even conceptually that would completely contradict the point of the album

Album Rating: 3.0

i think what i meant by 'subdued' is that the production is pretty void of an edge. the tempos and arrangements are energetic but it lacks the engaging texture that runs through his earlier work or the aggression here

i have to disagree i feel that the textures are amplified to the point of utter nonsense on this one, i will agree on it being less aggressive than this though but i think thats pretty self-evident considering the direction of the album.

although the few tracks that do come off as subdued compared to the rest of the album are the best songs by far so i do wish it was moreso

Album Rating: 3.0

hmm i'll have to relisten. i was jamming it as i fell asleep and for some reason i didn't find it very bombastic. i was planning on giving it a relisten today anyway

when i think of my favorite baths textures i think of stuff like turian courtship and starlit everglades - that vinyl-ish comforting hiss, which seems to be completely absent on the new one. it reminds me more of the glossy stuff coming out of pc music and the like

"that vinyl-ish comforting hiss, which seems to be completely absent on the new one."

ah i see what you are getting at. i do hear these qualities in many of the songs though, they just seem to be a little less apparent when the instrumentals go really bombastic.

and i think his percussion still has its distinct textures as well

re-listen in headphones maybe wen u arent sleepy sleepy

I just listened Extrasolar and Human Bog and both of them have the vinyl hiss

and Lev

Album Rating: 3.0

mmhmm, i see what you're saying.

not the biggest fan of his voice - mostly because it seems locked in one over-the-top style for the majority of the tracks - but it's not enough to drive me away from the new one. though something tells me it's not going to be a listen that is especially rewarded by multiple listens

Album Rating: 3.0

the more i read of what you're saying the more i feel like this is one of those albums i thought was transcendent on first listen bc i was super sleepy and then i listen to it later and it's a completely different, altogether ordinary/bad album

"not the biggest fan of his voice - mostly because it seems locked in one over-the-top style for the majority of the tracks "

my biggest gripe. he used to be really good at these whimsical, minimal, easily memorizable hooks, which show up occasionally on here but are mostly drowned out by some of the most nonsensical and agitating vocals of his career.

i cant say i didnt see it coming tho. he started treading into that territory a bit on Obsidian here and there and those were the lows of the album.

"the more i read of what you're saying the more i feel like this is one of those albums i thought was transcendent on first listen bc i was super sleepy and then i listen to it later and it's a completely different, altogether ordinary/bad album"

listening to music when ur sleepy can totally completely change the impact i find, for better or worse.

i still think the new album is 'good', its just not the direction i personally wanted. but who really cares what i want, seems like his major demograph for the album finds it very personal and relatable and thats dope for them.

Album Rating: 3.0

i think my favorite baths material is mostly stacked on the first half of pop songs/false b-sides, what do you usually go back to in his catalog?

Album Rating: 3.0

"i still think the new album is 'good', its just not the direction i personally wanted. but who really cares what i want, seems like his major demograph for the album finds it very personal and relatable and thats dope for them." i would be surprised if this isn't the perspective i'm left with after a couple more listens

"i think my favorite baths material is mostly stacked on the first half of pop songs/false b-sides, what do you usually go back to in his catalog?"

pretty much just cerulean and a couple tracks here and there from pop songs, this, and ocean death ep

i have by far the most personal attachment to cerulean

but yeah i think there are enough relatable albums for straight white dudes that we can let a gay dude make an album really relatable for other gay dudes.

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah i'd say mine is similar but flip cerulean and b-sides, which took over my life for several months when i found it despite actively disliking most fot the record's back half

i'm not having much luck finding music from this year i really connect to. oh well

Album Rating: 3.0

"but yeah i think there are enough relatable albums for straight white dudes that we can let a gay dude make an album really relatable for other gay dudes."

ahaha fair enough, though cerulean strikes me as prettttty gay too