it was indeed a Sleep Token gem
similar tier to "actually I'm using my anime avatar to let people know that I really am a girl" (or something to that effect)

Album Rating: 4.5

a veritable goldmine of a thread



a pasta factory of twisted hate

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I was wondering where that quote came from lmao



I haven't been visiting that Sleep Token thread all that much because the presented amount of hilariously pathetic self-deprecation had long surpassed recommended levels of daily internet mouthbreathing intake

Album Rating: 3.5

Speaking of takes, "folk on its own is dull as fuck" is a doozy

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it might be one of the genres most liable to end up being boring as fuck - ruthlessly separates the wheat from the chaff, folk is Darwinian

Album Rating: 4.5

like I said, folk is best consumed alongside other influences



old-school folk usually employs tools outside its expected wheelhouse



pure modern folk is generally disastrously bad

don't necessarily agree, but i can think of no better burial ground for FOLK MUSIC (which i'm assuming pika is using as synonymous with singer/songwriter) than in the comments of an album named fucking Western Cum lol

Album Rating: 4.5

not all folk is synonymous with singer songwriter though



a lot of modern singer songwriter stuff is pretty damn bad, for sure, yeah, like that most recent weyes blood album

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I meant like straight up yank campfire bullcrap

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Celtic folk and neo folk are yum yum



Psychedelic is another one



Although calling THIS album folk is just being unfair and disingenuous - like Doof has pointed out, it draws from too many influences to be pigeonholed



singer songwriter seems like an apt descriptor here

Album Rating: 3.5

"pure modern folk is generally disastrously bad"



Heard. Folk culture is for the most part dead af with some exceptions

"not all folk is synonymous with singer songwriter though"

true but "all folk" is such a ridiculously broad range of traditional styles and techniques that i don't get what the endgame is there

and move over, neofolk is edgy bullshit for people who should be listening to other genres

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how dare

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Neofolk is good and the necessary flipside of the industrial coin

well you've convinced me to listen to it

rym comment box is the deep intellectual discussion I would expect

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Yeah, this is pretty sick.

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This is very good, indeed. Contrary to the consensus, I seem to be gravitating most to the more country-rock side of things though.

Commenting to remember to check

Album Rating: 3.5

Pale Horse Rider went in one ear and out the other for me but this was a captivating, lovely first listen. "Driving Through Heaven" is a deserving SOTY contender