Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

including your 5's for the national

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Admit It Again is good. Hardly the best song on the album, but solid

why is this suddenly featured?

lol this review was out like 2 months before the album and nobody cared

"I refuse to even give Admit It Again a shadow of a doubt because seriously, 'the latest Rihaaanna single is a POST MODERN MASTERPIECE' who the fuck says those things even."

Hey, I like to...

a) take quotes completely out of context
b) not understand even the most obvious type of sarcasm
c) use phrases like 'shadow of a doubt' absurdly incorrectly

Also! We should fuck!

It's funny how the negative reviews on the critic's side say that Bemis has nothing to have 'venom' about because much of his spite in this record is aimed towards critics like them. Also, just because an artist got their life together after years of depression doesn't mean that he or she can't write music that's just as passionate as it ever was. Do yourself a favor and don't listen to the critics on this one. They never say anything good anyway. It's probably because most of them are bitter and don't know how to transmit their emotions into something memorable, like real artists do. Max Bemis continues to do just that with this album.

Okay remind me how did Chan get this review up so long ago again?

I give it a 2 only because it was different. Note 2/10. Er, 1/5 still? Lol. Either way, its not really Say Anything but it might appeal to a different set of listeners.

yeah he posted it a while back and it got a feature run too

"its not really Say Anything but it might appeal to a different set of listeners."

Although, you know, it's pretty much continuing in the same direction as their previous release...

found the above as a fan's response on metacritic by the way. im with chan on this one.

The self-titled is pretty similar to this, both sonically and lyrically. And it catches me off-guard that so many view this as some 'weird anamoly' in their catalogue... It sounded much like I expected it to

you expected it to sound shitty?

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I don't know how he did. I thought there had to be a legit stream not just a leak.

"you expected it to sound shitty?"

Hoh, u funny!

Yeah, I think staffers are able to write reviews when an album leaks, and also I believe they oftentimes receive the album far beforehand. Although in this case I think we can safely assume it was the former!

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Still isn't a 1. That's a bit extreme. I could probably move my rating up.

yay a chan review

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

"The self-titled is pretty similar to this, both sonically and lyrically. And it catches me off-guard that so many view this as some 'weird anamoly' in their catalogue... It sounded much like I expected it to"



Exactly. It's basically Self-titled Part II with little differences: less polished production, a more consistent sound, etc.

Album Rating: 2.0

Except the self-titled isn't terrible.



I want to like this. The song 'Say Anything' has some righteous guitar work, Burn a Miracle is catchy as all hell, and is pretty much only brought down by the ill-advised intro. Sheep would almost fit right in on In Defense, and Overbiter is, if a little predictable, an otherwise good song. The Stephen Hawking is a little plodding and incohesive, but still explosive, catchy and one of the only songs on the album that remotely resembles the acid-soaked pop angst of IARB.



Unfortunately, even these songs are slightly hindered by Max's lyrics, which are by far the worst they've ever been. There's hardly a glimpse of his real talent on here, and when it finally does show up he's quick to fuck it up with something absolutely awful. For example, Burn A Miracle's opening is cringe worthy, but then we get treated to this



"I once courted a boy

He looked a lot like me

But his eyelids were destroyed

And his pupils

Kept sucking on

Data files like noodles



He pleasured himself to the music

Of well-dressed, inbred college students

As his girlfriend starved on the alter

To his blog of the sickening things he would call her



But now I’m coming alive

And like a weed through fields of

Placid posies thrive

Spewing glory, all draped in guts and their sense of a story



I need a song meant to rally the devils

Who dance on fields of brilliant treble

I need to ask you children a question

Do you really wanna stand stiff, at attention?"



In my opinion these lyrics are, relative to the rest of the album, pretty strong, now, IMMEDIATELY AFTER we get this;



"(No!)

Do you want it?

Do you need it?

Do you feel it?

Do you want it? (No!)

Do you see it?

Believe it

Do you, do you, do you want it?"



This is shit, it's terrible, it's trash. I cringe every time I hear it, and there's something like that on almost every song. Cut a few lines out of these songs, replace the bad songs with the best Painful Splits material (spruced up for a full band), and I could easily see myself enjoying this.



But no.

Album Rating: 3.0

realized that this isnt nearly as bad as in the unlikely event so i had to bump my rating