Album Rating: 4.0

valid criticism

Album Rating: 4.0

"Getting some huge Spiderland vibes on this record. Anyone else hear it?"



yea i feel you. I feel they were always kinda influenced by slint anyway

Album Rating: 4.5

I guess to be more specific even, I hear a lot of "Washer" influence. It's probably just me but its the way Jordan speaks tonally on this record in the spoken word sections and the overall atmosphere on some of these tracks.



Whatever though, this album is great on its own merits.

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah i can definitely hear that,



rhodonite soty so far btw

Album Rating: 4.0

Somewhere > Wildlife > Panorama > Rooms



Sure Somewhere is a little melodramatic but I respect how unashamed it is in its melodrama. It’s very cathartic to listen to. And melodramatic lyrics/vocals are kind of expected with emo/hardcore etc. so its not like it feels out of place to me. I understand why people may be turned off by it, but to me emotional honestly is the most important thing in music for me. I’d rather listen to something that feels authentic but is a little corny than something like Rooms which, while decent , I felt it tried way to hard to an embarrassing hipsterish degree to sound mature with all the stuff about make a dish for Thanksgiving and coffee and mason jars and radio and the 50s and stuff. It was like the Vincent Adultman of post-hardcore. This album feels a lot more authentic to me.

Album Rating: 4.5

this > everything

Album Rating: 4.5

"I felt it tried way to hard to an embarrassing hipsterish degree to sound mature with all the stuff about make a dish for Thanksgiving and coffee and mason jars and radio and the 50s and stuff."



if your definition of emotional honesty only makes room for dramatic breakup songs then you're gonna dismiss a lot of great art as dishonest

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Liked the Vincent Adultman reference tho.

Album Rating: 4.5

fuck it, this earned it

Album Rating: 4.0

“if your definition of emotional honesty only makes room for dramatic breakup songs then you're gonna dismiss a lot of great art as dishonest”



That’s not what I meant and I think you probably know that. Rooms focuses too much on stuff that Jordan obviously didn’t experience. Obviously he never claimed to either, I don’t mean dishonest in the literal sense that he’s lying about something. But that disconnect between the emotive vocals style and the much more impersonal lyrics is a weak point to me, in my personal enjoyment of the album. Now obviously Wildlife had a lot of stories about other people but it worked on that album better for me, partly because of the a poem/a jar etc. songs that Jordan said were based more on his own life even if they are technically written from the point of view of a fictional narrator. The thematic cohesion helped sell me on that album more. Also I just like hiw it sounds better. Obviously this is all subjective.

Album Rating: 3.9

haha, damn Sowing



might bump my score higher eventually but rn the only songs that hit me like a truck are "Fulton Street I" and "View From Our Bedroom Window"

Album Rating: 4.0

There You Are (Hiding Place) is super underrated.

Album Rating: 4.5

Every day a different song hits me hard, today it was Hiding Place. I'm fairly liberal with the 5's (usually about 4 of them in any given year) so yeah I've already hit my June quota oops lol.

Album Rating: 4.5

I usually have one or two 5s per year, and this might be #1. We’ll see

Album Rating: 4.5

If something blows me away on an emotional level I don't waste time anymore, I just slap a 5 and move on. Sure, it's resulted in a few regrets down the road, but for the most part once something gets its hooks in me I know it and it only gets better.

Album Rating: 4.2

A NEW BETTER ME NOW



A NEW BETTER ME

Album Rating: 4.5

I almost never give something a 5 the year it comes out (I think Go Farther in Lightness was an exception), but that's just me.



I need to carve out some time to listen to this in a not-work setting. Once I graduated college I had a lot less time to listen to music without being interrupted -- even while studying I could still get crushed by songs. Doesn't happen much at work (except for Fulton Street I here, because, dang)

Album Rating: 4.5

"I almost never give something a 5 the year it comes out"

this is the correct way, don't be like me

Album Rating: 4.0

"Will I ever be me? Will I ever be me?" from Fulton Street I definitely reminds me of "someday I'll find me" from Break on Through (to the Other Side) [pt two] on mwy's latest, though they're exploring those identity questions from different angles. Love it.

Album Rating: 4.5

"this is the correct way, don't be like me"



nah I wish I could shut up my inner critic sometimes and just unabashedly love a record without waiting a year to see if it's still on my mind