Album Rating: 4.0

All GYBE is essential.

Album Rating: 4.0

I could've believed that before Asunder was released but now...

Album Rating: 4.5

ok

I could've believed that before Asunder was released but now... [2]

Album Rating: 4.5

or u could also fuck off

glad u broke your sputnik rehab session just to say that yak ur so strong

now log back off and go away

Album Rating: 4.5

yo my mum's snoozin and i'm havin a wind down before bed but i'll catch ya later



miss u ofc and xoxoxoxo

Album Rating: 4.5

"I could've believed that before Asunder was released but now..."



Asunder is so much better than its given credit for.

Album Rating: 3.5

I listen to this far more often than LYSF or anything after tbh

Album Rating: 4.5

"Asunder is so much better than its given credit for."



just a 40 min big wet fart

Album Rating: 4.0

asunder rules. yes, even the first track although it goes nowhere

Album Rating: 4.0

First track in Asunder is cool and the last one is awesome, on the same league as their older material but the middle tracks are the most boring things ever made. Can't understand the love for drone music

Album Rating: 4.0

Asunder might not be essential, but it's still excellent and worth a listen. It's also admirable how they tried something new as opposed to mimicking the formula on every other album.

what new did they try on asunder?

Album Rating: 4.0

2 big things make it that it's something new in their cannon: 1. Their first essentially one song album. Instead of building to cresendos or developing atmosphere it's a adventure with a very clear cut path. Massive sounding intro (rather than being subdued or a sample like every other album they've done), calming down to a hum then like a giant resurrecting again.



2. They've put more empasis on Drone then they ever have before, and unlike Allelujah (which is, by a mile the worst thing they've ever done) the Drone tracks serve a purpose.



It's not incredible, but the hate it's getting is pathetic. Less meandering and trimming a bit of fat and I can see mastering this style. It's a big stepping stone in the right direction for them.

I can agree about the structure: starting it big and having a long dronish middle part was pretty new for GY!BE. But simply changing the structure is not what I'd call "trying new things", not really, at least compared to their first three albums.

Which were all post-rock revolutions: the debut I don't have to explain, Lift Your Skinny Fists introduced guitar crescendos, almost "symphonic" warm sound and basically everything that gave Explosions in the Sky and other bands like that a reason to exist, and Yanqui got rid of the multi-part structures and focused on looong, quiet, cold atmospheric passages, again changing the formula of the genre.

Compared to that the "innovation" introduced by Asunder, a mere change in the order of the tracks, from song-drone-song-drone of Allelujah to song-drone-drone-song, doesn't really seem that big - we knew the drones before and we knew the songs before, so incorporating them into that one big track (which doesn't even feel like one big track, more like four/three shorter tracks glued together) - not too shocking.

PS "Mladic" is superb.

Album Rating: 4.0

woulda been better received had they actually kept it as one song instead of splitting it into sections, which makes it easier to negatively criticize.

Album Rating: 4.0

I mean in terms of the band's discography, not in the grand sceme of things. It's evident that their first 3 changed Post Rock forever, but in terms of their career I see Asunder as maturity of their new direction. Much more straight forward and the Drone is finally the focus rather than a feature. Having the Drone to me as the primary focus, directly affecting the songwriting style of the band rather than being a feature of their sound is a big thing. Plus "we knew the drones before and we knew the songs before" holds no weight. They've performed new songs live before the release date of their new album before, yet this is the only album which gets shit for it which makes no sense. Also Mladic is superb live, not on record.

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What I meant by saying "we knew the drones before and we knew the songs before" was not that the songs were known from earlier live performances but that they're not too different from the band's previous works.