never change sowing

I think I’m just going to not listen to this as to not ruin the nostalgia of my favorite alt rock band ever.

Album Rating: 2.0

Listen to Silverline/Convinced EP's as a single album instead of this (:

Album Rating: 1.0

Rating on principle alone

Album Rating: 2.5

If only they re-mixed the different material so that it sounds like the same release. As it stands, this has some great material but I can't endorse shit like this. The Matty Mullins tracks are good but vocally it's such a departure it doesn't feel like Anberlin at all to me.

Matty Mullins has been fucking terrible since like 2011 wtf is he doing in my Anberlin

Sowing overhyping a bad anberlin record was the safest bet of the year lmao

Album Rating: 2.0

To be fair, I generally agree to Sowing's comments on the song themselves here. Its his willingness to overlook the context in which these songs were released that gets me.



To this day I still can't believe the band is marketing this as their "8th studio album" when it's obviously not but a glorified compilation. If they turned Silverline/Convinced into an 18 song compilation like they did with Devotion OR if these all were 12 brand new songs then we wouldn't be having this type of conversation.

Unnecessary “album”. Also the eps had wayyyyyy better album covers

Album Rating: 4.0

Completely agree about the context and I don't think I've necessarily overlooked it (most of my reasoning can be found in the review). I think it boils down to how you want to judge the album. Either by context as well as what this brings to the table that is actually new (fair!) or by the music itself and the quality of each individual song (also fair). If in 10 years we are still highlighting the EPs over the LP and considering the latter an afterthought, then clearly my stance here will be proven wrong.

Album Rating: 3.5

"To this day I still can't believe the band is marketing this as their "8th studio album" when it's obviously not but a glorified compilation"



Again, this is becoming more commonplace these days in general--I don't really like the trend either but Anberlin's hardly the first to do this kind of thing. Hell, Mullins' other band did it with their most recent album release too

respectfully, it's a little confusing referring to Stephen as Christian in the main part of this review when the guitarist is also called Christian and he does the vocals on Lacerate, I was pretty lost on which one you were referring to for a few paras there

I had a combined EP tracklist too but frankly even that is pretty bottom tier Anberlin, between the insane overproduction on both and Stephen obviously phoning in (reusing Anchor and Braille songs instead of writing new stuff for example). I'm gonna assume the 2 new songs with the blandest singer in the scene do not do this any favours and certainly make it their worst album, I may just check out on this band entirely. Lowborn was a great way to end it

Love Anberlin - they're my favorite band of all time and have been for 15 years now. But this whole release just reeks of last minute cash grab. I *really* enjoyed the last two EPs, but mashing them together with no sense of flow in the tracklist, making no effort made to update the mix so the songs meld together better, and throwing two pretty dull new tracks (tbf Seven is far more interesting than Walk Alone) featuring a pretty dull vocalist does not make for a very competent release. Really disheartened by this whole album rollout.

Album Rating: 2.0

Album cover reminds me of the Gang of Youths "The Man Himself" single if i remember correctly but this one is way uglier. I will gladly purchase the EPs for their artwork alone even if it is pricier than this

Will listen now.

Album Rating: 2.5

I only like one album from this band, but I feel like this is better than almost all of the other ones that I don't like.

I’m just going to listen to Cities tonight because this reminded me how awesome that album is

Album Rating: 4.0

@Rowan that's entirely fair and I should rephrase things when I get a free moment. I also didn't realize that some of these were reworked Anchor & Braille songs :-/ that's going to be additional fuel for the fire in this thread lmao



I really like about 8/12 songs here, with two being decent and the other two being Mullins songs...hence the 4.0. But I get why the context ruins this for people.

Album Rating: 2.5

It's definitely perplexing to just release two eps as a full album. What even is that summary Sowing lol

Album Rating: 4.0

--What even is that summary Sowing lol--



It is a perplexing, yet excellent, moment in Anberlin's history. Hope that clarification helps.