Album Rating: 4.5

On first spin, I'm not nearly as stunned by this as I was by Recon Site, but it's definitely great and feels like more of a grower. The songwriting is very different, almost doesn't seem like the same band.

Album Rating: 4.0

Definitely a grower imo.

Album Rating: 4.0

"Chords is amazing but Exiles is kind of just worse Fire Door"

i just threw up over rowan's lap

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Album is one of the growiest growers of them all



Started around a solid 4 for me... now it's my favorite album of all time :D

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah I think I’m just going to have to adjust my expectations a bit on later spins. I was expecting something as punchy as Recon but this is a lot more drawn out (I mean the average song length is still only like 4.3 minutes but that’s the length of the longest on Recon a lot more than the sub 3 min average on it).

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I think my relationship was the reverse - I heard this first, and I guess when I got to RS I was a bit caught off-guard that the songs were so much shorter. At the time I felt RS wasn't as fully fleshed-out as this album - though I eventually realized I was mistaken.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah that makes sense. What I loved so immediately about Recon is that there's absolutely no fat, every moment there is optimized for maximum impact. Not to say that isn't the case here but it's definitely more slow-burning for the most part.

Album Rating: 3.0

This doesn't come close to RS. Aside is a wonderful song however.

Recon was my first and so was always my favourite - but there was a brief period where this reallyyyy clicked with me around 2014 and I put this ahead of recon on my top 100 (which I recently found out was deleted???).

This hasn't reached the same height of love as it used to for me, whereas recon constanstly grew.

Album Rating: 4.0

Am v much in the Boney camp on this, but it's still great

I said it elsewhere but my only issue with this is that the second half is more 4/5 territory whereas the first is 5/5

Album Rating: 4.5

^seconded

Album Rating: 4.5

Already fucking with this more on second listen - in a way this is more my kind of thing than Recon. "Pamphleteer" already bringing those heavy feels.

how I don't know what I should do with my hands when I talk to you
how you dont know where to look, so you look at my hands

Album Rating: 4.5

^^ Yeah Phero that lyric is an early favorite here. Fuck.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah Pamphleteer has been a favourite recently, one of their best.

Album Rating: 4.5

the "Everything Must Go!" through "Left and Leaving" run is lyrically impeccable

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

"Everything Must Go" through "Slips and Tangles" is my favorite stretch

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every. single. second

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

@Dylan hard [2] to that. This record is one of the most emotionally potent things ever. I can only listen to it on a rare occasion.