Album Rating: 4.5
I get the subtlety and the purpose of it being stripped back to practically nothing for the purpose of forcing you to confront him and the emotions conveyed. To me the emotion just isn't there...lyrically/on paper, sure - like I said I appreciate what he's penned here. But when I listen to his voice I hear someone who is more defeated and expressionless than someone who's grieving / in anguish, which puts me in a situation where I'm straining to confront emotions that I think should be there but instead I feel the need to invent in order to fit what the record supposedly represents. He places everything on such a plain canvas as well; the aimless and noodling guitars that I've mentioned before just underscore that absence of tangible, actually affecting emotion with more dry, expressionless tonalities. To me, he fails to express his grief on a platform dedicated entirely to doing just that. I get the subtlety, I get the purpose...I just can't connect with it either because I can't relate to the angle from which he is delivering the idea of death/grief or because he does not do enough to take his emotional state and make it something musically tangible.
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well yeah, he is just defeated. he doesn't even want to acknowledge that his wife died. i like this kinda sound a lot more than an artist beating you over the head with how anguished they are about something. its pretty refreshing.
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Sowing hates this, so it must be at least a 3.5
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Album Rating: 4.5
it's not for making into art
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Album Rating: 4.5
Whoa nice gif con
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Album Rating: 4.5
oh hey thanks boney
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Album Rating: 4.0
my eyes got wet in the first minute of the album
dddddaaammmm sonnnn
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Album Rating: 4.5
its damn sad
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CROSS MYYYYYYYYY HEEEEEEEEEEARTTTTTTTTTTT
ANDDDDDDDDDD I HOPPPPPPPPPE TOOOOOOOO DIEEEEEEEE
CANTTTTTTT RECCCCCCCCCCALLLLL
THE REAAAAAAAAASONNNNNNNN WHYYYYYYYYYY
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Edgy rating ala
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i just picked a random number tbh
have to listen to this but Unwound is mwah
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ha ha so random
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Album Rating: 4.5
i watched you die in this room
and then i gave your clothes away
im sorry
i had to
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Man, the credits on the insert are more brutal than the lyrics. This was a very moving album.
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Album Rating: 4.5
what do the credits say
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Pretty much just what happened, but not broken up into songs. It gives more context. Also, the songs are chronological and are labeled "1 week after", "11 days after", "2 months after", etc... Again, adding more context.
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Album Rating: 4.5
brutal yeah wow
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Album Rating: 4.5
songs ranked just for fun:
1. Ravens
2. Soria Moria
3. Swims
4. My Chasm
5. Toothbrush/Trash
6. Real Death
7. Forest Fire
8. Seaweed
9. Crow
10. Emptiness Pt. 2
11. When I Take Out the Garbage at Night
6-9 are interchangeable tho honestly
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Album Rating: 4.5
Emptiness Pt 2 might be my favorite after 2 listens tbh
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Album Rating: 4.0
pretty dece ranking
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