Album Rating: 4.5

"because atmosphere is way more useful than actual songwriting in whatever fantasy world you aesthetic nerds live in yea"

you clearly missed Ocean Song if you think there's no songwriting backbone here

you clearly missed Ocean Song if you think there's no songwriting backbone here

""songwriting" in the sense of "songwriting tradition" as exemplified by artists like the beatles"

Album Rating: 4.5

good album

Album Rating: 4.5

4.5/5.0 crew, get back in here

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

reporting for duty

Album Rating: 5.0

still haven't heard one good reason why this album is bad aside from "this is bad" etc.

Album Rating: 4.5

[2] explain yourselves cretins.

Album Rating: 3.0

Well I don't hate this, but I'll bite. I'm sure I'm in the minority here when I say this.



I think it sounds too flat. The style they're going for doesn't match the production and ends up making it sound like a close approximation of a noise rock album instead of a "genuine" one (I can't explain it better than this, don't judge my word choice).



Sounds arbitrary, but I'm pretty arbitrary myself so.

Album Rating: 4.5

I accept the criticism but wholeheartedly disagree! The production on most of these tracks works perfectly imo, especially the ominous opener and even more wild songs like the reason they hate me. I can't think of how different production could possibly make Guest House any better.

Album Rating: 3.5

“nah i agree, i like their old stuff but it wasn't all that original and gets grating kinda fast imo. this album has atmosphere like nothing they've ever done“



Not original? If you’ve got some recs for albums that sound anything remotely like Hell Songs please send them my way ASAP.

This shit is too simplistic and repetitive.
I accept that its style is fairly unique though.

Album Rating: 5.0

"This shit is too simplistic and repetitive.



I accept that its style is fairly unique though."



There we go! That's fair.

Album Rating: 5.0

but I genuinely don't know what Sandwich wants to say tbh

He thinks the production harms the music rather than helping it. Don't know what he means by flat though, maybe that it sounds too safe? Like, the production should be more raw or abrassive or something to enhance the noisy things? Idk.

Album Rating: 2.0

Yes I agree about the production. IMO there is not enough layering of the noise so basically it feels sort of flat and empty "behind" the noise if that makes sense. Idk I should probably bump this up a bit but none of the songs really grab me

"Not original? If you’ve got some recs for albums that sound anything remotely like Hell Songs please send them my way ASAP."

Not him, and I wouldn't say Hell Songs is something unoriginal, but try some of the earlier noisy mathcore bands (Botch, Dillinger etc). Also some of that sound can be traced back to some of the bands coming from Skin Graft Records. It's hard to pin down the original source. A lot of the innovators were arround at the same time and recordings dont paint the full picture.

Personally, I hear a lot of U.S. Maple guitars in dissonant Mathcore bands.

Album Rating: 4.5

Respectable opinions across the board, but I don’t see any problem with the production. Granted I kinda wish it was a little more intense and... hellish... like on Hell Songs but the style they went for here is much gloomier and depressing. In other words, I agree with the noise intensity argument to an extent but I think with this return album they wanted *some* form of accessibility for the masses. While this album is by no means accessible, the tone is far easier to listen to than their older material that’s for damn sure.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Personally, I hear a lot of U.S. Maple guitars in dissonant Mathcore bands."



You and your goddamn US Maple. I'll check soon. I've heard a decent amount of mathcore and not too much reminds me of Daughters. I do know that there are similar bands out there, but I also know that ButtBoy is talking out of his butt and doesn't have any basis to call them unoriginal.

Album Rating: 3.5

Also, "It's hard to pin down."



Hence my point. Everyone has inspiration, but when it's hard to trace it back to a specific source, that's when I would consider a band innovative and/or "original". Otherwise, everything would be unoriginal, because there is always a source of inspiration. For me, this album's influences are much more obvious then their self-titled and Hell Songs. There are a lot more no wave, gothic rock, and industrial rock bands akin to this than there are mathcore/noise rock bands akin to their earlier stuff.