Album Rating: 4.0
one of those bands i just don't pay attention to for some reason and no idea why
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Album Rating: 5.0
im happy with their output (like such a good discography) and especially if it causes aaron that much strife wouldn't want to wish that on them
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Album Rating: 3.8
they recorded Birnam right at the end of the sessions and Aaron was totally outta juice. which makes sense why it sounds like he just woke up and is being recorded against his will, man that's a flat vocal performance
also almost every song on PH does the "last minute switch-up" format, it's a good one but you're kinda tired of it by the time Birnam rolls around lol
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Yeah lol there are some amazing codas on that album, but Birnam kinda trudges it
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
I literally do not remember a single second of Birnam Wood and that's how I feel about most of that album after Dorothy until Rainbow Signs shrug emoji
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Album Rating: 3.8
I mean Lilac Queen is top 3 on that album but otherwise kinda understandable
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Yeah I'm genuinely not even trying to badmouth the album but hot damn the first half is a trillion times better than the 2nd
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Lazy take. First half has almost all the rock bangers so it follows it's more memorable, but the album wouldn't carry half as much weight without Magic Lantern Days and Lilac Queen, not to mention Rainbow Signs. The whole p-p-point of Pale Horses is that its vision of decline is cluttered and attritional, which is part of why its second half skew towards washed out cuts with moments of intensity is much more convincing than this album's insistence on doing One Big Rock Song after another
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Album Rating: 4.5
Thank God justice for Magic Lantern Days finally. Great as Red Cow is, don’t tell me that D-Minor and Mexican War Streets match up to what Side B gets up to
And Birnam Wood is great, the exhausted delivery complements it real nice and the subdued first switch up into the “Would you take a bound up Isaac’s place” bit is lowkey onna the record highlights
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Mexican War Streets is a career highlight and D-Minor is severely underrated and arguably one of their best lyrical songs, but sentiment seconded
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Album Rating: 5.0
I might be one of the few who actually prefers D Minor to MWS, the lyrics are just incredible. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying the second half loses steam (it does), I just happen to be so hooked on the lyrics and apocalyptic imagery that it almost doesn't really matter what they're even doing instrumentally lol.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Someone get Sowing the Oxford Handbook of Eschatology, stat.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I was living in Pittsburgh at the time PH came out so MWS is kind of special to me but D-Minor is pretty spectacular lyrically especially where it touches on the inadequacy of language to encapsulate concepts like love and God
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Album Rating: 5.0
I love the weariness of Birnam Wood, personally. I think it just really prepares the stage for Rainbow Signs well while cementing the impact of the records themes.
"Can we not call it a nervous breakdown? My nervous system breaking down."
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Johnny yr kinda really annoying and aggressive lately lol
Also Rainbow Signs is the best song on PH I will concede
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Someone get Sowing the Oxford Handbook of Eschatology, stat"
Just googled it and it sounds like a dream come true, lol, thanks
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Curb ur hyperbole kiddo!! the floor is open and full of terrors
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Album Rating: 4.0
Enjoy, Sowing :]
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Album Rating: 4.5
might be my favorite mwy album
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Album Rating: 5.0
Birnam is great, it's got one of my favorite lines
"Were sorrows measured by your worth, our grief would have no end"
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