Album Rating: 4.0
is it just me or are some of the choruses here really samey? also the chorus in Kyoto doesn't really fit the song. doesn't flow well with the verses
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Album Rating: 4.5
"The Ocean Grew Hands hasn't got a patch on Cigarettes & Saints sorry"
They're not exactly comparable songs, they're trying to do completely different things.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Kyoto is easily the best song here
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I agree, but I meant in quality and I was just responding to a previous comparison someone else made in that vein
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Album Rating: 4.0
album is really really growing on me. I still think a lot of the production and electronic instrumentation reminds me of some shitty new wave pop rock like The Chainsmokers which isn't a good thing. for example the bassy buzzing at the beginning of Pyramids of Salt or We Look Like Lightning.
Also, a lot of it feels like by the numbers The Wonder Years songwriting. Like often I think they'll take a song in a cool direction but they instead take song through a pop-in section out of the old TWY toolbox
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Album Rating: 3.5
yeah the songwriting isn't all that different from NCTH or even TGG, there's just some better pacing. It's more consistent than NCTH but I don't think the high points are as quite as high
edit: a word
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Album Rating: 4.0
Cigs & Saints was the best part of NCTH, and nothing here reaches that level
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Album Rating: 3.5
You're right, ButtBoy
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Album Rating: 3.5
Buttttt boyyyy
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Album Rating: 2.5
not awful, but really forgetable.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
C&S is the best TWY song by quite a way
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I still think a lot of the production and electronic instrumentation reminds me of some shitty new wave pop rock like The Chainsmokers which isn't a good thing
this is one of my biggest problems with a lotta popular rock bands these days (incl. alt rock bands): they use a lotta electronically produced sounds but not in a purposeful way, so the eclectic sonic palette just sounds incohesive and meaningless. the vocals-guitar-bass-drums format may be overused but imo its timeless; every instrument has a clear and suitable function.
anyway about this album in particular, im diggin the little touches of produced sounds and effects throughout. i think they're used quite consistently and purposefully all the way thru, and they consequently give the album a unique overall flavour.
I agree, but I meant in quality and I was just responding to a previous comparison someone else made in that vein
"ocean" is a glorious closer but yea, doesnt touch "cigs/saints". that one is easily top 3 twy (probs just behind "now im nothing" and "funeral"), and def the most devastating song they ever made.
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Album Rating: 3.5
lol that one little lick connecting the first two verses in raining in kyoto sounds like they stole it from agalloch
can't remember the exact song
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think many of you missed what I was saying. I said I feel like this album has a lot of counterpart songs with NCTH. Oceans is phenomenal but does not reach the level of cigs and saints (possibly their greatest achievement). I feel like oceans is a good follow up to the song cigs and saints. Like an aftermath or reflection.
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Album Rating: 3.5
at 2:19 of falling snow by agalloch
:31 of raining in kyoto
they totally stole it
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Album Rating: 3.5
Hmmm interesting
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"This sort of thing isn’t for everyone, I guess. There are apparently still people who pine for the Upsides days, who have declined to grow with a band that has made every attempt to evolve with each album. And for new fans, an album like this may be too intensely serious to connect with. But there is so much here."
I can't believe someone actually wrote this paragraph seriously and published it for a front page review.
Elitism and snobbery at its unaware worst.
I think this record sucks, and I don't feel that way because I want to be shocking or because I'm not a genuine fan. I listened to Upsides and Greatest Generation so much that my original CD copies barely play anymore because they are so worn and torn from the thousands of rotations they have endured over the years.
I think this record sucks and I am pained to say it because of how much of a fan I am.
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Album Rating: 4.5
u gunna cri?
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Album Rating: 4.5
scoot I really doubt that was stolen lol. They do sound alike though!
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Is everyone going to keep making inane distinctions between "real fans" and "fake fans"?
Can't believe this piss-poor shadow of the band formerly known as The Wonder Years is getting so much praise for this absolutely lackluster album.
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