Album Rating: 4.0

I love the t/t, might be my favorite here, but I need sooo much more of that amazing bridge near the beginning

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Still getting into the 2nd disc, I really like a lot of it but is also kinda meandering.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm finding I don't have the attention span to keep at this whole thing consistently, but the highlights are SOTY worthy. Also just because I don't have the time to dedicate to it doesn't mean it's not still a classic.

Album Rating: 1.0

This album is so trash tbh, outside of 2 or 3 good songs.

the album title alone is trash

Album Rating: 4.0

One of the best songwriters of all time transmuting their incredible heartbreak and loss into song.. and it's trash? Lol. Imagine being so jaded.

Album gets better with every listen.

Album Rating: 4.6

I love the t/t, might be my favorite here, but I need sooo much more of that amazing bridge near the beginning

Album Rating: 4.0

that's definitely part of the allure, and that absolutely blue balling, vintage Disney-esque intro

"One of the best songwriters of all time transmuting their incredible heartbreak and loss into song.. and it's trash? Lol. Imagine being so jaded."

Haven't heard this album yet, but nonetheless, that's the typical "it's personal so it can't be bad" argument that has never not been senseless and irrational.

Not gonna disagree with that principle, but the personal aspects are represented here in a way that at the very least gives this album the stakes to be more than trash imo (i.e. its scale and sensitivity in both musical and emotional terms are clear enough to be respectably ambitious, which I'd say takes it out of the harshest ballpark of the harsh when it comes to cynical takes)

Actually having just written that I can think of several respectably ambitious albums that came out as trash, ignore me :]

Album Rating: 1.0

I honestly think every song besides Bright Horses, Galleon Ship, and Fireflies is utter garbage. And even Bright Horses is cheesy as hell, it only works because the melodies are lovely. "Waiting For You" has one of the most annoying hooks I've heard all year; "Night Raid" is the most forgettable song ever; "Sun Forest" is cheese cubed; Ghosteen Speaks exhibits a big problem with the album as a whole, with those annoying backing vocals that rise and fall all the time; Leviathan is just, ugh, again another crazily annoying vocal hook. I just do not get the adoration for this album. The production is top notch but it really does sound like someone fucking around with their first keyboard, and the whole package is just so hokey and overdramatic and I really wish they'd just go back to writing actual songs instead of wallowing and producing this pseudo profound shit.

Album Rating: 4.6

k

Album Rating: 1.0

So out of touch with humanity dude. Feelsbad

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

'Waiting for You', the way Cave sings it, so good

Yeah, waiting for you is gorgeous
I get the dislike for the vibe on this, but any one of these tracks (on the first side, anyway) could have been given the same arrangement as on NMSWP with minimal structural or melodic changes and no-one would bat an eyelid about them being 'actual songs'

Album Rating: 1.0

He sounds like a whiney pussy

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

The dude gives good whiney pussy what can I say

We're talking about the man who made The Boatman's Call here