Album Rating: 3.5

hey, someone asked the question...

Album Rating: 3.0

"production is like if will yip took a bump of meth and binged the entire three days grace discog"



lmfao

Album Rating: 1.5

In Motion has but a tenth of the atmosphere of a song like Paper Lung. I don't get how those are even comparable songs

Album Rating: 3.5

tbh i think this would be nearly a 9 with better production closer to Disambiguation because the atmospheric qualities would be better emphasized, i agree with that as a criticism but overall i feel the writing rises above the standard on the stations they get airtime on now. well, mostly. maybe it's because i compared and contrasted to the latest breaking benjamin which I found insanely boring and im not even sure why because they've always sounded like they do on Ember

"how exactly is a band to take a simple structure and arrangement musically and make it like, really pretentious and "original" enough for y'all?"

bruh

Album Rating: 3.5

as for how those are comparable give Paper Lung the production quality of this album and change nothing else would the brilliance still shine through? Or would yall complain about that being "butt rock" for its simple arrangement?

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

my name is veninblazer I love radio butt metal and I HATE it when everybody else doesn't!

That Will Yip comment made me scream holy fuck lol

Album Rating: 3.5

what even is the metric for what is or isn't "radio butt metal"? does there have to be a certain technicality to the riffs, atypical song structure all of the time, lack of four on the floor drum patterns, atypical melodies, lack of focus on emotive lyrics/vocals? its so simple but it feels like the point i am trying to make is going over your head which is a shame. its alternative rock, i'm not sure how there's that massive of a quality difference between say, this and that Too Close to Touch album before they stopped being interesting to me.

i'm not sure i'm really following the argument but the gist i am getting is why is more complex instrumentation inherently better than simpler arrangement, to which my reply would be, it's not, but in the case of UO, *most* people (myself included) think they don't write as captivating numbers when they simplify their songs.

venin, i'm really trying but this has to be a joke.

radio butt metal - verse chorus verse chorus bridge final chorus

simpler song structures

big choruses

inherent accessibility

Album Rating: 3.5

I mean Underoath have done simpler (They're Only Chasing Safety is incredibly simple) and it's been a smash hit too!

b/c they're only chasing safety has better songwriting, it's that simple

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

@spirit Why are you even trying to reason with this loser, it's like talking to a brick wall

also, clearly the intentions of they're only chasing safety are different than the intentions of this

Album Rating: 3.5

in places yea, other tracks just get lost in the shuffle for me because they don't have something for me to latch onto where others like Reinventing Your Exit hit like a truck

Album Rating: 3.5

Jesus christ what did I ever do to you Steak

lmao

"in places yea, other tracks just get lost in the shuffle for me because they don't have something for me to latch onto where others like Reinventing Your Exit hit like a truck"

yes, well this is where subjectivity comes into play

i think your time would be better spent not trying to figure out why people do/don't like the same stuff as you and just accept that we have our differences of taste and sometimes that lands us in the majority and other times as the minority.