Album Rating: 4.0

tbh agreed

Next time maybe think twice before trying to hear the ocean through your mom's vagina

youtube and headphones for all unborn surfer bums

Album Rating: 4.5

Yo all I’m gonna say is the intros and outros y’all think are random or some shit, firstly, aren’t random. Secondly, some of the best moments in the album. It’s the 21st century guys..... can we PLEASE for the love of God forget fitting into these compositional boxes and just make free flowing, perfect music with no set structure. It doesn’t always need o be predictable to be worthwhile. Prime example- Vladislav Delay - Anima. Composition is both the method and the way.

Album Rating: 4.5

Having said that the second half of this is definitely the best. Randfilt onward begins the greatest stretch of new music I’ve heard in a while.

free flowing, perfect music with no set structure
Sweet Trip used to do this astoundingly well, then they started writing dreampop songs within very set structures and tacking glitch and gaze skits onto the ends when these had run their course. This ain't a huge detraction but it sure as shit ain't free flowing

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah Johnny I’m not gonna lie the dream pop songs are definitely the worst sinners here. Even though I love them all.....yeah they don’t always hit the same as old Trip.

Album Rating: 4.0

whether or not they are random isn't the issue, the fact that a few of them feel very tacked on, unexplored, and fanservice-y is.

the outro to Polar Equals should have been removed or been made into a normal 4-6 minute song. feels cheap and jarring the way it is right now.

I would have liked the idm/glitch influences to be more seamlessly meshed into the songs throughout them, outside of just the intros/outros. The album is a fine one as it is right now, but still would have preferred something like that instead.

Album Rating: 4.5

Meh, I’ve always liked that kind of thing in songs. Something that you don’t expect. I like the shortness and wouldn’t necessarily want full songs of those parts. This is a personal issue of me but we each hear things different.

Album Rating: 4.5

The fact that in most cases here, the IDM elements werent more seamlessly integrated into songs is my biggest issue here. I do like them though.. and they succeed as buildups often as in the lead up to Chapters.

Album Rating: 4.5

I’m still obsessed with the sound and atmosphere of Randfilt. A song I’d love to be inside of.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

The IDM and glitch does feel tacked on in some places throughout the album

imo for the past 15 years they've been more inspired to make dream pop, shoegaze, and lush soundscapes generally.

Album Rating: 4.0

obssessed with Chapters' lyrics and I don't even know what half of them are

Album Rating: 3.0

Lots of criticisms from the 5/5 gang in here, I expect some drops to reflect this anomaly, in due course.

I have no criticisms

beach house levels of tedium with this one. 3/5

Beach House levels of tedium are sub-3
although 7 was probably better than this. ouch

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I have no criticisms [2]

My point on the previous page was more that they're leaning toward dream pop, shoegaze, ethereal electronic music (which is more to my taste) than the glitch and IDM, which is pretty minimal on here, especially in the first half.

Album Rating: 4.0

my rating isn't actually a 5/5 btw, more like a 3.5/5 or 4/5 but nevertheless

Album Rating: 3.0

Noted.

Animals admitted the dream poppy stuff was structurally unadventurous, Colton admitted the intros/outros aren't that well incorporated (although he did say it doesn't actually bother him) and then your 5 seemed misplaced. That's all I was referring to.