Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
This really kinda sucks to me. I teeter between 2.5 and 3. I’d probably give a 2.5 to anyone else but I love this band. The opener, Hallucinations, and last 2 songs are great but god the meat in the middle is bland as hell. And one of the tracks blood in the field or whatever is awful, easily their worst song. You know what I’m knocking this down to 2.5 lol
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Album Rating: 3.5
Album is good enough for what I've come to expect from Chevelle, but I really wish they'd hired a new bassist to add some variety into the mix.
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
^really? Because it seems like their albums are more complex than this. I mean I’d never really consider them a prog rock band necessarily but they’ve always had a prog rock influence in a variety of ways and there is legitimately none of that here. There’s barely even any sci-fi thematic underpinning outside of the last two tracks. To me this feels like a heavily watered-down version of Chevelle. I’ve been a long time fan. Been listening to them as they’ve come out since WWN anyway; was a little young for Point #1 when it first came out… but this barely even sounds anything like them to me
I have a good friend who grew up listening to them with me as well. He was pumped for the album and he actually liked the singles and he told me that he felt this was their weakest album and didn’t really like it either. I’m not saying he and I are the metric for this band by any means but it’s really hard to consider this in the caliber of their previous albums
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Album Rating: 3.5
Can't say I have longstanding familiarity with the band, but it doesn't surprise me that someone who has been listening to them since 2002 would have a different opinion on the album.
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Album Rating: 3.5
@BrushedRed This sounds pretty close to NIRATIAS imo, tough I ended up enjoying this a little bit more. I find this to be very easy listen from start to finish.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Quality review. This album is standard Chevelle, but that also means it's good.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Thanks @Sowing! (:
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Album Rating: 3.5
This album sounds just as “proggy” as they’ve ever sounded. Even though that’s not really a descriptor I would use for chevelle.
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A bit meh on first listen, but love that theyre continuing with the meaty bass tone.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Solid ass album. Pale Horse is such a kickass opener
Am I the only one who digs Pete's weird vocal inflections on this one lol
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Album Rating: 4.0
bruhhh this is awesome. Pete is killing it throughout.
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Album Rating: 4.0
outro in Shocked at the end of the world is fucking nasty
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Album Rating: 4.0
Shocked is a massive highlight for sure. Might actually be my favorite. Wolves and AI Phobias slap too
Hallucinations and Blood out in the Fields are probably the weakest tracks but they're growing on me
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Album Rating: 4.0
honestly loved most of this. Karma and Jim Jones were good and I def thought Wolves went hard but genuinely found the rest of this to all be among their best
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Album Rating: 3.5
I think Pete took the challenge upon himself to make a legitimate 3.8 album.... and succeeded.
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The album is weighed down by fear-laced projections. ~1.5 (pending)
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Album Rating: 4.5
I mean, the 3.8 shit is funny as hell, but you gotta give it to them; they keep it consistently good.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"The album is weighed down by fear-laced projections."
what does that even mean
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Projection = "a defense mechanism where individuals attribute their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses to others"
Fear-laced projection would be projection but primarily based in fear
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Album Rating: 4.0
Aight then
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