Album Rating: 4.0

Honestly, I'm kind of shocked that this one is disappointing to so many people. I've been enjoying my spins of it, and I guess it really connected with me in places.



My biggest problem is "Make America Great Again" which feels, really, really dumb, and I'm still not convinced that my rating shouldn't go down another half a point for it.

Album Rating: 2.0

tbf that would be one talented baby

Album Rating: 2.0

I will say actually that the title track really got under my skin, great tune

Album Rating: 2.5

The closer is my favorite song here. Great lyrics.

Album Rating: 2.0

1933 is an undeniable banger and I don't even agree with the message. The rest of the album is just so unbelievably safe, boring and "clean". It is devoid of anything interesting. And Make America Great Again is unforgivable.

Album Rating: 2.0

Was Make America Great Again meant to be somewhat tongue-and-cheek? Or was that a genuine attempt at political discourse?

Album Rating: 2.5

Worryingly I think it's genuine

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

yea this is easily his worst album. pretty much agree with everything.

Album Rating: 2.0

Was more fun when people (incorrectly) hated him for being too right leaning

I feel like this is getting a bit too much hate. I will probably settle for a 3, which makes it his weakest, but it still has a lot of stuff going for it.

what? :0

Album Rating: 3.0

"Was Make America Great Again meant to be somewhat tongue-and-cheek? Or was that a genuine attempt at political discourse?"

Oh, 100% tongue-in-cheek. Expresses some genuine sentiments, of course, but it's supposed to be humorous (that "special relationship" line is obvious, but clever). I think it's same for most of the album: there's no blatant attempt to shovel political opinion, but I do think he has some interesting things to say.

Daniel Bryan says this rules.

Album Rating: 2.0

Daniel Bryan must not have very good opinions

Agreed with Sowing, closer's lyrics are really good and important without being too obvious. Same goes for 1933. Frank has never experimented as much as he does on this album, not necessarily breaking new ground in general, but it's nice that he is willing to change his sound. Blackout is a rather successful alt rock song, for example.

It has a lot of faults and not much stuff here stands out, but it's far from a throwaway album. That being said, Make America Great Again just didn't pan out very well.

Album Rating: 2.0

he needs to make an acoustic album at this point. there is WAY too much shit going on in the majority of these songs.

Album Rating: 2.5

With Make America Great Again I feel like he's trying to reclaim the slogan and rebrand it as an antiracism tune. It's not the worst but it's cheesy as shit and really heavy handed.

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I don't even have problem with its lyrics as much as I do with the clunky verses which sound like a fucking nursery rhyme sung by an 8 year old.

havent gotten around to jamming the full album yet, but i really dug "Blackout" and "1933". MAGA was hot trash tho