I'd like to think my review was just an agent of gravity and that the 4.2 -> 3.2 drop still has further depths to plumb
Agree though re. averages rising. I think this suffered from an extremely poor choice of singles (I fully expected a 1-1.5 in waiting), which ig counts for pleasant surprise probably even potentially inflating some scores. No idea where this will come down to rest, v good bingo card album
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Album Rating: 4.5
Agreed. I was like everyone else, fully expecting to 1.5 or 2 this. I despised We Love You when I first heard it.
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I honestly can't pick how or where I want to score this.
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tbh this is to metal what the new Saya Gray ep is to indie and i am glad that this year is interesting again
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Album Rating: 3.0
The guitar and drums are what carry this.
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Johnny, rate the year's more interesting albums based on um level of interest not quality.
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Album Rating: 4.5
a johnny 3.5 woahh
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interest tiers:
S: Let's Hope Heteros Fail Learn and Retire
S-: this, new saya
A: Crépuscule I & II, anochi, take me back to eden, kikuo miku 7
A-: SOUNDS for IDVSBL_SBSTC, black medium current
B: dreamglow, 12, dream hacker, let her burn, due in color
B-: living without, rat saw god, devil music
C: after the magic, this is why, desire i want to turn into you, dogsbody, post-american, heavener, travel
C-: Ignore Grief, exul, with a hammer
D: breadgaze, No Highs, new BCNR
Y: periphery V
Z: first two pages of frankenstein
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Album Rating: 5.0
"which ig counts for pleasant surprise probably even potentially inflating some scores."
yeah this is probably part of it. i and probably a lot of people here grew up with a7x as their favorite band. but their career arch turned a ton of us off at various points. hail to the king in particular seemed to turn people off so much that they never even gave the stage (an actually good album) a real chance until many years later, if at all (including me).
i think the seven year break they took between albums really remedied this a bit. like how can you miss something that never goes away, especially an act as mainstream as them?? couple that with an actually good album that shatters any pre-conceived expectation and you get this. i haven't listened to this much a7x prob since 2013 and i'm really loving it
there's also probably a lot of people in these parts happy that the band who used to wear eye-liner and made waking the fallen but then inadvertently became the biggest modern jock metal band besides ffdp made something so nerdy and alienating again
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Yeah alright I’ll eat my own hat.
This is like if Nickelback put out a Mr Bungle record. It’s completely bat shit insane and if there’s one thing I enjoy, it’s a band going bat shit insane.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Two songs deep and I am amazed at what I am hearing. Genuinely incredible stuff.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Yes, G sounds like Mr Bungle but it also gives me strong Zappa vibes- like Overnite Sensation meets Zoot Allures
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Album Rating: 3.0
I admire the ecleticism here, but it's not exactly a cohesive listen.
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Album Rating: 3.5
2 songs in and Mattel genuinely surprised me.
this guy still can't fucking sing though and the vocals are sitting way too high in the mix for that, doubt this will be over a 3 for me for that alone but that's still a shockingly high score for these guys.
intrigued to see where this albums gonna go, here for the weird shit.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Yeah, the fact that the vocals aren't bothering more people is baffling to me. Hot blasts of nacho cheese.
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Album Rating: 3.0
"Cosmic" is incredible
but yeah Shadows' voice is fuckin shot, dude is hardcore struggling on some of these verses. A better vocalists could have really sold this.
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Album Rating: 5.0
i swear its the mix that makes him sound so terrible
there's videos of him singing these songs live where he sounds like his old self... no other explanation why he sounds so bad at points here
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Album Rating: 5.0
vocals slap here i dont know what to tell you
cosmic is indeed incredible
5 songs in and there wasn't a single second of this yet where i felt bored.
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Album Rating: 3.0
And dousing his clearly struggling vocals in effects makes it feel more tacky than anything. I think everyone can agree that Cosmic is one of the best things they've ever done.
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Album Rating: 5.0
the effects are fucking great
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