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Dewinged
Emeritus
November 27th 2023


33018 Comments


yeah he does that with every album at this point. the cover for this is the ultimate zero-fucks-given example.

StormChaser
November 27th 2023


3148 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This definitely turned out to be my most listened to by Ben, so glad he's not sticking to a certain style, we need more chameleons like Mr. Howard

onionbubs
November 27th 2023


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

definitely respect his willingness to completely reinvent himself even when i cant get into the record

AsleepInTheBack
Emeritus
December 6th 2023


10745 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Big old grower this

Pikazilla
December 6th 2023


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

this is so much better than collections from the whiteout

theBoneyKing
December 6th 2023


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

innit

mouldypigeon
December 7th 2023


245 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Days of Lantana makes me feel a very specific way, totally sublime

onionbubs
December 7th 2023


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

amazing song yeah

Sowing
Moderator
December 8th 2023


45524 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

That's probably the best song here but they're all pretty subtly excellent

Sowing
Moderator
January 19th 2024


45524 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

New single Rumble Strip



It's pretty nice

zakalwe
January 19th 2024


41931 Comments


The more superficial artificial bleep the more substantial anchored soul is lost

Gyromania
Contributing Reviewer
January 20th 2024


38334 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I've talked shit on the Sputnik consensus before, but I'll give the site this: users here have better taste than those on rym. So many great albums are wayyyyy underrated on rym, and this is one of them. a 3.2 for this is wild

Butkuiss
January 20th 2024


8745 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Maybe if he hadn’t released This is Where We Were I might rate this kinder, but it’s the knowledge he’s done much more resonant stuff before that hurts this for me

JohnnyoftheWell
January 20th 2024


64287 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

you mean the album that is called something else and has virtually no direct point of comparison besides being made by the same artist

neekafat
Emeritus
January 20th 2024


26926 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

Lmao

Slex
January 20th 2024


17868 Comments


Got nae nae'd tbh

Dewinged
Emeritus
January 20th 2024


33018 Comments


New single already whoa

DoofDoof
January 20th 2024


17294 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

'a 3.2 for this is wild'



That equates to a 3.6 here will just check the rating here...



...3.7, it is a tiny bit underrated in RYM measures

Gyromania
Contributing Reviewer
January 20th 2024


38334 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

.5 may not seem like a lot but I swear man, the vast majority of albums I run across on RYM are between 3.2-3.6. Some borderline classic stuff being way underrated

DoofDoof
January 21st 2024


17294 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

It’s just the scale



Comparatively they still rate stuff similarly but take off maybe .4 from a sput rating



I actually rate more on the RYM scale as 3.5 for me equals ‘excellent’ - if I changed that then I’d have over 1000 5s and over 2500 4.5s and that would be not so great a rating range



But I actually really like a lot of music so 7000 of my ratings from 12500 equate to ‘excellent’ or higher to me.



The ratings on RYM basically are the same, a 3.5 is a very decent/excellent album on that scale, 3.2 is an ‘approaching very good’ album



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