Album Rating: 4.0
Growing in love with the closing track on this
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Album Rating: 4.0
Same but different now is soty contender for me
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Nice review, I like what I’ve heard from this so far
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Album Rating: 4.0
funny how everyone has different favorites here haha. seen basically every track listed as one! august underground is probably the one for me, amazing build.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Album rules but never quite reaches the insane highs of New Hell. That album is just a perfect set of tracks. This one has a more country-tinged sound and less wall of sound guitars. Still stoked to have more great tunes from them!
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Album Rating: 4.0
Same but different now is still my fav here, the buildup to the ending with Logans screams rips so hard.
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I really wanted to like this more. Not bad but not particularly engaging.
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Still not sure how I feel about the album as a whole; my impression right now is a 3.5 but I like so much of what this band does that I am holding out hope that some of the tracks that aren't clicking as much right now will grow on me. You did an awesome job with this review. At least for me, I'm not sure I see the shoegaze elements as the most resonant part of this band; oftentimes with shoegaze, the textures of the guitars dominate my headspace and all the other elements sort of fill in around them. With Greet Death, I see the songwriting, lyrics, vocal melodies and guitar leads/solos as the primary element, and the textural, shoegaze-y stuff feels more like an accent to what is going on. In short, with shoegaze, I often feel like the "sound" is the point rather than the "songs" being the point, which is what I feel here.
To my ears, they take a lot of elements of 90s Smashing Pumpkins and ditch the hard rock, pseudo-goth ethos to approach it with a more indie/emo one. Their music often hits me with the same sort of viscerally teenaged, beautifully bruisen quality that SP songs like Mayonaise or Galapogos really tap into, and that's when I like them the most.
The quality on this record is generally high; like others have said, "Country Girl" is an amazing song. But this just doesn't feel as refined and held together as New Hell did. New Hell was immediately compelling, stopping me in my tracks and making me say, "oh, THIS is it! I want to see where THIS band goes!" but Die in Love just doesn't have that same impact, vibing with me as merely pleasant and above average rather than truly electric and exciting. It's a good record, to be certain, but I was hoping it would feel more evolutionary.
But, it could be a grower.
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just here to support my friend's review pos'd
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Album Rating: 3.5
Late to this but I'm really enjoying this. Especially Emptiness is Everywhere and the closer.
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Haven't returned to this album a ton but Country Girl is on the short list of songs of the year for me.
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Great review, by the way. Going to listen to this whole thing with a fresh set of ears the second I get a chance.
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Album Rating: 4.0
thanks man! glad people dug this one.
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You're very welcome. Got the time to listen again, only song I don't like much is Red Rocket. Real fond of the final three-track run. Small Town Cemetery is lovely.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Late to this but yeah — excellent album and an equally excellent review, awesome write-up Futures, well-deserved pos.
'Country Girl' and 'Red Rocket' rule
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Album Rating: 4.0
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Album Rating: 3.5
This is growing on me rn
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Album Rating: 4.0
You should see a doctor about that
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Album Rating: 3.5
Bazinga
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short list of AOTY contenders for me, kinda out of nowhere too. I just started listening to them a few months ago and wasn't smitten or anything.
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