Album Rating: 4.5
Also, when I first heard this album I would completely agree it wasn't consistently awesome. Now I do think it is consistently awesome. No bad tracks. And "Uncanny" off the deluxe edition is fantastic too
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Album Rating: 4.5
Breathe - 4/5
Burn Out Brighter - 3.5/5
Younglife - 3/5
Haight Street - 4.5/5 (so candylisciously awesome)
Soft Skeletons - 4/5
Miserabile Visu - 4/5
I would have agreed with you when it came out but I listened again the other day and I love it
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Album Rating: 4.5
And xtoxin I've seen them twice and the first time they opened with Hello Alone and it was nasty
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Album Rating: 4.5
Actually I told a fib. Lost Songs is not excellent
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Album Rating: 4.5
Oh and since I've loved them since Blueprints I prefer their upbeat-teeter-on-heavy songs. So Hello Alone does it for me
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Album Rating: 4.5
I know just figured I'd clarify haha
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah I've only seen them once (I had the fucking flu, too. What the fuck?). Same tour as when Lakes saw them (with Switchfoot). They opened with Reclusion for me, too.
I agree, usually I tend to want to skip Hello Alone and try my best not to.
And I'm closer to Nash than Lakes on New Surrender's second half. I enjoy most of those songs, and "Haight Street" is really great (even if it's immature as fuck, can't believe Anberlin made that song after making (*fin)).
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Album Rating: 4.5
I really need to hear Anchor & Braille's new one again. I heard the stream once and that's it
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Album Rating: 4.5
Haight Street sounds like a Blueprints B-Side hahaha which is probably why I love it.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Blueprints was pretty bad IMO
Only reason I liked it was because of Stephen Christian's voice. And because Naive Orleans rules. The band isn't suited for mindless pop-punk; they're better at making catchy alt-rock in the vein of "A Whisper and a Clamor"
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Album Rating: 4.5
HAHAHAHAHA btw while I have you guys in here.... When I saw them the first time it was in Atlanta and a fight broke out and they had to stop a song and kick the dudes out cause people were bleeding and when they got them all out Stephen goes... why are you fighting? We aren't even a heavy band. We wrote a song called Foreign Language where we sing "doot doo doo doo"
I was laughing so amazingly hard
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Album Rating: 4.5
And I don't agree. I think they do it all so well. Pop/punk, alt/rock, anything. I love it. I actually prefer Blueprints to New Surrender.
I think the reason why they can do it all is Stephen's voice
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Album Rating: 4.5
I really wish though in a live atmosphere that they would play Glass to the Arson and that's it. They don't really need to play too much else from Blueprints (although as it is now they don't play anything from it)
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Album Rating: 5.0
Hahaha.
And yeah, Lakes, I really enjoyed the U2-style arena rock they did. My only problem is I don't really like "We Owe This to Ourselves." Such a bland song (except for that sweet post-rock bridge). Even "To the Wolves" is pretty average compared to Cities-era rockers.
I'm pretty excited for their new release.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Weird, I liked To the Wolves a lot more than We Owe This to Ourselves (but less than The Resistance, Godspeed, etc.). For an Anberlin song, We Owe This to Ourselves is too aggressive for my tastes.
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Album Rating: 4.5
What DO you like then haha? Blueprints is too poppy, We Owe This to Ourselves is too aggressive... what is your ideal sound?
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Album Rating: 4.5
Had no idea Stephen had a beard now
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Album Rating: 5.0
@Lakes, oh I adore that bridge too. And hell, the chorus works awesome with the bridge. The verse/chorus/verse/chorus before the bridge/chorus is the part that lets me down.
@nash, well to be fair We Owe This to Ourselves is the most aggressive song they have, so no other song has ever struck me the same way. And Blueprints is on the other side of the spectrum; it's basically unadulterated poppiness, which is ok for a band less talented than Anberlin. If they want to go poppy, I'd prefer they take the route of New Surrender; they put (for lack of a better description) distinct atmospheres on each of the songs (I mentioned this in my album) which keeps it from sounding samey.
I like almost everything else they put out, from "heavy" but catchy rockers (Paperthin Hymn, The Resistance), to catchy alt-rock (Feel Good Drag, A Whisper...) to arena rockers in the vein of U2 (Impossible, Closer) to almost-but-not-quite emo acoustic gems (Unwinding Cable Car, Inevitable) to arena ballads (Take Me As You Found Me)
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Album Rating: 5.0
my review of the album* not my album
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Album Rating: 4.5
I see. I think I dislike (and I know many disagree) their slower stuff more than anything. I don't know that I've ever heard a track that I completely hate, but their ones that are slow from start to finish are the weaker imo
Which is also probably why Anchor & Braille's debut didn't impress me so much at first, although I really like the newer one.
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