Album Rating: 4.5

That being said…those are the only two songs that are truly comparable. The rest is more just “this is indie + country which is kind of like what PG does”

Change is very classic Big Thief and I don't hear it


I'll give you Pendulum sorta kinda

Album Rating: 4.5

Change can be classic big thief style and still be stylistically similar to another band lol. I don’t know if I really hear it in Pendulum tbh though. That is more arpeggiated acoustic and super duper stripped back, which isn’t really like PG, whereas Change has the simple drums/vocals/easy strumming acoustic

Album Rating: 4.5

Ok goodnight cuties

Hmmm food for thought

I see what yr saying, Change just sounds the most like Capacity and since that's my fave BT album it makes that song sound quintessentially BT to me

Album Rating: 4.5

gotta give em credit for making an album that doesn't sound like shit while also sounding like it was made in the 70s

Album Rating: 5.0

Top Five lads:

Simulation Swarm

Flower of Blood

Promise

Dragon

No Reason.

Not too shabby Luc.

@Colton production in the 70s was great, what are u talking about lol

Album Rating: 3.0

The 70s music recorded by good engineers sounds better than most music today. Better dynamic range, less compressed, and a warmer analog sound. That's filtering out the bad stuff, of course.



There are certain genres of modern music where you get some pretty high quality recordings, though. Most genres with some instrumental emphasis like classical and jazz still sound really great.

U tell'm joe

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Gave this a more considered listen and I think there's a solid 3.5 in here:



Spud Infinity

Certainty

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Sparrow

Little Things

Heavy Bend

Red Moon

Simulation Swarm

The Only Place

Blue Lightning



Little things is the standout song for me on this, everything else is just pretty good. The omitted tracks range from ok to pretty average.

Album Rating: 3.0

Another thing to consider is what version of 70s music you're listening to. A lot of 'remastered' music can also sound compressed to oblivious as part of a 90s/2000s trend of making music increasingly louder on CD reissues.



Around this time, record producers found that they could bypass the peak amplitude that CDs allowed by simply compressing the music. This meant reduced dynamic range and overall worse fidelity in favor of volume.



So albums that originally sounded very good like Michael Jakcson's Off the Wall might actually sound flatter if you're listening to some early 2000s reissue.

Album Rating: 5.0

Seems like ‘Sparrow’ is becoming officially the worst song here according to RYM



Just comes over like the sort of quasi spiritual toon that would have been welcomed with open arms if it was Suffy singing it on ‘Seven Swans’. Dunno, think people are grasping a bit to have a strong negative opinion about a few songs here

Album Rating: 3.0

No grasping required where Spud is concerned, blimey that one is off-putting

Album Rating: 3.0

I don't have any problems with 'Sparrow'. It's a perfectly fine sing. It's no 'Pidgeon' of course.

Album Rating: 3.0

Red Sparrowes > Pidgeon Detectives

Album Rating: 3.0

Damn that's true and all...

Album Rating: 5.0

Demon - you gotta sing along to Spud

sparrow hatred is big sigma
or whatever
fuck your police

Sparrow is indeed the worst song