Album Rating: 4.5
painted grey is easily the second best song here, i'll give you that
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I always preferred the Watcher's Monolith to Painted Grey
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Album Rating: 4.5
Wow, this is nearly 7 years old now...remember listening to this on repeat while playing lord of the rings online. Ahh sentimental value.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is definitely better than I'd initially thought, I'll give you guys that. Felt overlong the first time but even Black Lake didn't overstay it's welcome, subtle dark beauty with a few spectacular moments. I think sometimes you try too hard to find something special & it's better just to let it wash over you. Listening but not concentrating too much, not dissecting it from every angle. Helps with the atmosphere of an album such as this, you get lost in it.
I didn't mean for this to be a mini-essay. Oh well...
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Album Rating: 4.5
What, nooo, it's good to have some longer comments. I tend to write longer ones than that one, but after all I think it's important to display your opinion in a differentiating way and five word comments aren't enough for that.
This is an album that surprised me in a positive way right from the start, but that's because I knew how much less love is gets compared to its three precursors. But even then, it grew for a long time and - like I mentioned above regarding Ghosts of Midwinter Fires - it still surprises me every now and then with something that was "just there" the previous listens that I've come to love completely out of the blue. It's definitely an album that's worth some tries because it - like every Agalloch album up until this point - has a lot to offer on the long run.
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Album Rating: 4.5
If only Serpents grew on me as much as this did.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm always planning on trying to get into Serpent more, but I never really find the motivation. There's not much about that album that makes me want to come back...
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Album Rating: 4.5
Serpent is enjoyable if given some time. If it didn't have the Agalloch name to live up to, there would have been a lot more buzz about it. FWIW, the only weak tracks on it are Vales Upon Dimension and Plateau of the Ages. There's three acoustic tracks on Serpent that are placed perfectly, and are beautiful.
**I've spun Serpent at least 20 times.
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Album Rating: 4.5
That's odd... from what I remember those 2 tracks are actually the 2 that stood out from the rest, but maybe I'm wrong. It's been a while, I'm actually looking forward to re-listening to it since I've exhausted all the other Agalloch stuff recently. I do agree that the acoustic interlude tracks are really really good.
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Album Rating: 4.0
'What, nooo, it's good to have some longer comments'
I agree wholeheartedly but sometimes it makes me feel guilty, not sure why, hopefully no-one really cares but I like to elaborate rather than just say 'classic' or 'sucks' & the like. It's cool if people don't want to do that but personally reading several pages of one word/line comments with little to no substance is kind of boring. It's nice to have an actual discussion.
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I agree with vales being the weakest on serpent but plateau is an epic closer
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Album Rating: 3.5
"I agree with vales being the weakest on serpent but plateau is an epic closer"
Indeed
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Album Rating: 4.0
'To Drown' on here is an epic closer. In fact Agalloch closers are generally strong. I might try out Serpent next, may as well... I'm braced for disappointment though.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Vales and Plateau are the weakest numbers on Serpent.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Plateau was my favorite the last time I checked, but I'll listen to the whole thing again some time the next few days. We'll see what I think of it then.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Dark Matter Gods is easily the best on there imo. The opener rules too.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Didn't like the opener, but Dark Matter Gods is pretty awesome, yeah
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Album Rating: 4.5
tbh the album rules, it's only disappointing by the standards of what preceded it
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah closer on this is amazing, digging it more & more
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Album Rating: 4.5
Today gave me a new found appreciation for this one.
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