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MyMentality
March 10th 2023


1766 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Wax Wings is basically The Way The News Goes 2.0, not sure if it's intentionally so similar, but it's still my favourite of the first 3 so far!



EDIT - Wax Wings is easy top 10 Periphery, it's awesome.

kalkwiese
March 10th 2023


11041 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Agreed, Wax Wings was pretty good

Durrzo
March 10th 2023


3625 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

That high note is definitely something

MyMentality
March 10th 2023


1766 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Ah man, this new album is an odd one. Never has something with a lot of punch fell so flat for me. I love Wax Wings and Thanks Nobuo, I'd argue that both of those songs are better than anything on P4 (asides from Reptile). Dying Star isn't actually too bad either. Everything in between just feels like a whole lot of nothing. Kinda how I felt with P3 when I first heard that to be honest.

Those track lengths are seriously ambitious too, just wished they could make something ambitious with them. Probably a 3/5 overall

Tundra
March 10th 2023


10740 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah pretty bad

butt.
March 10th 2023


11428 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't know what to think about this album! Like P IV, there are some tracks that I will probably never come back to after this weekend (cough cough Silhouette, possibly the worst track this band has ever released). On the other hand, some songs will probably replayed to death like Everything is Fine, Wildfire, Dracul Gras. I'll give it a 4, but it's a really weird uneven 4 lol

AlexKzillion
Emeritus
March 10th 2023


19054 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

silhouette is actually...... pretty good?????????



i def prefer it to crush at least

Prancer
March 10th 2023


1652 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

apparently I rated this but don't remember listening to it. why is the new one 70 minutes long

onionbubs
March 10th 2023


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

silhouette has one of the most comically abrupt and unnecessary key changes ive ever heard lmao but is pretty solid otherwise

JohnnyoftheWell
March 10th 2023


64287 Comments


because it has a gazillion unnecessary garageband codas
i'm still genuinely lost for words as to how awful Silhouette is, but Dracul Gras does stick the landing. one of their best tracks probably

pourradass
March 10th 2023


1039 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

+1 on the garageband codas



not that I mind them but it does add artificial length to the tracks rather than having them as short track interludes

Tundra
March 10th 2023


10740 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Dracul Gras is better than PIV songs atleast

Toondude10
March 10th 2023


15372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yup, it's another Periphery album



insta-3



might lower it actually but I'm not sure

butt.
March 10th 2023


11428 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Love Dracul Gras, but saying Dracul Gras is good is also admitting that Reptile is REALLY good. Sorry johnny, I don't make the rules

JohnnyoftheWell
March 10th 2023


64287 Comments


reptile is also one of the best periphery songs here is my homework assignment

Tundra
March 10th 2023


10740 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

dont remember Reptile very well, from what I remember was kinda decent

AlexKzillion
Emeritus
March 10th 2023


19054 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

hmmm pretty much finished my first listen



def the most "prog" album they've done for better or worse



also hilariously ironic i was complaining in the p2 thread about the extended outros on every track of that album, not knowing this new album would be an even worse offender

AlexKzillion
Emeritus
March 10th 2023


19054 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

wildfire and zagreus are still my favorites



everything is fine and dracul gras are also flames



wax wings is really cool



dying star and thanks nobuo exist



silhouette is silhouette



i still do not like atropos

onionbubs
March 10th 2023


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

thanks nobuo is kind of an underwhelming close but maybe only bc satellites and lune are as good as they are



initial thoughts on a ranking are: dracul gras > everything is fine > zagreus > wax wings > dying star > thanks nuobo > wildfire (would be MUCH higher if it it didnt fizzle out so hard in the 2nd half but the 2nd chorus onward it just doesnt sound like they knew where to take the song at all) > atropos > silhouette (i like this song tho that key change is just so bad lmao). gotta be the first periphery album in a while where the heavy heavy is impressing me much more than the ""gay notez""

Prancer
March 10th 2023


1652 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

the end of atropos sounds like music from return of the obra dinn lmao



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