Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

Sparrow is fine, don't really get the hate for it

Album Rating: 3.0

Same. I think it's a fine ol' song.

Album Rating: 4.5

It has good moments but a little too repetitive. It falls somewhere close to the middle for me.



Also I know we’re off this subject now, but Change is so similar to Alcove by Pinegrove (even some of the melodies)

who the fuck are pinegrove

Album Rating: 4.5

WHAT'S IT GONNA TAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYK

Album Rating: 3.0

Gonna go to the Pinegrove show. They didn't know about all the weird stuff so they just left it.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

spud is actually a neat little song, far better than the boring stretch before the end

Album Rating: 3.0

Little Things is kind of cool, Flower of Blood too

Hmm...

Album Rating: 4.5

The worst song on this is still like a 3.8/5, if there’s anyone else here who genuinely enjoys every song please stand up

Album Rating: 4.5

Demon I saw that edit. Your list will only continue to grow, my friend. Wait till you hear the fuzzy guitar solo/riff/thing in Simulation Swarm

Album Rating: 3.0

I just don't get the 'countryfied' stuff, REALLY don't. In fact anything hinting at that side of their sound I'm struggling with, but the slower cuts in that realm are at least tolerable (albeit underwhelming).

If I could edit this down to it's better parts, then maybe I could learn to appreciate it more. I'll probably just start skipping a bunch of tracks and concentrate on ones that are growing / might grow on me further.

Album Rating: 3.0

I like their grounded, alt-country music. They're good musicians and they play off each other well. Those songs with the twang suit their sort of fuzzy and roomy production.

Album Rating: 5.0

I mean the intention of 'Sparrow' is to be like some religious incantation type deal, it isn't trying to be Yngwie Malmsteen

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah it's just not my thing Joe, I can't hope to dissect / pick out inadequacies in any way really. I'm sure it's very competently executed here. It's not an area I'm well-versed in, so maybe there's something there for me at a point in the not so distant future, but right now I just find it instinctively unappealing.

Album Rating: 3.0

I feel you, buddy. It's just one of those aesthetic things. Psychoacuoustics and all that. We all have our own musical barriers - sounds that our ears prefer to avoid.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

"The worst song on this is still like a 3.8/5, if there’s anyone else here who genuinely enjoys every song please stand up"



Right here

The hate for Sparrow and Blue Lightning in the last few pages makes no sense to me

I'd say the worst songs are 12,000 Lines and Wake Me Up to Drive, but they're still very good

Album Rating: 4.5

Hate for any of these songs makes little sense to me. I understand how Spud could be off-putting, but it's having such a good time that I'm won over by it. And yeah, if you don't like country leanings, then those songs will be tough to swallow.



As for me and my house, I'm still in awe that the very same band wrote Spud, Little Things, Blurred View, and Simulation Swarm, and not only that, but put them all on the very same album and it stays cohesive enough.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

One peculiar organism aren't we all

Together

Album Rating: 4.5

“ I mean the intention of 'Sparrow' is to be like some religious incantation type deal”

Not saying you’re wrong, because I have no fucking clue, but how do you know that’s the intention?

I love Wake Me Up very much, it's one of the best here