pretentious" for being emotionally honest.

Album Rating: 3.5

Those clown core videos were genius.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Agreed about this album having a lot of feeling. Seems to be an unpopular choice but DYWTYLM's lyrics in particular hit me pretty hard every time and sound like they're written from a very personal place of struggling with self-love. Lately reiterating to myself that art is successful if it elicits an emotional response of some kind, and this album does that for me. To each their own. Excited to let this record digest

I don’t know if any backlash against this is because it’s emotionally vulnerable. Does anyone really care if it’s cathartic and expressively at that? I’ll poke at this shit, but all around it’s not really interesting or tapping into anything emotionally that i can use to make me like this more in a “This feels like it was written for me kind of way.” The vocalist sounds like dogshit hitting the sidewalk in a style that doesn’t work for me in this context. It’s the same feeling as listening to someone speak with a stutter when they can’t get the word out, you want to help, but shit, dude.

Album Rating: 3.0

it's okay

vocals and mixing suck ass for the entirety of the runtime, but the music itself is fine

the chugs, they're good, the high point really, but they'd be great if they didn't physically hurt my ears due to the shit fucking production cutting out some frequencies and overblowing others

Album Rating: 3.5

@MoM: see that criticism makes more sense, you don't like the vocals and it doesn't hit for you like it does me. It's the whole "pretentious" thing that gets me. I get the gimmick is a bit silly (I feel like it's just marketing), but beneath it, I hear exactly what I hoped to hear out of this.

Understandable! I’m not into using “pretentious” as a criticism either way, it always feels really presumptuous, so i can see that being a ruffling of the ol feathers. If you’re enjoying this, more power to you!