Album Rating: 3.5
Listened to your Top 2 Doof and your least favourite (Miss Mabee) and liked them all quite a lot so I guess I need to investigate.
EDIT: Really, really enjoyed my first listen. Title track was a big surprise and it's ace. Vocals are kind of the only thing holding me back a little - they feel somewhat... ordinary? like I'm listening to a good friend sing... not necessarily a bad thing, but it's kind of awkward at the same time.
This is just what I needed to hear right now.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Sitting ill at home, let's see how this hits. Up for some chill music
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Album Rating: 3.0
OK so I turned it off at track 5 and checked the title track after. I can see the appeal but it doesn't work for me. This feels very adventurous but also very boring at the same time. Songs drag imo. Perhaps just me being ill today...
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Album Rating: 5.0
mj - I feel the same, this was the album I needed badly, and Cass isn't the greatest singer but I tell you what...give half these songs to Beck to sing and he'd over egg them to all hell. 'Miss Mabee' isn't a terrible song at all, and it is the right tempo/tone of song after 'Missionary Bell'...I just know he can and has written better similar songs in that style before and it ends up a little workaday.
Beardog - this is what a lot of people feel about McCombs throughout his career, he overstretches material and rambles through genres, but for me two or three songs clicked and then what was a messy discog became a fascinating discog.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Yeah, I can see this clicking for some people, just not for me at this moment.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Would have been interesting if he'd released an 8 or 10 song album from this material, as he has done a lot in the past.
I'd say the following ten song tracklist would have been the most approachable:
Priestess / Peace / Missionary Bell / Asphodel / Girl Named Dogie / Juvenile / I Never Dream About Trains / Van Wyck Expressway / Home At Last / Interior Live Oak
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I have a feeling this is going to be listened a fair whack over the next few months.
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Album Rating: 3.4
I gotta hear this asap.
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I love most of this and will be returning to let it grow on me, but "I Never Dream About Trains" and "Lola Montez Dance the Spider Dance" have some really stellar songwriting especially.
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Album Rating: 3.4
About to jam this finally.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Fingers crossed, I hope you have the patience for this men
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So fucking good
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Album Rating: 4.0
this has some fucking killer tracks, loving it. not quite feeling it being a 4.5 yet but there's room to grow
Missionary Bell is breathtakingly beautiful. Absolutely love the simplicity and evergreenness of it
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Album Rating: 5.0
Missionary Bell, I Never Dream About Trains and Van Wyck Expressway are the ones I just play on repeat all the time
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Album Rating: 4.0
Add Home At Last to that list Doofy
even though it sounds like a song that i've heard a 1000 times, the execution is so good i don't care about all that
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Album Rating: 5.0
So many great songs on this, that's another beauty agreed
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