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Emim
June 5th 2025


38527 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh damn he rated this a 4.5

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
June 5th 2025


17237 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i should finally listen to this one

Emim
June 5th 2025


38527 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It's a good one

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
June 5th 2025


17237 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

two songs in but man yeah this is awesome. definitely heavy jonny craig era dgd vibes. especially in the cleans, really similar in the way he carries lines longer with that strain. mans got some pipes.

Emim
June 5th 2025


38527 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This and Secret and Whisper are my favorite Saosin adjacent bands

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
June 5th 2025


17237 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah this was phenomenal. absolute fucking HOOKS. ones that are actually memorable! love the builds in a lot of these songs, they are structured really well. cool guitar dweedling, always interesting to listen to and not monotonous. and i like the electronic parts, very tastefully used. kind of wish there was more.



definitely a kind of spiritual successor to downtown battle mountain in my eyes. absolutely loved it.

Dedes
Contributing Reviewer
June 5th 2025


11974 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Honestly the vox here are peircingly high pitched but they have that PERFECT 2000s core whine that kinda sorta works lol

A mastapeice

AmericnZero02
June 5th 2025


3954 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Oh man this record takes me back. I need to give this one a listen asap. The clean vocals and guitars are fantastic. It's a shame they only had just this one release.

SteakByrnes
June 5th 2025


31061 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This album made me love reverby guitar leads

artificialbox
Emeritus
June 5th 2025


3794 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

“i like the electronic parts, very tastefully used”



yeah dude this shit was so refreshing to hear esp coming out of the obnoxious trancecore era

jrlikestodance
June 5th 2025


6803 Comments


Can't stand stuff like this generally but this band stands far above their contemporaries

vult
June 5th 2025


3426 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

lightning in a bottle album for sure



so glad i got to see them live when i had the chance

SteakByrnes
June 5th 2025


31061 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Shame that Bennett passed away a few years ago, I liked his screams and he did all the keys and synth stuff

JayEnder
June 5th 2025


22714 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, I still think about that from time to time. Dude was so young too, only 32 I think. Really sad



This album still holds up remarkably well

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
June 5th 2025


17237 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

oh btw art that "swancore" label i find so funny. like i guess mathy dweedling and poppy choruses is somewhat novel but a real genre? is any post-hardcore album with some math rock influence now "swancore"? rym has added so many nonsense genres lately including mall screamo and sass which are such minor extensions of real genres and i'd say the same for "swancore".

Emim
June 5th 2025


38527 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

How will we gatekeep if we don't have endlessly granular subgenres

vult
June 6th 2025


3426 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This isn’t swancore but I get what you mean, not enough guitar noodling on here

Futures
Contributing Reviewer
June 6th 2025


17237 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i was commenting on art's comment on the last page but also this is sadly tagged as swancore on rym lol

vult
June 6th 2025


3426 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh didn’t see that lol

bellovddd
June 6th 2025


7710 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

hugeee album.



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