kind of them to import the landfill indie experience for basic metalheads fr

Album Rating: 4.0

man what



"landfill indie experience" is laughably uncharitable, lol. At the project's worst, it at least clears the servicable shoegaze bar.

Album Rating: 3.0

I have to admit this is better than I initially thought, but still not great (apart from Mombasa). It gazes sure, but mostly with eyes closed.

Album Rating: 2.0

do they serve lukewarm Coors light at this ‘serviceable’ shoegaze bar?

"clears the servicable shoegaze bar"
relative to who exactly

Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off

LMAO DEMON.

place your bets on where on the spectrum of bars this lies between lukewarm coors and sponsored by blue moon

Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off

Well its not an ice cold Yuengling thats for sure. I'd give it a semi cold Bud Light.

Album Rating: 1.0

at what point did this clear the serviceable shoegaze bar

when the vast majority of adjacent acts fking dropped it ig
"a semi cold Bud Light."
too real - the fill never even left the land :[

Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off

Exactly!!!

Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off

Also I should probably 3 this. I never come back to it.

Album Rating: 2.0

2 it, bad album from a good band

Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off

Nah its definitely not a 2 but it's not great either lol.

i feel the three main arguments in its favour are 1) strong-ish start 2) nothing outright bad and (esp) 3) huge step up from OCHL
and maybe that they were brave enough to filter half their angsty blockbuster metal fanboys (see above), but none of that is cutting the cake by itself

Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off

1000% agreed. Especially the last 2 points.

Album Rating: 1.0

the angsty blockbuster metal fanboys were filtered upon this band's inception



problem is, deafheaven catered to them on new bermuda



I still remember the amount of backlash sunbather got online from trve metalheads, it was wild, but it did get to the band apparently since they did all those shitty metulz solos on bermuda

Album Rating: 3.4 | Sound Off

I love Bermuda a lot but OCHL is inexcusable. One of the worst, messiest albums ever made.

can we amputate Baby Blue discussion from that poor Bermuda guy's body plz, let him have some dignity jfc
and the whole point of Sunbather was that for every old crusty it filtered, it opened the door to a new blockbuster-friendly audience, sanitary Envy climaxes and all. different strokes at play there

Album Rating: 1.0

yes lmao



the next question is, why were deafheaven the ones to blow up despite quite a few skramz bands doing the tremololols before them



was it the mbv-inspired artwork



should I start a masked black metal band and... oh wait there are a lot of those